of a very fine so i did and they're still bleating and whining but a rabbi cooper from the simon wiesenthal center i mean i know the man's name well here it's a rabbit. and he worked up to i don't mean to get into ad hominem attacks about him but it is incredibly dull and boring and really i've been able to would stand it in a lot the there are enough people who are interested in what i think and feel and who follow my work my music and and my songs and so on and so forth the rabbi coopers of this world are finding it very just to destroy me. and i hope i'm going back on the road this summer but it is annoying it's really annoying it's like you try coming a fly buzzing around you comes to roads we're running out of time just slightly but just going back to the question what would your message be to those who accuse you of anti semitism and do you see more actions from the pro israel groups against you accusing you of these things yet by my message would be don't do it. it's food lish you need to come up with the with you need to come up with a defense for your side of the argument over whether or

i -- first on behalf of the 400,000 members of the simon wiesenthal center, i want to commend senator jackey rosen and through the chair, chairman perkins, for being here, right here in the u.s. senate at a time of a broken political conversation in our country. and through c-span and high-tech, sending out a message to our elected officials on both sides. there shouldn't be only anti-semitism and let us start with it, in order to try to rediscover a sense of why we're really here and a type of bipartisanship and when we can, nonpartisanship. i commend the commitment across the board politically, religiously, for you, sir, you don't know me very well but you should be very worried when a rabbi starts by saying something nice about you. [ laughter ] so, let me make also with permission two comments on some of the important issues being raised previously. on the monday morning after the mass murders in new zealand, i received a phone call from the senior official from facebook. he said, rabbi, got great news for you, we've already removed streaming of the mass murders that took place in

the simon wiesenthal center produced a list of the worst incidences of anti-semitism. can you speakd, to the trend we have seen with these anti-semitic attacks and what we can do toward eliminating the boycott, divestment, and section and other forms of anti-semitism? -- and sanction and other forms of anti-semitism? >> i am a big believer in knowing your adversary. if you are the military, there is an intelligence branch. it tries to give a picture of how your adversary is laying out his forces. that is what you have to do in this business, find out who they are and what they are doing. many times it is left to op-ed writers to conjecture where this is coming from. but you can find out. it is important if you are going to find out where the images and -- where the anti-semitism is coming from to have multilingual capacity. when i wrote a book back in 2003 kingdom" abouts the hatred that entered into, that was part of the attack on 9/11, where did it come from? couldd a team which actually read off the web some of the most sensitive arabic information. it was not class

the simon wiesenthal center has produced a list of anti-semitism including some last month during thenukkah season. ambassador, can you speak to the scene with these anti-semitic attacks and what can be done, what we can be doing to move toward the goal of eliminating thee boycott investment and sanction and other forms of anti-semitism? >> i'm a big believer in knowing who your adversary is. if you're in the m military, the is an intelligent branch. it tries to give a picture of how your adversary lays out its forces. that's doing their business, too. you have to find out who they are and what they are doing. many times people don'tey know r it's left up to writers the conjecture for this is coming from. but you can get to it, you can out, it's important if you're going to try to figure out where the anti-semitism is coming from, have multilingual capacity. when i wrote the book back in 2003 called hatreds kingdom about how theha hatred that entered into and was part of the attack on america on 9/11, where did it come from? i hired a team which could actually read off thehe web some