Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter and a convert to Judaism, issued a statement over Twitter on Tuesday (AEDT) calling for “religious tolerance” after a new wave of threats against Jewish community centres.
The tweet was Ivanka Trump’s most vocal foray into a public discussion and was made over an issue her allies say she feels personally.
The message was posted after Trump wrote, and then deleted, an earlier one moments beforehand.
Trump converted to Judaism before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, putting her in a position to be a prominent voice at a moment when a number of anti-Semitic episodes have taken place around the country. Her previous substantive effort in the White House involved convening a women’s business council, an event she helped create, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada visited the president.
On Monday, 11 separate bomb scares were called into Jewish community centres around the country. They were the latest in a string of such threats since the start of the year.