Secure Community Network, credited with thwarting threats to synagogues in New York, says the University of Arizona ignored warnings before an attacker killed a professor he thought Jewish
“Professor Thomas Meixner lost his life because antisemitism is not being taken seriously enough,” Michael Masters, the CEO of the Secure Community Network, wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Arizona Republic. The assailant’s explicitly antisemitic threats should have been a red flag The assailant, in one text to a teacher wished “death to all Jews.”
“Too often reported violent antisemitic threats like these are dismissed as a byproduct of poor mental health and are not treated with necessary precautions,” Masters wrote. “More could and should have been done to prevent a senseless murder.”
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