Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated in what has become the heaviest flare-up since the 2014 war, with extremist violence also erupting in Israeli cities with large Arab and Jewish communities.  A new poll from Pew finds that most Jews believe antisemitism in America has increased in recent years and said they feel less safe now than they once did. The Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence arm is setting up a dedicated team to focus on domestic terrorism.

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• In March, a man opened fire at three Atlanta-area spas, killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent. We commend the Fulton County DA’s commitment to justice by filing the first charges under Georgia’s new #hatecrime law. #StopAAPIHate…
• We are alarmed and heartbroken at the violence - including lynchings, rioting and looting – that is being reported in Israeli cities with Jewish and Arab residents. We strongly condemn these acts of hate and extremism…
• Threatening synagogues is not anti-Israel protest – it’s #antisemitism. We appreciate the efforts from German police who took action when that line was crossed…

• Jews in New Jersey experience more hate than Jews in any other region in the U.S. | Opinion (NJ.com -- Scott Richman op-ed)
• ‘Hate in the Homeland’ growing, crimes not reported to FBI (Hearst Media -- Allison Padilla-Goodman interviewed)
• How vaccine ‘passports’ became a battle cry for COVID-19 conspiracies, ‘anti-vaxx’ forces (Los Angeles Times)

• Top social media platforms 'unsafe' for LGBTQ users, report finds (NBC News)
• Capitol insurrection forces military’s extremism problem out of the shadows (Roll Call)
• ‘Anti-White Watch’ Is the Racist Answer to Surging Hate Crimes (Daily Beast)

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