>> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. ♪ sig heil! >> anti-semitism. the oldest hate. ugly. deadly. and on the rise in america. >> in chicago two synagogues vandalized. >> shooters targeting this jersey city kosher supermarket. >> three victims are shot and killed at two different jewish facilities near kansas city. >> 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 mainstream. >> this is a plague. >> there is no question that anti-semitism is being normalized. >> on city streets, online. >> we've seen people livestream 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 door of congregation beth israel, rabbi charlie citron walker didn't think twice about welcoming him in. >> when i opened the door to just offer a word, he asked if we had a night shelter. so i let him in. i got him some tea. >> reporter: rabbi citron walker then began the sabbath service on zoom, with three congregants there in person. >> my back was turned away from the congregation.

i thought i heard a click, the click of a gun. i went to the back of the room. and that's when he pulled the gun on me. >> and within a few seconds he got up and started yelling, "i've got a bomb." >> reporter: jeff cohen came to pray and became a hostage. >> my phone was sitting next to me. and i quickly dialed 911. >> reporter: people watching the live stream could hear the gunman. >> i'm going to die. i'm going to die at the end of this. all right? >> people need there to be one individual that is holding people hostage inside beth israel congregation. >> reporter: the hostage stand-off lasted for nearly 11 hours. while fbi special agent in charge matthew desarno's team negotiated with the gunman. >> he was demanding the release of a convicted al qaeda terrorist who was housed nearby. >> he believed that coming in here and attacking jews that the

jews controlled everything, so they would make it happen. jews controlled the government, jews controlled the banks, jews controlled the media. he truly believed this. >> it's a prejudice that's rooted in a conspiracy theory. >> reporter: debra lipstadt is widely considered one of the world's foremost experts on anti-semitism. >> anti-semitism has the strange title of the oldest or the longest hatred. hating jews is very convenient. >> why? >> you need someone to blame if there's a plague in your town. you need someone to blame if the economy goes bad. you need someone to blame if the war is lost. >> reporter: jeff coen worried those conspiracy theories might end his life and was able to use his phone to post a message on facebook. >> at cbi, there is a gunman here. he says he has a bomb. remember me. stop hate. a little painful to remember.

a little painful to remember. >> reporter: around 8:00 that night the negotiations deteriorated and the gunman grew agitated. >> do something. okay? >> his demeanor changed. it was much more demanding, with deadlines, ultimatums. that's when i authorized our hostage rescue team to execute a deliberate hostage rescue. >> reporter: and at the exact same moment -- >> for the first time all day he didn't have his hand on the trigger. and so i told the guys to run. >> we ran and we went through that door as fast as we could. >> reporter: and what you're seeing is that escape. the colleyville crisis was just one in an alarming rise of anti-semitic attacks across the united states. >> the threat is serious. >> reporter: you're the deputy director of the fbi. the fact you thought it was

important enough to sit down to talk about anti-semitism in america, what does that say about the threat? >> the threat level against the jewish community is historic. and over the last few years it's been on the rise. >> reporter: are biases toward jews higher than it is towards people of other religions? >> no doubt about that. >> reporter: over the past five years fbi data shows jews have been the victims of hate crimes more often than any other religion. >> in 2021 we tracked the highest number of incidents we've ever seen. >> reporter: this man is the ceo of the antidefamation league, which has been tracking anti-semitic incidents for more than 40 years. >> it's bad in a way we haven't seen since arguably the 1930s. there is no question anti-semitism is being normalized. it's become a political prop for people on both the right and the left. >> irrespective of where it's

coming from, people rely on the same template of charges, whether it's covid-19, whether it's climate change, whatever it might be, the jews are behind it. it would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. >> reporter: why is there this spike right now? >> there's been a rise in divisiveness in this country generally. we're a very convenient scapegoat. >> all my parents wanted to do is protect my sister and i. >> reporter: holocaust survivor ruth steinfeld knows this all too well. >> the holocaust started with words. hitler yelling, screaming how he had to get rid of us. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> and on september 9th, 1942 both my parents were put to death in auschwitz. >> reporter: she was just 13

years old when she and her family were sent to a nazi concentration camp. her mother made the heart-wrenching decision to let a french organization take her and her sister to safety. >> the last time i saw my mom is when she insisted that we get on that bus. and i didn't want to get on the bus. i wanted to stay with her. i have this picture of watching my mother waving good-bye to me from the street when i'm waving and crying. >> reporter: steinfeld lives just a few hours from colleyville. you experienced the kind of hate that no one should. and lost your parents because of it. but you're a proud american. do you see some of that hate bubbling up here? >> absolutely. at first it was just once in a while. now it seems to be in the air,

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melania. so great. >> reporter: as donald trump quickly catapulted from long shot to front-runner in 2016 -- >> it was a great moment. okay? >> reporter: the spotlight shined on his wife. would-be first lady melania trump. >> good evening. isn't he the best? >> at the time nobody really knew who she was. >> reporter: journal julia ioffe was assigned an article on melania trump and traveled to her native slovenia. >> somebody approached my fixer and me and said, you know she has an illegitimate half brother that she doesn't know about. we went to the archives. we found the custody and the child support proceedings. it all checked out. >> reporter: the article posted on april 27th, 2016.

within 24 hours melania trump reacted on facebook, accusing ioffe of having an agenda. >> the problem is that when your husband runs for president everything is fair game. >> so when she says it was a hit job, you say? >> it wasn't a hit job. it was just this is the family. >> reporter: soon after a neo-nazi website posted this. "filthy russian kike julia ioffe attacks empress melania." then "go ahead and send ioffe a tweet." >> i started getting all these calls and stuff on social media and my e-mail and then the photoshops of my face in a gas chamber or my face in an auschwitz mug shot. so many of these people were making overt connections between these anti-semitic actions and speech and their support for donald trump. >> anti-semitism is often actually used as a tool to silence people.

>> these anti-semites -- >> orrin siegal runs the antidefamation league's center on extremism. >> there is a troll army created and you harass somebody until they say uncle. >> reporter: but ioffe would not cry uncle. >> some people feel very brave sitting behind their keyboards. >> reporter: she was motivated by her family, who fled anti-semitism in the soviet union when she was young. >> i owed it both to my parents and to my ancestors to not be quiet about it. >> some of your supporters have viciously attacked this woman julia ioffe with anti-semitic attacks, death threats. >> reporter: soon after the attacks wolf blitzer interviewed the presumptive republican nominee. >> i don't know anything about that. >> but your message -- >> fans of mine? >> supposed fans of your posting these -- >> and when pressed again, this. >> but your message to these fans is? >> i don't have a message to the fans. there is nothing more dishonest than the media.

>> reporter: so his silence was taken how? >> as permission. >> reporter: briton heller is a human rights advocate and a professor who compiles data about online hate. you actually saw data that backed that up. >> yes. we would see the number of attacking tweets on jewish journalists spike. it was the largest spike we saw in our data set. people took that as a green light. >> i've seen press that always tries to say donald trump's silence or his kind of words used is an instruction to do something bad. i don't buy it. >> reporter: jason greenblatt has been one of donald trump's lawyers for decades. >> i have had many, many friends over the years. orthodox. maybe i could get jason greenblatt down here -- >> i worked for him for 23 years and i saw time and time again how he wasn't anti-semitic. >> reporter: he points to trump's actions on israel, moving the embassy to jerusalem

and spearheading the abraham accords. >> israel is a sovereign nation. >> reporter: but what about trump's refusal to condemn anti-semitic attacks on julia ioffe? >> and i heard the article was nasty. >> mm-hmm. i can't explain it. >> reporter: did you feel a special responsibility to go to him when you saw those things happening? >> i did. >> reporter: can you give me an example? >> the david duke thing during the campaign. >> will you uh equivocally condemn david duke and say you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election? >> well, just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke. okay? >> i saw what was happening i guess as a result of jake's interview and i said look, this is what's happening. here is what david duke actually said. do you stand for this? and he said absolutely not. so he dictated a condemnation. >> reporter: why do you think he didn't get it in the moment? >> not everybody knows david duke, as silly as that sounds, but maybe he didn't understand what was being asked of him. very hard to say.

>> the reason why his statements still hit people so hard, it's because pulling that out of him required so much effort. donald trump is complicated. he has a jewish daughter and son-in-law. he has jewish grandchildren. there has never been a president in the history of the republic as personally close to the jewish people as donald trump. and things like the abraham accords, these were really important. and yet at the same time when asked to call out white supremacists -- >> proud boys, stand back and stand by. >> when he stood there days after charlottesville and said -- >> but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. >> the neo-nazis knew exactly what he meant. his attitude, his language. the choices that he made ushered in this hate. >> excuse me. i saw the same pictures as you did.

>> reporter: so jason greenblatt, he argues if you read all of the remarks in that charlottesville press conference he did condemn the neo-nazis and the white supremacists. >> and i'm not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. >> if donald trump convincingly, consistently, clearly called out the extremists and the anti-semites it wouldn't even matter what he said in that moment. >> reporter: the statistics speak volumes. from 2001 until 2015, anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. were declining. then in 2016, a 30% spike. in 2017, a 57% increase. the largest since the adl began tracking this. that summer, the charlottesville riot. >> jews will not replace us. [ chanting ] >> donald trump didn't invent anti-semitism. the thing that made his

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in the back row of the chabad of poway in southern california. it was the last night of passover, april 2019. how close were you to the bullets coming into this sanctuary? >> less than 10 feet away from bullets and shrapnel. >> reporter: morales, a border patrol agent, crawled on the floor to grab a gun he knew the rabbi had hidden in case of emergency. he chased the gunman out of the synagogue, firing at him as he ran to his car to escape. >> he ducked under the steering wheel. and that's when he pressed his foot on the gas pedal and took off. >> reporter: the scene was gruesome. one congregant, lori gilbert kaye, was dead, and three others including an 8-year-old girl injured. minutes after he fled that scene, the gunman called 911 himself. >> i opened fire at a synagogue. i think i killed some people. >> he wanted essentially to be caught. >> reporter: why? >> i think he wanted a forum.

>> reporter: a forum for his anti-semitic rage, says deputy district attorney david grapalon. in a hate-filled, rambling manifesto he wrote that jews, quote, deserve nothing but hell and that he wanted to be the one to, quote, send them there. >> at no time did he ever express any regret for what he did. in fact, in jail one of the deputies found one of his slippers and on the sole of where your heel would be in pencil was a star of david on his heel. >> reporter: he put a star of david on the sole of his shoe so he could step on it. >> yes. >> reporter: the 19-year-old was radicalized online. >> we had hundreds of images he had downloaded from the internet. anything from anti-semitism to celebration of the nazis, hitler. >> reporter: what do you think pushed him over the edge? >> the christchurch shooting. >> police in the city of christchurch responding. >> reporter: responding to an

active shooter at a new zealand mosque who was livestreaming his killing spree and posting his manifesto online. >> it provided the blueprint of how to do it again. this is not outside of the box anymore. this is standard operating procedure for anti-semites and extremists. >> their recruiting is pretty sophisticated. >> reporter: recruitment into the world of hate is something damian patton understands well. >> this is ultimately where i was recruited into gangs. >> reporter: right here. >> right here. >> reporter: it was the 1980s. patton was a runaway, homeless on the streets of los angeles. >> how the skinheads approached me was really with a business card. a business card is reserved for people who are successful, for people who are in business. >> reporter: so you thought they're successful. >> they're successful. >> reporter: i want to be like that. >> exactly. that's how it all started. it had nothing to do with ideology in the beginning. it had everything to do with wanting to be like them and wanting out of my bad situation. >> reporter: he came from a

broken home. a single mom. she was jewish. >> the part that probably resonated with me in their message was i was angry. and so anti-semitism was really saying i was anti- my family. >> reporter: patton became a skinhead. the movement which erupted across the u.s. in the '80s with violent attacks and murders, often targeting jews. he rose in the ranks, becoming a recruiter himself. patton said these days it's easier than ever to lure people in. >> these white supremacists are sitting at home today looking for the vulnerable online. you can be on a thousand street corners at once now and that's the big difference. >> reporter: and there's no escaping it. a recent study showed there was anti-semitism on every social platform. >> part of what they're trying to do to attract people to their hate is to use almost stylistic type of imagery and memes. and so here, hey. look, everybody.

it's the midnight jew crew making hate crimes great again. basically blaming jews for falsely creating anti-semitic incidents to get sympathies essentially. >> reporter: a new tactic, livestreaming confrontation like here when a white supremacist goes after a jewish man. >> many of these viewers are engaging in real time. >> reporter: "watch the jews squirm." >> "watch the jews squirm." >> "f the jews." >> exactly. they are in many cases telling the folks on the ground what they should do. and if you notice, there's a donate button. so the more he curses out a bystander the more money will be given. this is again why it's so concerning, is that we've seen people livestream their actual attacks, their shootings. because they also anticipate that people will watch them go on the extremist journey with them. >> reporter: like the poway shooter did.

the jewish community there is still trying to heal. >> it's kind of there as a reminder and a memory of what happened. >> reporter: to never forget. >> yes. >> reporter: which is why the current rabih baruch goldstein invited us in. the first television media allowed inside the sanctuary since the deadly shooting. >> judaism teaches us that we will continue growing. that whenever challenged with darkness and evil we will fight back with light and kindness and goodness. >> reporter: which is not easy during a deadly pandemic when haters are looking for someone to blame. that when we come back.

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>> we saw a spike during covid. our duty desk started registering a significant increase in proliferation of anti-semitism in the online space. >> reporter: that desk has never been seen on national television until now. >> what you're looking at here, all of those blue dots represent a jewish facility. and then the red panels represent potential risk events. where there is a congruence of the risk alert and the institution that's where we're getting an alert and that's where our team of analysts will start to go to work. >> we work with them day in and out, really 24/7. >> what does their command center do that the fbi can't? >> they give us a different flow of information that we might not otherwise have. >> this gives you a sense of what they're pulling. >> reporter: masters showed us an example of a potential attack they prevented. what this person is describing

in great, gruesome detail is a violent attack against jews. >> "pummeling a pink mist into the air until i hear the police outside." it's vile. they've been doing it since the beginning of time but certainly we've seen an uptick since covid. >> reporter: so did the antidefamation league. >> covid was a perfect storm for prejudice in many ways. what extremists and anti-semites did was try to hack into or jump into zoom calls and make people feel scared. and so this was just using an age-old hatred but a new technology in order to spread that. zoom bombing. so as people were spending more time online, especially younger people, they realized this was an opportunity to reach out in different ways. >> reporter: including on popular gaming platforms for young children. parents, take note.

>> this is the defaced synagogue. >> reporter: anti-semitism is rampant in the gaming world, says daniel kelly, the director of the center for technology and society at the adl. >> in this experience you have a swastika and the iron cross here. you also have people who are setting up these kinds of minecraft servers and creating concentration camp re-enactments and doing all sorts of hateful things like going around killing the villagers. >> an age-old trope also re-emerged with covid. the conspiracy theory that jews are responsible for disease. >> people first said that covid was some bioweapon developed by jews. then they blamed orthodox jewish communities for being singularly responsible for spreading covid. then they claimed after pfizer

and regeneron and other companies were coming up with medical interventions and vaccines the jews were doing it in order to profit off of the virus. >> if covid-19 had happened prior to the internet, people would have made the same charges but they wouldn't have ignited the way they do. >> reporter: and as people came out of isolation it continued to spread offline. flyers left on doorsteps blaming covid on the jews. or well-known people using the holocaust to advance the anti-mask and anti-vaxx cause. >> even in hitler's germany you could cross the alps into switzerland. you could hide in an attic like anne frank did. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. eventually apologized. but the genie was out of the bottle. >> you know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star. they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers. >> the use of the holocaust,

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♪ on the suny new paults campus an hour and a half north of manhattan third-year student kassie blotner felt she fit right in. >> they have a really good political science program that drew me there, and i love the vibes of the town, super progressive as well. >> reporter: but in 2021 she says she was kicked out of a group called new paults accountability, or npa, a group she co-founded for survivors of sexual assault. why? because she shared a post on instagram about being a zionist. >> it said jews are indigenous to israel and that you can't colonize the land to which you are indigenous to. >> reporter: what happened after that post? >> one of the founding members of npa said so you don't think palestinians are being oppressed? but i have no animosity toward

palestinians. another member sent this horrible text to me in the npa group chat accusing me of being an oppressor. he told me that because i'm a zionist i condone violence against palestinians and just made all these uncalled for assumptions. >> reporter: assumptions that human rights lawyer eliza lewin calls contemporary anti-semitism. >> people today have a very difficult time understanding what zionism is. they don't realize that judaism is not just a religion, that judaism also has this sense of jewish peoplehood where this ethno religion, that jews share a common history, common ancestry. and that history and that ancestry is completely rooted in the land of israel. and it has absolutely nothing to do with the arab-israeli conflict. they may be very critical as a matter of fact of the current government of israel. they may be very pro palestinian human rights.

it makes no difference. they're considered pariahs. >> they accused you of causing sexual violence against others? >> they did. so they told me that because i'm a zionist that that means i'm an oppressor and that means i'm not against all forms of oppression, which means that i'm not against sexual violence. >> reporter: this was posted on npp's instagram account. "the origins of sexual violence are rooted in colonialism. being against sexual violence but indifferent to colonialism are conflicting ideologies. justifying the occupation of palestine in any way condones the violence used to acquire the land. this does not mean we do not support survivors or students with different political beliefs." >> the language of the left fighting for the political, racial, and social justice. unfortunately, sometimes i'll say inadvertently is creating an atmosphere that is instead of

promoting true inclusivity and acceptance of diversity, it's promoting a perspective that is creating an environment that is hostile toward jews. >> a lot of times when people talk about zionism or anti-zionism, they don't take the next step of saying, well, what does somebody actually mean by that? >> reporter: rabbi jill jacobs runs a progressive jewish organization, trua. she 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, so 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 blotner experienced at suny new paltz is part of a trend, rising anti-semitism in various forms on college campuses across the u.s. lewin is president of the brandeis center, which provides legal representation to victims of anti-semitism on college campuses. >> there's greater demand than our capacity to provide and meet the demand at this moment. >> we've seen incidents at stanford, ucla, northwestern, michigan, columbia, tufts, harvard, and the list goes on. >> reporter: the palestinian cause is a prominent one among progressives right now. and those voices have big megaphones at universities. >> when i was on campus it was free tibet. why tibet? had anybody been to tibet?

not necessarily. and it's still not free. but that was the issue of the moment. and it is true palestine is the issue of the moment. and that's not to discount it. the palestinians should be free. there are a lot of factors that go into why palestinian activism is so prominent on college campuses. and there certainly is an anti-semitic element in there but it's not the only or even the primary element. >> reporter: experts across the board caution anti-semitism is growing on the left but it is not equivalent to hate from the right. >> i'm certainly more terrified of the right, of people who are white nationalists, who are armed, who have a history of walking into synagogues and opening fire. and on the left it is more in the discourse. >> so on the extreme right, they are the tornado that will tear apart your house and kill

everyone inside in an instant. the far left is like climate change. slowly but surely the temperature is rising. some people deny it. then some people say we can adapt to it. but suddenly it reaches the point, the temperatures become so inhospitable that people can no longer live there. >> reporter: at suny suny new paltz blotner's situation grew srs when a friend saw threatening posts seemingly 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 new paltz 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 lewin filed a formal

complaint on behalf of blotner and another new paltz student with the u.s. department of 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 new paltz 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. and in a text with blotner claimed they are not anti-semitic. the university did give us a statement saying they've provided support and resources to, quote, those impacted by the events of the past year. they said they work with their jewish students and staff to support them and address anti-semitism. and they underscored as well that they support the free exchange of ideas under the first amendment. what did it feel like being kicked out of a group that you started because of a trauma that you experienced? >> i feel like i'm having a bit

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>> may 24th, 2022. a historic moment at the white house. >> i was overwhelmed. >> doubled up stop sworn in. an ambassador post for the first time. >> the leadership of this country recognizes that this is a serious issue. >> was and say that this position exists? >> the good news is that it does exist. the bad news is that we need like some sort of a cure for a terrible disease. >> a cure ever more elusive, especially online. five major social media companies took no action to remove 84% of anti-semitic posts.

>> sometimes they responded remove content, other times they don't. they are not ahead of the curve. i don't want to suggest that some of these larger platforms are doing nothing but it is not unreasonable for users to expect them to be doing more. >> we've got to set achievable goals. >> damien patton, once a skinhead who recruited people, is working on analogy to curb anti-semitism online. >> social media companies were the great disruptors 10 years ago. they need to be disrupted today. >> law enforcement is focused on disrupting attacks. training on how to respond. several organizations including the secure community network travel to synagogues around the country helping congregants prepare for a potential attack.

>> there has been an ongoing hostage situation. >> is straining the hostages credit was saving their lives. >> i remembered my training and i told the guys to run and i threw the chair. >> where the exits. >> you do that? >> always. >> even before? >> i did it before but now it is vigilance. the >> there needs to be another solution. how do we stop this rise in anti-semitism? >> understanding, recognition, action. it is to act on it, to educate. >> the came into our house and proceeded to break everything we owned. >> it is something that ruth

steinfeld dedicates her life to. >> all we can do, we can teach people. >> she tells her story frequently to students. talk about it. it is so important for us to teach it to other people for the sole reason of that it should never happen again. >> all the more important when less than half of the states mandate holocaust education at school. what does it matter that there is an increasing lack of education about the holocaust? >> it matters because this is a plague. you have to understand how this goes into bigger things. how people are taught to hate. this is an indication of a kind

of rock that consumes everything. >> many responded to rising anti-semitism by retreating and staying quiet. even victims of hate say no, do the opposite. >> we have the friends crazy uncle who is a blatant racist or anti-semi and they will apologize for them and we will let it go. that is not what we need to do. letting things go is a problem. >> the people who have strange, bad crazy misconceptions about . when you talk to them and date meet you and they realize those are wrong, that is how you build bridges and correct these prejudices. >> i wear a jewish star, something i've only started to

do recently. >> why is that? >> i am proud of who i am. with the rise of anti-semitism, i wanted to say, this is who i am. >> standing up to the oldest hate, educating and never forgetting . >> remember 2020? we were living in lockdown, wondering if it was ever going to end. some of us just wanted to get away. there was nowhere to go. orders were closed. even hawaii was locked down. the >> don't look here. >> the islands