extra vigilant because a neo-nazi group has declared saturday as a, quote, bit of hate. they are encouraging members and like-minded and modules to engage in acts of vandalism, like flyering and posting the all this comes one week after a suspect in los angeles was arrested for shooting to jewish man as they left religious services. the police have a laundry list of really disgusting antisemitic messages that the alleged shooter sent in the years leading up to the attack. i am not going to repeat them here, but the one that is worth noting is that at one point, the suspect texted a classmate and image of this antisemitic flyer, one that says every single aspect of the covid agenda is jewish. that is the same style of antisemitic flyer we saw distributed across the country just this weekend. joining me now, is lauren segel, vice president of the anti-defamation league on antisemitism. thank you for joining me tonight. so how do you make sense of
neo-nazi group has declared saturday as a, quote, day of hate. they re encouraging their members and like minded individuals to engage in anti-semitic acts of vandalism like flyering and posting about it online to grow their following. and all this comes one week after a suspect in los angeles was arrested for shooting two jewish men as they left religious services. and the police have a long list of anti-semitic messages they sent up in the to years leading up to the attack. one worth noting is at 1 point the suspect texted a classmate the image of this anti-semitic flyer, one that says every single aspect of the covid agenda is jewish. that is the same type of anti-semitic flyer we saw distributed across the country just this weekend. thanks for joining me tonight. so how do we make sense of this? let s start first with what
which is to make sure we ensure the health of the american public. if they want to play political games, and almost become ludicrous, they are so preposterous. i think anybody that pays attention to it, that thinks about it and gives it some thought, realizes, a, it s politically motivated, and, b it s so politically motivated, it s almost ludicrous. i understand what you are saying, but it seems like these dark forces of racism and antisemitism and anti-vax and arch conservative ideology arc folding into themselves around this covid issue. i think this past weekend, beverly hills police in california had to look into antisemitic flyers that were distributed around beverly hills, listing cdc officials who have jewish last names saying, every single aspect of the covid agenda is jewish. that worries me as an american citizen, that worries me as someone who believes in the work you have been doing, and
politically motivated, and, b so ridiculous, it is almost ludicrous. i understand what you are saying, but it seems like these dark forces of racism and antisemitism and anti-vax and arch conservative ideology are folding into themselves around this covid issue. i think this past weekend, beverly hills police in california had to look into antisemitic flyers that were distributed around beverly hills, listing cdc officials who have jewish last names saying, every single aspect of the covid agenda is jewish. that worries me as an american citizen, that worries me as someone who believes in the work you have been doing, and sees it as essential to public health. does it worry you? and does it concern you that this vitriol has grown and has reached tentacles into other poisonous areas of american politics? i think you have a very
california had to look into anti-semitic fliers that were distributed around beverly hills listing cdc officials who have jewish last names saying every single aspect of the covid agenda is jewish. that worries me as an american. that worries me as someone who believes in the work that you re doing and sees it as essential to public health. does it worry you, and does it concern you that this vitriol has grown and has reached tentacles into other sort of pointous areas of american politics? right. i think you have a very important point there, alex, that has worried me much, much more so than personal attacks on me. it s the things you brought out there, the complete denial of reality, the normalization of untruths, where there s so much lying going on over there, that people accept it as being part of the norm, and i think if