so the adl thinks what happened in your city may have been the beginning of a hate group turf war. is that what you think is happening look, i think country. >> and these radical groups that spew hatred are trying to take advantage of america. but i can tell you one thing about being an american it's the love of one another and the rejection of hate. and that's exactly what we're doing in columbus, ohio. we're rallying together the folks that come up to me on the street, and i've talked to pastors. i've talked to faith leaders. you know, they are we are all standing together, united to reject hate. and we want to love our neighbor. and that's frankly what makes columbus so great is our rich culture neighborhoods, why our economy is so strong because of our strong lgbt community. the embracing and what we have going on in all of our wonderful neighborhoods. it's because of our cultural differences that make us so great. so it's easy for us in the right thing to do to stand together in a unified way to reject hate and columbus is a fantastic city which is why when seeing this, it was

the local adl office, sara, calling this absolutely disgusting. this presence of what they described as far- right extremists. and really, you're at complete loss when you see these images of individuals spreading this message of hate in 2024 outside of this play. >> so disturbing. polo sandoval, thank for tracking it and bringing it to us to make us aware. john? >>> this morning. red flag warnings in effect for 30 million people in the northeast. strong winds fueling a 5,000- acre fire in new jersey. hundreds of first responders currently battling the blaze. there's been no rain anywhere around here for such a long time. >>> all right, this morning, a new title for an american hero. harriet tubman was officially recognized as a one-star general in the maryland army national guard for her service to the union army during the civil war. tubman risked her own life to help lead more than 700 slaves to freedom via the underground railroad. kate? >>> so since election day, it's become clear that attacks on women on social media has just surged. sexist,

statistics from any group whether it's the fbi or any civil society, the southern poverty law center, adl wherever you go to for your data. it is shameful that in this country where watching this happen and it is okay. they aren't the only group that has found this devastatingly serious threat. arabs, muslims, others, people who are not, who were lgbtqi mean, pick your group. things are happening here. so it would be amazing if from the top down we had a momentum in this country that said we need to rebuild and figure out how to talk to each other, how to disagree well. we have defined a way to respect each other and to eradicate this us versus them. it would be great if they came from the top. but in the absence of that it needs to come from each one of us. whether it is an intervention on a one-on-one level or it is an organization that does this. we have to find a way to disagree well. we have to find places where we can work on, things together. you have to buy incompletely to everything but your you hae the dignity of another american that is different than you, who lives different t

i think that there are those who you know wonderful national organizations ajc adl right they are builton the idea of building bridges and this sense of well where our allies at this moment of time and i'm not on of the boards of these organizations but i think that there was a real sense of soul searching as to you know and by the way, just with a limited number of resources, if you are going to invest, are you going invest in the defense of our people or are you going to invest in building bridges with different allies? and and i think this question of shields or bridge building is still very much on the docket of american jewry. i happen to believe that it's a binary has to be rejected. think that i still actively within the neighborhood of our neighborhood work to cultivate relationships. i'm actually doing a book event not with you, but with the pastor of their church so that i'm going i'm taking this show on the road, as it were, to build these relationships. i think it's critically important and and i there's still some questions about. where are our the allies right now. i don't

the adl is illustrated, the number of anti-semitic incidents, more vthan doubled. in the united states. five college campuses in particular have become vile incubators of hatred of jews. at cornell university, in the aftermath of october 7, one student made bio threats, including statements such as if i see a pig mail jew i will stab you and slit your throat. if i see another pig female jew i will drag you away and throw you off the cliff. a student organization and california state university- long beach. circulated a flyer calling for a, quote, day of resistance in celebration of october 7. you will note on the flyer is an image of a person parachuting with a fan attached a direct reference to an glorification of hamas terrorists that used light is to descend upon a music festival and murder 260 innocent people and take many more hostages. at columbia university, the situation got so bad that the orthodox rabbi on campus had to make this public statement. columbia university's public safety cannot guarantee jewish student safety in the face of extreme anti-semiti

how do we deal with the hate that's coming this way and groups like adl and others, the action networkhis? we see the text messages to blacks right after the election. we see a rise in anti-semitism from europe headed this way. how do we keep this coalition against hate together? >> look, i'm so glad you asked, rev, and there are a few things. we've got to stop the gaslighting. they had people in amsterdam who said the jews brought this on themselves because some of them made mean chants the night before. there is no excuse for intolerance, and there is no rationalization for violence. so that's number one. i think, number two, we need to realize that we have so much more in common than things that keep us apart. and so politicians -- frankly on both sides will try to light a fire, will try to divide us. we have to resist that, rev. jews and blacks, asian americans, hispanics, men, women, gay, straight. all of us need to come together to build the america we want to see. that's what you and i have to do. that's what our community has to do in the years ahead. >> all right, ceo of the a