Following the most recent round of bomb threats against Jewish community centers on Monday, the head of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect said that President Donald Trump is at least partly to blame due to the nationalistic thread that runs through his administration in addition to his failure to explicitly condemn the hateful acts.

In the fifth wave of such threats this year, more than 20 Jewish community centers and day schools received threatening phone calls in Alabama, North Carolina, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Virginia, and Delaware on Monday.

According to the Huffington Post tally, “there have now been more than 160 bomb threats made to over 60 Jewish community centers since January,” in addition to the recent desecration of two Jewish cemeteries.

And despite the wave of antisemitic violence and threats, Trump has only offered vague condemnation while at the same time elevating individuals and rhetoric seen by many as divisive and inflammatory.

In a sharply worded statement on Monday, Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center, said: “Mr. President, it doesn’t matter whether you think you are personally responsible for the continued acts of hate against Jews, including today’s latest bomb threats. Rightly or wrongly, the most vicious antisemites in America are looking at you and your administration as a nationalistic movement granting them permission to attack Jews, Jewish institutions, and sacred Jewish sites.”

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