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Elissa Slotkin: “The Jewish community suffers 10 times the number of hate…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 06:13

… gives permission for people to climb that escalation, that ladder of escalation that goes from saying hateful things online to saying them in person, to graffiti, to ultimately violence. And The Jewish community suffers 10 times the number of hate crimes than any other community in this country. So it is an epidemic. And until we push back on that permission, we're going to see incidents like this continue to proliferate. (06:13–06:20)

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Asserts that the Jewish community experiences hate crimes at a rate 10 times higher than any other community.

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