. ♪ experts and academics from the jewish community including anti-defamation league jonathan greenblatttified on the rise of anti-semitism in the u.s.. before the house homeland security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism. witnesses discuss the role social media and big tech has played in fostering hateful rhetoric and what can be done to combat anti-semitism on the national and global level.

the leader of the anti—defamation league, jonathan greenblatt, wrote last year, "social media companiesage from the margins to the mainstream." yet your experience of social media is more hopeful, and certainly very different. it suggests that it's possible for closed minds not to necessarily just become more closed, but potentially to open. absolutely. you know, i had visited twitter in 2016 for the first time, and i was talking to the woman who, when i was first on twitter, she was showing the e—mails that she had written to the other twitter executives explaining why i wasn't being kicked off the platform. if she had done that, i wouldn't have had these experiences that let me see outside of westboro‘s ideology. you know, twitter can be a tool for radicalisation, because you have extremists there trying to recruit people. why aren't we're doing things like — why aren't we in the mainstream, people with better ideas, trying to recruit people? if we try to kick people of these platforms, isolate them, all that does is it lends them — it pushes them deeper into this ideology. all they h

. >>> experts and academics from the jewish community including jonathan greenblatt testified on the rise of anti-semitism in the u.s. before the house homeland security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism. witnesses discussed the role social media and big tech has played in fostering hateful rhetoric and what can be done to combat antesemitism on a national and global level.

jonathan greenblatt, the ceo of the antidefamation league. thank you for being here. next we're joined by mr. nathan diament, of the jewish orthodox of america. if i could say one thing, we have seen certainly the orthodox community disproportionately suffering from a high rate of these anti-semitic attacks. i have the luxury of stepping outside my home and people not necessarily knowing i'm jewish. our brothers and sisters in the orthodox community do not have that luxury. and today, we do acknowledge this problem. and we do thank you for your leadership, sir. next we're joined by mr. eugene kontorovich -- and i apologize for what i'm doing all of your names -- professor of law at george mason university. finally we have mr. clifford d. may, founder and president of the defense of democracies. without objection, the witness's full statements will be inserted into the record. i now ask each witness to summarize his statement for five minutes, beginning with mr. greenblatt. >> chairman rose, ranking member walker, chairman thompson, and all of the distinguished members

♪ experts and academics from the jewish community including anti-defamation league jonathan greenblattestified on the rise of anti-semitism in the u.s.. before the house homeland security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism. witnesses discuss the role social media and big tech has played in fostering hateful rhetoric and what can be done to combat anti-semitism on the national and global level. [inaudible] acknowledging my counterpart, congressman walker. i'm going to repeat what i said previously because our friend who is injured because he tried to wrestle me. [laughter] she has made the decision to briefly pause his career in public service. i don't believe it is the last chapter or by any sense of the word, but to say so definitively on the record, it's been one of the greatest honors of my life serving on the subcommittee with mr. walker and i look forward to serving with you in many capacities in the years to come, sir. .. >> throughout the united state states, 2049 carried out by extremist. since december 23rd the attacks on jews across new york city and each and e

. >>> experts and academics from the jewish community including jonathan greenblatt testified on the rise of anti-semitism in the u.s. before the house homeland security subcommittee on intelligence and counterterrorism. witnesses discussed the role social media and big tech has played in fostering hateful rhetoric and what can be done to combat antesemitism on a national and global level.