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Bloomberg Surveillance

Hate Crimes Surge in Wake of Gaza War

Bloomberg Surveillance

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3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Reports of crimes targeting Jews, Muslims and Arabs have risen around the world in since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the Israeli military’s retaliatory operation in Gaza. While previous conflicts in the Middle East also sparked a backlash outside the region, this time it is more intense and the wave of hate may be far from cresting, according to advocacy groups, former law enforcement officials and analysts. In this Bloomberg Radio special report, Stephen Carroll examines how these communities are confronting a global surge in hate speech and hate crimes.

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We celebrated love and we danced and it was amazing.

0:36.0

Then the rocket started and gunshots everywhere.

0:39.0

We managed to escape.

0:42.0

But there were a lot of friends that didn't.

0:45.0

What we will do to our enemies in the coming days,

0:48.0

will reverberate with them for generations. A missile hit in the square and there was rubble hitting us as we were walking. There was glass metal. It was like

1:04.4

Doomsday. There are civilians here who are not our enemy and we do not want to

1:09.5

target them. We are asking them to evacuate. There are 50 people in the house without any food, drink, water or electricity.

1:17.0

I don't know how we'll provide food for our children.

1:21.0

War isn't what we're looking for for but war was forced upon us by a bloodthirsty terrorist organization.

1:27.0

On the 7th of October, Hamas attacked Israel.

1:36.0

More than 1,200 people were killed and a further 200 were taken to Gaza as hostages.

1:42.0

It was the largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.

1:47.0

Israel's military response was swift. At the time of this recording, Gaza's Hamasron government

1:52.0

says more than 15,000 people have been

1:54.4

killed there including thousands of children. A moment ago you heard from some of

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