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  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    An Israeli-American teenager was indicted in Israel on Monday on allegations he made thousands of hoax bomb calls, some targeting U.S. Jewish community centers, and earned $240,000 by offering to phone in threats against schools, hospitals and planes. The arrest of the suspect, who is Jewish, in Israel on March 23 drew headlines when he was identified by police as having been behind bomb threats against the centers in the United States that had raised fears of a surge in anti-Semitism.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-indicts-u-israeli-teen-over-bomb-threats-124544464.html

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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        2 days ago

        This is from 2017 but there have been other cases like these. I still remember the sentiment back then:

        well even if this was fake, we know there is a lot of semetism out there, so he is still doing public a service to draw attention to it.