everyone inside in an instant. the far left is like climate change. slowly but surely the temperature is rising. some people deny it. then some people say we can adapt to it. but suddenly it reaches the point, the temperatures become so inhospitable that people can no longer live there. reporter: at suny suny new paltz blotner s situation grew srs when a friend saw threatening posts seemingly directed at her on the social media platform yik yak. people were saying if you see the zionist spit on her. he said he saw death threats. and i called my dad and he came and he picked me up at like 3:00 in the morning. reporter: she no longer felt safe going to classes. the president of suny new paltz did send this e-mail to the campus community condemning anti-semitism in its many forms but for blotner it wasn t enough. in june lewin filed a formal
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
we saw a spike during covid. our duty desk started registering a significant increase in proliferation of anti-semitism in the online space. reporter: that desk has never been seen on national television until now. what you re looking at here, all of those blue dots represent a jewish facility. and then the red panels represent potential risk events. where there is a congruence of the risk alert and the institution that s where we re getting an alert and that s where our team of analysts will start to go to work. we work with them day in and out, really 24/7. what does their command center do that the fbi can t? they give us a different flow of information that we might not otherwise have. this gives you a sense of what they re pulling. reporter: masters showed us an example of a potential attack they prevented. what this person is describing
even before what happened here. i did it before. but now it s vigilance. okay, folks. exercise over. but there needs to be another solution. what is it? how do we stop this rise in anti-semitism? understanding, recognition, condemnation and action. it s to act on it, to educate. the nazis came into our house and proceeded to break everything we owned. it s something holocaust survivor ruthsteinfeld now dedicates her life to. it is all we can do. we can teach people. she tells her story frequently to students. forgive, accept, but talk about it. it s so important for us to teach it to other people for the sole reason of it should never
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 think twice about welcoming him in. when i opened the door to just offer a word, he asked if we had a night shelter. so i let him in. i got him some tea. reporter: rabbi citron walker then began the sabbath service on zoom, with three congregants there in person. my back was turned away from the congregation.