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1-on-1 with Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL: Hate in America and Where We Go From Here

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It is one week after the shootings in Pittsburgh and 80 years after Kristallnacht. How deep do the rivers of hate in America today run? How much culpability do our political leaders have for channeling that hate into our daily discourse? Who is put at risk? On this 1-on-1 we have a conversation with one of America's leaders in combatting these forces that are tearing our society apart, Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Join us for a timely and special conversation.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to another of Deep State Radio's one-on-one conversations with experts and leading thinkers. I'm David Rothkov, your host. I am neither an expert nor a leading thinker. But with us is Jonathan Greenblatt who runs the anti-defamation

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league and with whom I worked many years ago in the Warren Harding administration, but who is extremely well preserved.

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You know, you know,

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you know, you know,

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Jonathan, you know, we're here at a moment just after the election.

1:15.0

And the story immediately prior to the election

1:19.0

was of this horrific violence that was a sort of manifestation of the hate and tensions that have built up

1:29.7

in the United States over the course of the past couple of years. the settle down and yet there are a lot of reasons to believe that it might actually

1:44.8

get worse perhaps as presidents of tensions surrounding the president grow

1:50.5

worse or as tensions between the parties grow worse or as tensions between the parties grow worse or as hate groups grow

1:56.5

more fearful of what might be coming their way in the future. And I'm wondering

2:01.1

as you look at this and reflect on this period and this turning point, what do you see ahead of us?

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Well, I think it's a good question, David. I think there are a few things to think about. So number one, we've seen since 2016 arise in

2:18.8

hate crimes to the United States and specifically arise in anti-Semitic incident.

2:24.7

So the ADO, we've been tracking anti-Semitic incidents in particular for the past 40 years.

2:30.9

And last year we saw 57% overall surge, the largest single year spike we've ever

2:37.6

recorded, you know, again since the 1970s. We always thought there was a little bit of a silver lining because while forms of harassment

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