Regardless of politics we can all agree that in the days and weeks since both the election and inauguration, there has been a rise in terror attacks and threats of all kinds.

This year alone there have been 69 reported instances in 54 Jewish Community Centers spread across 27 states.

This dramatic rise in threats and attacks is shocking and difficult to confront.

These threats have been directed at JCC’s in New York, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, New Mexico and Tennessee.

Even though these specific bomb threats did turn out to just be threats, according to ADL, the number of actual anti-semitic attacks on American college campuses have nearly doubled.

Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, which is the security network for the Jewish Federations of North America, told CNN “[he’s] been in the business for 20-plus years, and this is unprecedented.”

Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to say, “We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers.”

Several sources from JCC’s that have been threatened said that the FBI is looking into these threats as “hate crimes.”

America is a land of prosperity. It is the home of the American Dream and a place people all around the world look to as the forward thinking country.

How can we hold this image of our country as true, if people are being targeted for something as simply as their religion?

America cannot stand for such hatred, and cannot be seen so as to condone it.

During President Trump’s interview with Netanyahu, President Trump was asked by Domenico Montanaro, “what do you say to those among the Jewish community in the states and in Israel and maybe around the world who believe and feel that your administration is playing with xenophobia and maybe racist tones?”

For some reason President Trump responded, “Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, very honored by the victory that we had — 306 electoral college votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right? There was no way to 221, but then they said there’s no way to 270. And there’s tremendous enthusiasm out there.”

This response was completely out of nowhere. This is not the question that President Trump was asked, and yet somehow, to President Trump, “xenophobia and maybe racist tones?” mean the same thing as electoral votes.

In a another Press Conference the week prior, President Trump was asked about “an uptick in anti-Semitism and how the government is planning to take care of it” and simply responded telling the reporter to “sit down.” President Trump also labeled the reporter a liar and said “welcome to the world of the media.”

Earlier this year, the alt-right conference in Washington, D.C. was commenced with white nationalists acknowledging President Trump with a Nazi salute.

Also controversially, in President Trump’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on January 27, he did not mention Jews. Obviously, the Jewish people were largely targeted by the Nazi’s and the fact that a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech did not mention them is quite shocking.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted labelling the speech as “Puzzling and troubling.”

It is possible to excuse this by saying that he did not mention any targeted group by name; however, many Jewish people were outraged by this address.

Possibly in a direct response to people criticizing his earlier speech, on Thursday, President Trump stated in a Press Conference that the threats were “horrible, painful” and that they are a “very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”

The time we are living in is full of terror attacks and intolerance. Instead of partaking in the hatred by spreading rumors and making assumptions, we should bond together to ensure that this does not continue.

The Jewish people have faced persecution in the past. Although we are not even close to returning to the Nazi regime, it is important for us to bond together and protect what we have created before anything can be done to take it away from us.

At this time we need a strong President to unify our country and put an end to these perpetual hateful attacks.