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The snaffling of a (Jewish) telephone terrorist

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Kaydar

cr: Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

Published: 25 March 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Israeli-American teen Michael Kaydar is accused of making hundreds of threatening calls to Jewish organisations in the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Slip-up snared a telephone terrorist – Kevin Poulsen – The Daily Beast 24.03.17
An Israeli teen accused of making more than 100 bomb threats in the US outran the FBI for months, using Bitcoin and more to stay hidden. Then he made a mistake.

WATCH: Kaydar’s defence attorney Galit Bash – Haaretz/YouTube [2:09]

And see: The dangers of blaming Trump for antisemitism – Peter Beinart – The Atlantic 24.03.17
The arrest of an Israeli American for making bomb threats points to the flaws in the narrative that many Jews have constructed about President Donald Trump and his supporters.

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