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March 24, 2017

What the Arrest of an Israeli Teenager Does—and Doesn’t—Say about the Threat of Anti-Semitism

The ADL needs to clean house.

Yesterday, Israeli police working in cooperation with U.S. law enforcement arrested a nineteen-year-old dual Israeli-American citizen for making dozens of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. The young man has reportedly suffered from a brain tumor for several years, which may have affected his behavior. David Bernstein makes sense of this unexpected discovery in light of some of the more overwrought reactions to the recent wave of threats:

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