started running towards the table and asking indiscriminately, who s jewish? passions run high. that s okay. that s human. what is not okay is to take that out on innocent people, on groups of folk who s are dining because of who they are. reporter: in london, four men were arrested after anti-semitic slogans were shouted from a pro-palestinian convoy a week ago. one of the things that was always amazing to jews in western europe was that in the united states, jews could be visibly jewish. i m now having american jews tell me this, that they re afraid to walk outside wearing a kippah, or to wear a jewish star necklace or just be visibly identifiable as jewish. like that s chilling. reporter: nick watt, cnn, los angeles. nick, thank you so much for that report. let s bring in michael g. masters, the national director and ceo of the secure community network that coordinates security for jewish institutions across the country. michael, thanks for joining.
new this is bin this is the status quo like it that it has been it s been like that for years and decades this is nothing new sadly. the old story about not being like able to walk on the streets with the keep our show and i know that i know that story by heart because every friday every saturday i go to school and every friday and every saturday when i leave the premises of the synagogue and i have male friends sort of close by i check of their wearing a kippah and if they are i tell them because we all know that it s just super dangerous to leave this in the premises of the synagogue wearing a keep out in the open so that is one response to that question the other responses like of course is dangerous here. it s dangerous. to sort of live openly as a jew i don t wear a keep i don t wear star of david so i m like i m not obvious i m ok also i refuse
not being like able to walk on the streets with a keep our showing i know that i know that story by heart because every friday every saturday i go to school and every friday and every saturday when i leave the premises of the synagogue and i have male friends sort of close by i check of their wearing a kippah and if they are i tell them because we all know that it s just super dangerous to leave this in the premises of the synagogue wearing a keep out in the open so that is one response to that question the other responses like of course is dangerous here. is dangerous. to sort of live openly as a jew i don t wear a keep i don t wear a star of david so i m like i m not obvious i m ok also i refuse to be scared that s another another perspective but of course it s dangerous and everyone knows but nothing s happening well you re definitely a courageous person for coming in to talk about it and sharing so much with this
a skull cap known as a kippah in public message jewish man who feels he has to hide his cap whenever he goes out and. david perle wears a skull cap and a prayer as part of everyday life but when he goes outside he puts the tassel in a pocket and he hides the skull cap with a hat. david his wife and children have lived in berlin for 5 years after spending some time in israel there are many things you can t take for granted anymore he s experienced too much hostility for my holster sometimes is a traffic jam on the street where i live and one time 3 arabic looking men got out of a car and they started spitting at me and harassing me saying you dirty jew who stab you today. his experience is far from unusual police to test excess so that the number of anti-semitic crimes in germany rose from 1504 in 2017 to
in launch a mom says he will never conceal the fact that he s jewish despite the dangers loser make a fugitive i ve never hidden the fact that i m jewish and i won t do that now when i go to the synagogue for sure but i will my kippah and i will continue to do so much social will. but when it came to the question of whether he would let his own children wear a key part in public in line couldn t give us an answer. and now also our last stop pakistan a few women that dare to ride bicycles for fear of being seen as an islamic but one community group is defying the rules chimay in a car and went to meet them and sent us this report from karachi. getting to grips with the first bicycle every sunday morning very much harm it joins her friends at her local cycling club for the eleven year old this is