The centers threatened on Monday were in Albuquerque; Birmingham, Ala.; Buffalo; Chicago; Cleveland; Houston; Milwaukee; Nashville; St. Paul; Tampa, Fla.; and Tulsa, Okla. Like the earlier threats, they were deemed hoaxes,
but not before several of the centers were evacuated as a precaution.
“The president has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”
Also on Monday, the police in University City, Mo., near St. Louis, were investigating vandalism
at a Jewish cemetery where dozens of headstones were damaged, according to reports
“Since the beginning of this year, we’ve seen four waves of these threats — we’ve never seen
that before,” said David Posner, the director of strategic performance at the JCC Association of North America.
The president responded angrily, saying the question was “insulting” and that he was the “least anti-Semitic person in the world.”
In addition to Ms. Trump’s statement, the Trump administration addressed the issue more directly on Monday.
“Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of
individual freedom,” Lindsay Walters, the White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement.