Unless You Count Indifference as a Problem...

America does not have an anti-Semitic problem.

JERUSALEM — The police on Thursday arrested an Israeli teenager who holds American citizenship in connection with scores of threats to Jewish institutions, including dozens of community centers in the United States, law enforcement officials said. 

A spokesman for the police here, Micky Rosenfeld, said the suspect, from the Ashkelon area in southern Israel, had also made threats to institutions in Australia and New Zealand, as well as at least one commercial airline flight, forcing an emergency landing. 

“This is the guy we are talking about,” Mr. Rosenfeld said. The authorities did not immediately identify the teenager, who they said was Jewish and 19. Other reports put his age at 18. He was expected to appear in court later Thursday. His motives were not immediately clear, and he was being questioned by the international investigations unit of the Israeli police.

I'll stand by that assessment of what I know of modern  Middle America.  (Remember:  I knew Trump would win too. No polls or twisted data needed. Just everyday life experience.  Don't discount that...)

ADDED:  The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself.

In case you missed it, it turns out that many of the Jewish tombstones reported kicked over in Jewish cemeteries had fallen earlier, but nobody noticed until the fear factor of anti-Semitism was introduced, after President Trump's election.

The stone and dozens like it, no longer standing, were lying flat on the grass. The police were investigating whether someone had climbed the fence and knocked them over.

If true, it would have been a crime that amounts to much more than simple vandalism. Washington is a large and predominantly Jewish cemetery, and many of its headstones bear Hebrew script. The discovery of those fallen stones thrust the cemetery squarely into the spotlight during a rise in anti-Semitic crimes across New York City and the country. Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed those (alleged) crimes last week.

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Then, as quickly as it began, the investigation ended.

“No evidence of vandalism,” the police said in a statement. ...

Upon closer inspection, dozens of fallen headstones bore environmental hints that they had been down for some time, with thin layers of dried grass and dirt in their exposed crevices. Many had vines snaking up their sides or across the bare bases. A 48-year-old woman’s 1911 headstone, marked “Gone but Not Forgotten,” had a tangle of vines between its new resting place and the base from which it fell. ...

“Those vines had to have grown last year,” Captain Molinari said. It appeared impossible that the stone could have fallen in recent weeks or even months. ..

The police interviewed the cemetery’s managers. Dominick Tarantino, 80, the superintendent, said on Wednesday that he did not suspect vandals. ...

Captain Molinari said that large delivery trucks use the alley alongside the fence to make deliveries to Franklin D. Roosevelt High School opposite the cemetery, which might partly explain why so many stones had fallen in that area.

“A truck going by three feet away from these stones could cause enough vibration to topple a 110-year-old stone,” he said. He planned to return to the cemetery with Google satellite images that show which stones were already down on past dates.