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Feds arrest Michigan man who plotted to kill Jewish elected officials in the state

The FBI coordinated with local authorities in mid-February to arrest a heavily armed man who had threatened on social media to kill all Jewish elected officials in Michigan, according to a recently unsealed criminal case.

The man appears to have been a former employee of the University of Michigan.

Jack Eugene Carpenter III, a resident of Tipton, MI, and a former employee of the University of Michigan, tweeted on Feb. 17 that he was “heading back to Michigan now threatening to carry out the punishment of death to anyone that is jewish in the Michigan govt if they don’t leave, or confess,” according to the FBI’s affidavit.

There are several prominent Jewish elected officials in the state, including Attorney General Dana Nessel, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and a handful of state senators and representatives. In a tweet, Nessel said the FBI had confirmed she was one of Carpenter’s targets.

Carpenter has been charged with transmitting an interstate threat, for which he could receive up to five years in federal prison. He was in Texas when he made the tweets, the FBI said. “Any Jewish person holding a public office on my land after that time is subject to immediate punishment for their participation in an unlawful war of aggression using a biological weapon against me,” he wrote in an apparent reference to the covid vaccine.

Carpenter further said he would “grant a brief reprieve to any Zionist Christian or Zionist Jew” who wished “to return to the country to which you actually owe allegiance.”

Israeli raises over $400,000 for victims of settler riot in Huwara

An Orthodox Jew and Israeli left-wing political activist has raised more than $400,000 for victims of a recent settler riot in a Palestinian West Bank town.

Yair Fink, a former Labor Party candidate known by the nickname Yaya, launched a crowdfunding campaign for the residents of Huwara, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank where hundreds of settlers rampaged on Feb. 26, burning dozens of cars and buildings, and injuring dozens of residents. One Palestinian was killed in the riots in a town to Huwara’s south. The riots came after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli brothers who were traveling through the village.

In his fundraising appeal, Fink mourned the murder of the brothers, Hillel and Yigal Yaniv, and then wrote, “Even in our place of deep rage and sorrow, we must never lose our humanity. That is not our Judaism.”

Fink, a major in the army reserves, told Haaretz that he is coordinating with the army to make sure the money reaches only victims and not anyone associated with terrorist organizations. “In the past year, I served 50 days in the military reserves to protect Israelis from terrorists,” he wrote. “This initiative is my service as a civilian.”

Fink filled his Twitter feed with screenshots from among the hundreds of attacks and death threats he said he is receiving on his WhatsApp account. He also posted positive feedback: “In my name and the name of my religious Zionist friends, we wanted to send strength to your activism these days, and especially to your initiative to raise money for the victims of the shocking rioting in Huwara.”

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