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
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 nupalt 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, a formal complaint was filed on behalf of blotner and another student with the u.s. education s office of civil rights. the universities have an obligation to make sure all of their students have equal access to all of those educational opportunities. reporter: suny nupalts declined to speak with us on camera and the students who cassie says kicked her out of the club did not respond to multiple requests for comment. in a text with blotner claimed they are not anti-semitic.
organization and tries to educate fellow liberals to prevent so-called anti-zionism from devolving into anti-semitism. one can criticize israeli policy. one can even make criticisms that are very hard for many jews to hear or that one doesn t agree with. when it crosses the line into anti-semitism, is when you, either use classic anti-semitic tropes, things like jews having too much power, zionists controlling the world, jews wanting money, or when you hear things like, well, today s jews aren t the real jews. they were just descended from european converts. that s anti-semitism. reporter: harassment that she experienced at suny nupalt is part of a trend, rising anti-semitism in various forms