Wellesley temple gets bomb call

By adamg on Sun, 12/17/2023 - 9:45pm

The Swellesley Report reports Temple Beth Elohim got what was determined to be a hoax bomb call this morning.

The Globe reports State Police are investigating similar calls to synagogues across the state.

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Wellesley

Anti-Semitism

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Oh, so that's why all those cops were there

By necturus on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 7:40am.

I was walking past on my way to church, and there was rather a lot of police activity, including cops speaking with a woman who seems to have just got out of a pickup truck in the middle of the street. There was no apparent damage to the truck, so I was wondering what that was all about. Now I know.

Caution

By deselby on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 2:05pm.

Remember, this is in the middle of an world-wide information war, particularly focused on US and European public sentiment.

A large part of what is put out is BS - on all sides.

As I said earlier, it's state-led but decentralized, as in the case of the "Harvard hates Jews" aerial banner.

There have been false-flag hoaxes in the past:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/israeli-teen-michael-kadar...

Did Michael finish his lenient juvenile sentence??

You focus on this, you're not looking at Gaza or the West Bank.

Real terrorists don't make bomb threats - they plant bombs.

So...

By lbb on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 2:48pm.

Real terrorists don't make bomb threats - they plant bombs.

So bomb threats should be ignored? If it was your home, would you do that?

as I've said before

By deselby on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 3:15pm.

I worked in a government office in Boston which used to get regular bomb threats. We would take a walk around the premises and go on with our business.

my point is not that no investigation is needed, but that the bomb threat should not be attributed right now to any point of view in particular and without further evidence should not be attributed to anti-semitism.

Lol

By tblade on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 5:31pm.

Elohim was one of several synagogues to receive bomb threats, and no UU, Baptist, Catholic, or Buddhist houses of worship received bomb threats, but we should not conclude that the threats were antisemitic.

JFC, what a joke.

We need to go deeper

By Mjolnir on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 6:01pm.

If I'm reading his posts right, I think he's implying that the State of Israel is directly or indirectly (through Jewish agents) calling in bomb threats to synagogues so people pay LESS attention to a war going on in Israel and the protests happening locally. The reason for thinking this is that bona fide anti-Semites couldn't or wouldn't make a few phone calls in order to bother and inconvenience Jews.

I read it that way, too.

By jmeltzer on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 7:13am.

Adam?

This

By lbb on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:11am.

If I'm reading his posts right, I think he's implying that the State of Israel is directly or indirectly (through Jewish agents) calling in bomb threats to synagogues so people pay LESS attention to a war going on in Israel and the protests happening locally.

Or some other Jewish group or individuals, possibly for slightly different reasons, but it's all variations of the same canard. That's exactly what the cry of "false flag" means: blaming the victim in the absence of any evidence and in denial of common sense.

Terrorist enabler

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 6:55pm.

Nice try, gaslighter.

Makes us wonder what else you are trying to cover up for.

Half of a broken clock

By lbb on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 10:08am.

my point is not that no investigation is needed, but that the bomb threat should not be attributed right now to any point of view in particular

As long as you're using the word "particular" properly and not as a meaningless emphasis word, I think this is technically correct, in that there are several "points of view" that end up at...

and without further evidence should not be attributed to anti-semitism.

...the same place, which is antisemitism. Antisemitism in the United States today has many noxious roots, many loathsome flavors and many vile perpetrators and smirking apologists, but it all ends up in the same place.

What a bizarre comment.

By Mjolnir on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 4:08pm.

Real terrorists don't make bomb threats - they plant bombs.

Or they call in bomb threats to scare - or terrorize - people based on their membership in a group or community. The most parsimonious explanation for these is an antisemitic bigot. I can find plenty of "false flags" like the Jussie Smollett situation; should one generally assume claims of threats or attacks on Black people are fake because of that?