spike in antisemitism facing jews in the uk. you may find some of the language in this programme offensive. i m tom, and i m a bbc journalist who also happens to be british and jewish. he s bleep jewish. i am proud of who i am, but the past year has been complicated and sometimes frightening. one of them came up the driveway there and started attacking me. in the first six months of 2021 there was a record spike in anti semitism. from controversy around the middle east to conspiracy theories and the toxic environment of social media, manyjewish people are questioning how safe it is to express who they are. and i was like, i mjewish. and i said i m black and jewish and i can tell you that is not the case. i want to find out what is going on, and i m starting in burnley, where ashley was the victim of an extreme example of anti semitism. hi there. good afternoon. how are you doing? nice to meet you. this is your granddad. yeah, the smart one on the stairs is me. in terms of you
are questioning how safe it is to express who they are. and i was like, i mjewish. and i said i m black and jewish and i can tell you that is not the case. i want to find out what is going on, and i m starting in burnley, where ashley was the victim of an extreme example of anti semitism. hi there. good afternoon. how are you doing? nice to meet you. this is your granddad. yeah, the smart one on the stairs is me. in terms of yourjewish heritage, which side what s yourjewish heritage? conversion. and when did you convert? 16. what made you feel a connection tojudaism? it was a deep interest in it and they were so welcoming. when did you first start wearing traditional jewish garb? when i first started converting. did you start getting unwanted attention? yeah, quite a bit. ..from that point? yeah, people kept asking me personal questions like have you been circumcised and all that. overall, presenting as someone who is visiblyjewish, has that brought more problems with it th
journalist who also happens to be british and jewish. (bleep) jewish. i am proud of who i am, but the past year has been complicated and sometimes frightening. one of them came up the driveway there and started attacking me. in the first six months of 2021 there was a record spike in anti semitism. from controversy around the middle east to conspiracy theories and the toxic environment of social media, manyjewish people are questioning how safe it is to express who they are. and i was like, i mjewish. and i said i m black and jewish and i can tell you that is not the case. i want to find out what is going on, and i m starting in burnley where ashley was the victim of an extreme example of anti semitism. hi there. good afternoon. how are you doing? nice to meet you. this is your granddad. yeah, the smart one on the stairs is me. in terms of yourjewish heritage, which side what s yourjewish heritage? conversion. and when did you convert? 16. what made you feel a connection to
bahamas. spectacle, the world has ever seen. island get away turns disaster. it became very barbaric. jesse: what was supposed to be the can t miss party of the millennium turned out to be a catastrophe. the models that were promised never showed up. the gourmet food they advertised turned out to be something from a school cafeteria. and things got so bad the party s organizer even ended up in jail. but p.r. scams like this oh, they have been around. new coke was hailed as the future of soda. and was going to take the beverage world by storm in the 1980s. well, that didn t work. just a few months later, they were back to the classic. and how about the segway? once billed as most revolutionary change to transportation since the horse and buggy became nothing more than a punch line in bad movies. how is that? is that valid enough for you? [laughter] that was pretty valid, huh? jesse: most of these marketing failures have little consequence. most of the wrong people
much more to come on that. the white house struggling to articulate its response to the surge of violence on american streets. just yesterday nbc a man was shot and killed during rush now coming off a year where more than 16 cities set new records for homicide. bill: jen psaki doing damage control arguing that critics of a liberal prosecutor were living in an alternate universe. she defended that yesterday. in the american rescue plan there was additional funding to support local cops program. every single republican voted against. i said in that interview i know they don t like it when we call them out. i ll keep calling it out because it s a fact. dana: we ll talk to jason chafe neither a moment. let s go to washington alexandria is standing by with the latest there. it has been the tone of the administration and officials that struck a cord with those facing crime. jen psaki said in that interview about crime coverage that took place last week. take a listen. j