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Michigan man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Jewish elected officials, including the AG [1]
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Date: 2023-03-02
Nessel tweeted Thursday morning that she was one of Carpenter’s targets.
“The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter. It is my sincere hope that the federal authorities take this offense just as seriously as my Hate Crimes & Domestic Terrorism Unit takes plots to murder elected officials.”
x The FBI has confirmed I was a target of the heavily armed defendant in this matter. It is my sincere hope that the federal authorities take this offense just as seriously as my Hate Crimes &
Domestic Terrorism Unit takes plots to murder elected officials.
https://t.co/RsUY5xMrxx — Dana Nessel (@dananessel) March 2, 2023
According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Carpenter was a former employee of the University of Michigan. He claimed on Twitter that he “was fired for refusing to take experimental medication.” It is assumed he’s referring to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Carpenter’s Twitter feed was rife with conspiratorial rants.
He claimed that if he were arrested, he would “get the lawyer removed due to conflict of interest because they are Jewish.” He mentions by name Gov. Whitmer, Anthony Fauci, Chris Cuomo, and multiple University of Michigan personnel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the only Jewish figure he mentions is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
Carpenter additionally claimed President Joe Biden was not democratically elected and that he would give “a brief reprieve to any Zionist Christian or Zionist Jew” who wanted “to return to the country to which you actually owe allegiance.”
Michigan has become a home base for violent and extremist groups of late, including the group put on trial for attempting to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The head of that group was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Florida is currently a bastion of antisemitism.
Just last week, a group of neo-Nazis from the Goyim Defense League (GDL) gathered outside of the Chabad of South Orlando and, for hours, harassed members of the Chabad as they drove onto the property, WESH in Orlando reports.
"Leave our country, go back to Israel. You know, where you bomb Palestinian kids?" a GDL protester can be heard screaming in a video widely posted to social media. The Jerusalem Post reports that the person screaming was GDL founder Jon Minadeo.
x “Leave our country go back to Israel”
“Heil hitler” “sir do you think you should be put in an oven”
These “GDL” nazi animals have been terrorizing & targeting Jews & Jewish communities with impunity
Police are refrained from doing anything. This needs to be stopped pic.twitter.com/WGJrt9GZjE — Baruch Sandhaus (@BaruchSandhaus) February 22, 2023
"It was very disturbing. People were traumatized by it," Rabbi Yosef Konikov said. "They were speaking to every individual that was entering and exiting the property. And saying things that you would expect. You know how Nazis in World War II spoke when they were talking to Jews in that era. That spoke with hatred and venom in their eyes."
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