they re the targets of more than 60% of religious hate crimes reported in this country. since october, jewish day schools have closed or had to hire extra security. synagogues have gone into lockdown and college campuses in particular have seen a surge in antisemitic incidents including assaults. over the next hour, dana bash explores the roots of antisemitism in america and how they ve spread. you ll hear from some on how they ve started higding their jewish identity in public out of fear for their safety. sunday, october 29th in southern russia. barely three weeks after the october 7th attack on israel by hamas. deadliest day for jews since the h holocaust. an angry mob rushed a plane that jujust arrrrived in tel aviv.. theyey were e hunting fofor jew. they weweren t sayiying give israelis, which would have been terrible anyway. that was playing all over antisemitism. she s the u.s. state department s s special envoy to monitor r antitisemitism. she was sworn in in 20
Be noted endorsed donald trump for president, they did not like that criticism against president trump and that column and they responded the following day by making up some fake tweets that they attributed to mr. obeidallah and published those online which made it look like mr. obeldallah was actually a terrorist, these fake tweets where he appeared to be taking credit for various violent terrorist attacks around the globe using this false information they put online. they then directed white supremacist trolls and neo nazis arountd wor around the world to go get mr. obeidallah and threaten him. you can t necessarily do that. in june a federal judge handed down a $4.1 million judgment against the daily stormer, that neo nazi website and the guy who runs it ordering the webb site and publisher to pay
Rejects. this is not the first time or the second time or the third time that king has made racist remarks. in 2017 he said we can t restore our civilization with someone else s babies talking about immigrants. that prompted a neo nazi website to say king is basically an open white nationalist. will he be censured by his party? good morning. is this the line? i hope so. they ought to censure him and take him off of committee assignments. i strongly supported the comments that leader mccarthy and the other congressional leadership made. they need to hold this guy accountable. i think they may need to support a primary opponent for him in
Followed by them if we win. showing jews being led to their death. they re begging their followers to go out and find ways to get republicans in office because they believe it will be easier for these policies to sail through. it was a big day yesterday. reporter: when president trump celebrated the senate victory, so did white supremacists. this changed history, neo nazi andrew england said on his site, the daily stormer, the most widely read neo nazi website in america. this is a race war, period. they also reveled in the re-election of congressman steve king who has a history of making racist remarks. like in this 2017 anti-immigration tweet saying, we can t restore our civilization with somebody else s babies. or his unsubstantiated claim about immigrants crossing the u.s./mexico border. they weigh 130 pounds and they ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. reporter: if last night was a referendum on stev