jews are the most targeted religious group in america, says the fbi. all i say is, never again, but guess what? it is again and again and again. the threat level against the jewish community is historic. hate once limited to extremists, fanatics. jews will not replace us! now main stream. this is a plague. there is no question that anti-semitism is being normalized. on city streets, online. we ve seen people live stream their actual attacks. this is disgusting. on college campuses, in politics. it s become a political prop for people on both the right and the left. how did we get here and how do we stop it? they need to be disrupted today. whenever challenged with darkness and evil we will fight back with light. this is a cnn special report. rising hate: anti-semitism in america. january 15th, 2022, was a bitter cold day in colleyville, texas. it was in the 30s in texas. doesn t usually get that cold. so when a visitor knocked on the do
the fbi. all i say is never again. but guess what? it is again and again and again. the threat level against the jewish community is historic. hate once limited to extremists, fanatics. jews will not replace us! now mainstream. this is a plague. there is no question that anti-semitism is being normalized. on city streets, online. we ve seen people livestream their actual attacks. this is disgusting. on college campuses, in politics. it s become a political prop for people on both the right and the left. how did we get here and how do we stop it? they need to be disrupted today. whenever challenged with darkness and evil we will fight back with light. this is a cnn special report. rising hate: anti-semitism in america. january 15th, 2022 was a bitter cold day in colleyville, texas. it was in the 30s in texas. doesn t usually get that cold. so when a visitor knocked on the door of congregation beth israel, rabbi charlie citron walker didn t t
anti-semitism is often actually used as a tool to silence people. these anti-semites orrin siegal runs the antidefamation league s center on extremism. there is a troll army created and you harass somebody until they say uncle. reporter: but ioffe would not cry uncle. the people feel very brave sitting behind their key boards. reporter: she was motivated by her family who fled anti-semitism in the soviet union when she was young. i owed it both to my parents and to my ancestors to not be quiet about it. some of your supporters have viciously attacked this woman julia ioffe with anti-semitic attacks, death threat. reporter: soon after the attacks wolf blitzer interviewed the republican nominee. i don t know anything about that. supposed fans of yours posting these. reporter: when pressed again, this. your message to these fans
happen again. all the more important when less than half the states in the u.s. mandate holocaust education in school. what does it matter that there is an increasing lack of understanding or education about the holocaust? it matters because this is a plague. you ve got to understand how little things grow into bigger things. how people are taught to hate. anti-semitism is often described as the canary in the coal mine. it is an indication of a kind of rot that eventually consumes everything. for generations, many jews responded to anti-semitism by retreating, staying quiet. but those we talked to, even victims of hate say no. do the opposite. we have that friend s crazy uncle who is a blatant racist or anti-semite. and they ll apologize and we ll all roll our eyes and let it go.
including on popular gaming platforms for young children. parents, take note. this was the synagogue. reporter: anti-semitism is rampant in the gaming world says daniel kelly, the director of the center for technology and society at the adl. and this experience you have a swastika and the iron cross here. you also have people who are setting up these kinds of mean craft servers and creating concentration camp re-enactments and doing all sorts of hateful things like going around killing villagers. an age-old trope also re-emerged with covid. the conspiracy theory that jews are responsible for disease. people first said that covid was some bioweapon developed by jews. then they blamed orthodox jewish communities for being singularly responsible for spreading covid.