President Trump Says Antisemitism Is 'Horrible' and 'Has to Stop'
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ASHTON Opinion. Tradition. KUTCHER MCMASTER GOD’S RECOUNTS ON THE TALMUDIC HOLOCAUST NUDGE TALE A2. A9. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 , 2017 | 28 SHEVAT 5777 VOL. XLV NO. 2296 President Trump At Least Ten Jewish Community Says Antisemitism Centers Across Is ‘Horrible’ and US Targeted ‘Has to Stop’ BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY At least ten Jewish community centers across America received telephone bomb threats on Monday, according to media reports. NBC News reported that JCCs in Birmingham, Cleve- land, Chicago, St. Paul, Tampa, Albuquerque, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Buffalo were evacuated. No bombs were found at any of the threatened sites. This marked the fourth spate of concurrent bomb threats issued against JCCs in different parts of the US since the start of 2017. In a statement on Monday, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said, “We are confident that President Donald Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons. BY BARNEY BREEN against Jewish community centers “There is something going on Police tape outside the JCC in Nashville, Tenn., after a recent across the country and the that doesn’t allow it to fully heal,” telephone bomb threat. Photo: YouTube screenshot. -PORTNOY desecration of graves at a Jewish he stated. “Sometimes it gets better Antisemitism is “horrible” and cemetery in St. Louis. and then it busts apart. But we want JCCs around the country are taking the necessary security “has to stop,” US President Donald “The antisemitic threats to have it get very much better, get protections, and that law enforcement officials are making Trump said on Tuesday during targeting our Jewish commu- unified and stay together.” their investigation of these threats a high priority. We look a visit to the National Museum nity and community centers are On Monday, Trump’s to our political leaders at all levels to speak out against such of African American History and horrible and are painful and a very daughter Ivanka tweeted, “America threats directed against Jewish institutions, to make it clear Culture in Washington, DC. sad reminder of the work that still is a nation built on the principle that such actions are unacceptable, and to pledge that they In a statement to the press must be done to root out hate and of religious tolerance. We must will work with law enforcement officials to ensure that those delivered at the museum, Trump prejudice and evil,” Trump said. protect our houses of worship & responsible will be apprehended and punished to the full referred to the recent surge of Earlier on Tuesday, in an NBC religious centers. #JCC” extent of the law.” interview, Trump said antisemi- Also on Monday, the World antisemitism in the US — including Continued on Page A4 tism was “age-old.” a spate of telephone bomb threats Continued on Page A4 Scottish Campus ShabbatCalendar Parshat MISHPATIM Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 5:24pm | Shabbat Ends: 6:24pm פרשת מישפטים Welcomes Torah Scroll P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 , 2017 Opinion. In 2012 Speech, Incoming National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Emphasized Importance of Remembering the Holocaust Good afternoon. in the memorial, knees are weak. The mass It an honor to represent the Maneuver murder of Jews, prisoners of war, homosexuals, BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY Center of Excellence and Fort Benning at this people with certain disabilities, had already NEW YORK opening of the National Infantry Museum begun. But Germany’s colossal genocidal exhibit dedicated to victims of the Holocaust project grew in scale in the beginning of 1942 and in memory of Colonel Aaron Cohn, when the SS took the lead. The criminals soldier, fellow Brave Rifles cavalry trooper, who led the SS quickly determined that mass public servant, example for all of us. shooting, although it would remain a signifi- US President Donald Trump announced Members of the Cohn family, commu- cant element in their “process” did not work on Monday that Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has nity leaders, leaders of the National Infantry with the speed and efficiency they desired. been chosen to serve as his next national security Foundation and the National Infantry They began to use gas vans which they first Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Photo: US Army Public adviser, replacing Michael Flynn, who resigned Museum, fellow soldiers, Fort Benning civilians tried out on Russian prisoners. They then Affairs via Wikimedia Commons. last week less than a month into the job. and family members, distinguished guests: decided to reverse the approach they adopted America. The U.S. Army grew from an army of McMaster, 54, is a 1984 West Point In the Germany of the 1920s and 30s, in the summer of 1941; instead of bringing the 190,000 to an army of almost 8.5 million — a 44 graduate who served overseas in both Iraq and humanity was eroded by xenophobia in general murderers to the victims, they would bring the fold increase. A total of 16 million Americans Afghanistan over the course of a decorated and anti-Semitism in particular – and then in victims to the murderers. Large shipments of served in uniform in WWII; virtually every three-decade military career. the 1940s, gave way completely. The scale of the German Jews began on October 15, 1941. At family had someone in harm’s way, virtually “He is a man of tremendous talent and human toll, the suffering during the holocaust, the Wannsee conference in December of that every American had an emotional investment tremendous experience,” Trump said on is really unimaginable — six million Jews, five year, leaders and bureaucrats of government in our Army. That WWII army of 8.5 million Monday of McMaster. “I watched and read million others systematically murdered. agencies deliberately planned the implemen- existed in a country of about 130 million; by a lot over the last two days. He is highly On a recent trip to Israel, I made my third tation of the program to kill all the Jews of comparison, today we have an army of roughly respected by everybody in the military, and visit to the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial Europe. Their plans included not only all Jews 500,000 in a country of 307 million. we’re very honored to have him.” in Jerusalem. One enters the memorial and is in German-controlled and influenced areas, It is when that American Army, alongside On August 26, 2012, McMaster spoke at immediately gripped by a sense of foreboding. but those — like the ones in England, Spain, British forces crossed the English Channel in the dedication of a new Holocaust exhibit at It is Europe in the early 1930s. Grey granite walls Sweden, and Portugal — which it was assumed June 1944 that the floor at the Yad Vashem the National Infantry Museum at Fort Benning narrow toward the ceiling and squeeze out the would soon also be under Nazi domination. memorial begins to slope upward toward in Georgia. The transcript of his remarks — in light as one walks downward, descending as It was around this time that The United sunlight streaming in through the window at which he talked about the importance of remem- humanity descended during a period when States entered the war after the Japanese the far end of the memorial. bering the Holocaust — was unearthed by The good men did nothing. attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Hitler’s and Nazi Germany’s genocidal Algemeiner on Monday and can be read below: By the time one reaches the lowest point America mobilized. 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