Of Jewish Community leaders. We will bring it to you live when they get underway. And communities in Southern Israel seems to be under relentless fire. Nbc news caught this barrage of rockets in ashkelon, near total darkness, as the sole power plant there has run out of fuel. Israel has been amazing soldiers near the border. The scenes comes out of gaza strip, will be, quote, different to understand and cope with. Ahead, a more devastating stages of wart, Benjamin Netanyahu and benny gantz, have announced an Emergency Government to put it on a wartime footing, even as the recallis are coming to grips with the heinous nature and scope of the Terror Attacks heres what one soldier tells nbc news. I never saw in my life. Its something that we used to imagine as or grandfather and grandfather who grew up in other places. Complicating israels war efforts, the harrowing Hostage Situation. At least 150 men, women, children have been kidnapped by hamas. Hamas is threatening to execute them one
this feels like an amping up. and keep in mind, if you re looking for organizations that will critique israeli policies without being anti-semitic, i ll direct you to adl.org. because we ve done plenty of that. but i think the the vast majority of people who argue about middle east policy, they re not engaging in anti-semitism. and serious critics don t say that they are. but the reality is this conflation that s happening with people with antipathy and violence in their hearts is, i think, what s frightening jews across the political spectrum. i ve heard from people who have said to me, willie, is it safe for me to walk to synagogue this saturday morning? can i send my kids to jewish day school or will they be a target? there s a lot of fear right now, which is why we need people in positions of authority to stand up and speak out without egive kuwaiting or qualifying, and say, clearly, if you re from the political left, that
jewish. throwing bottles at people. this isn t normal. we have been fighting hate over 100 years and seen in the past that tension in the middle east can spawn hate crimes here but i must say from the far right in the last segment talking about something we have tracked, the right wing extremists that stormed the capitol to the radical left with the unhinged claims about the jewish people or state. the community is feeling pressure from both sides. feeling anxious about where do we go from here? many people are going to our website adl.org and reporting the incidents. but it takes everybody, on the left and the right and the center, media, government, law enforcement to work together to push this prejudice back in the corner where it belongs. clint, you know i m coming to