War there & hate here, Bankman-Fried verdict, NYC Mayor investigated

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jews and Muslims in the US say they’re experiencing rising bigotry and hatred as a result of the Israel-Hamas war; facing threats in synagogues and mosques, on the streets, on college campuses, and even in their own homes. Maya Berry is the Executive Director of the Arab American Institute. She speaks with Laura Coates about the FBI hate crime data that backs up an alarming increase in reported incidents. Plus, disgraced crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried is found guilty of fraud, and potentially faces a 110-year sentence. And, the FBI investigates whether NYC Mayor Adams received illegal donations from foreign nationals. Also, The Beatles drop their “final” song with a little help from A.I. For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, if you think what's happening over there does not affect us here, well tonight, right
0:07.8	here in the United States of America, sadly you'd be wrong.
0:11.3	Tonight, on Laura Coates Live. No, there are not any airstrikes happening here, and Americans are not being kidnapped
0:27.0	here.
0:28.0	Families are not being forced to flee their homes for war here.
0:33.5	Thankfully, all that happens to be true.
0:36.2	But the hate that's spreading around the world
0:38.5	is very much being felt right here in the US of A. Jewish and Muslim Americans are facing threats in synagogues
0:46.3	and mosques on the streets, on college campuses, even in their own homes.
0:52.6	And the warning signs, many have said, have not only been there, they are there.
0:58.3	They are here.
1:00.1	The anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia,
1:03.6	they have exponentially increased.
1:06.2	And it's not somebody else's problem to grapple with.
1:09.1	Really, as a society, it is our problem.
1:13.3	Anti-Semitic incents in this country, remember, they're up almost 400%.
1:19.6	Imagine that figure since the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on October 7th.
1:27.0	In fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the American public,
1:35.0	they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes.
1:39.0	I mean, the figures are shocking, but the pictures are shocking.
1:44.0	I mean, we may not want to believe that it's actually happening here,
1:48.0	but we are seeing it with our own eyes.
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