By COLlive reporter
The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism held a hearing in Washington, DC, on efforts to combat anti-Semitism and domestic terrorism on January 15, C-Span reports.
Experts and academics from the Jewish community, including Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, testified on the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States, the role social media and big tech have played in fostering hateful rhetoric, and what can be done to combat the problem on a national and global level.
In the second panel, the committee heard from retired General John Allen; John Miller, the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, and Paul Goldenberg, who co-chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Council Subcommittee for the Prevention of Targeted Violence Against Faith-Based Organizations. Mr. Miller outlined efforts in New York City to combat hate crimes, anti-Semitism, and domestic terrorism.
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who represents New York’s 9th Congressional District, said she was “deeply concerned” by the alarming growth of anti-Semitic attacks in her district which includes Midwood and Crown Heights.
. @HomelandDems are committed to protecting the American people from anti-Semitism and white supremacy at all costs because domestic terrorism has no place in our communities. #NoHateNoFear pic.twitter.com/li8WFjavaI
— Yvette D. Clarke (@RepYvetteClarke) January 16, 2020
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We need more of these voices to be heard on the national scene .
And what about black supremacism which is responsible for far far more antisemitism in New York than white supremacism?
I got a call from congresswoman yevette clarks office asking me to participate in a meeting that she was calling . It was about impeachment, and some other topics. anti-semitism was not on the ballot. she couldnt care less, but has to save face, saying shes deeply disturbed….shes not doing a thing about it.
It’s not white supremacists.
The majority of the non-Jews we live among are African.
So, of course, there will be more black supremacism here.
You don’t want to live among white supremacists any more than
other ethnic anti-Semitic fascists. In Pittsburgh, over 20 years ago,
on the bus, a couple of rotten individuals compared my kippa to a sweat rag, so I told them what I think of them. When I got off the bus, they threatened
me, “YOU SAY THAT AGAIN I’LL KILL YOU, YOU J..BA..!”
I just read that chaim Deutch is declaring his candidacy for congress in 2021 when his term comes to an end in the city council. He will take on Clarke. He has a good chance of winning as frum yidden are increasing in Brooklyn very fast.