New York synagogues, museum got fake bomb threats, officials say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

May 4, 2024 9:23 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


May 4 (Reuters) - At least three synagogues and a museum in New York received bomb threats on Saturday but none were deemed credible by the New York Police Department, a city official and police said.

Manhattan Borough President Mark D. Levine said on X the synagogue bomb threats were "a clear hate crime, and part of a growing trend of 'swatting' incidents targeting Jewish institutions." "This is a clear effort to sow fear in the Jewish community. Cannot be accepted," he said.

Antisemitic incidents of assault, vandalism and harassment in the U.S. more than doubled last year to a record high as anti-Jewish sentiment spiked after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report last month.

A police spokesperson said a number of threats were received on Saturday, including an emailed bomb threat to the Brooklyn Museum and one to a synagogue in Brooklyn Heights, with no evidence of any explosive device detected.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-officials-say-manhattan-synagogues-got-fake-bomb-threats-2024-05-05/

[Roy Rolling]

1. Not just threats.....

Anonymous threats. How can these clowns remain hidden in 2024? There must be something to identify the culprits who convey these mostly baseless threats.

For Gawd’s sake, what about Caller ID at least? 😜

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "For Gawd's sake, what about Caller ID at least?"

Caller IDs can easily be spoofed when using VoIP (Voice Over IP) over the internet.

[NanaCat]

3. I blame the idiotic cop shows on telly

For how Americans don't understand that the bad guys have quite sophisticated evasion methods, and there aren't Penelope Garcias sitting in every LEO office of the country, able to track down every bad guy with her mad computer skillz.