in our national lead a slew of
anti-semitic incidents here in the
united states bringing strong
condemnations most recently two chicago
cinema synagogues were vandalized over
the weekend swastikas were also spray
painted on the outside of washington
dc's union station cnn's jason carroll
takes a closer look now at this recent
spate of hate
sickening images out of orlando florida
on saturday as video emerged showing a
group of neo-nazis shouting anti-semitic
slurs and waving nazi flags near a
shopping center the neo-nazi
demonstration drew immediate bipartisan
condemnation from state political
leaders but one key voice was missing
over the weekend that of florida's
governor ron desantis desantis finally
addressed the issue monday afternoon
taking the opportunity to lash out at
his critics who were questioning why it
was taking him so long to condemn the
neo-nazis so what i'm going to say is
these people
these democrats who were trying to use
this as some type of political issue to
try to smear me as if i had something to
do that were not playing their game the
recent incident in florida one of
several that has the jewish community
deeply concerned in chicago two
synagogues vandalized over the weekend a
swastika left at one location while in
washington d.c police arrested a man for
spray painting swastikas at union
station last friday back in florida
hundreds of anti-semitic flyers left at
homes in miami beach and surfside
similar flyers dumped at residences in
san francisco this just weeks after a
man held four people hostage at a texas
synagogue in an hours-long standoff so
the reality is these incidents that have
been occurring around the country
are happening at a time of historically
high
numbers of anti-semitic incidents the
last four years have been amongst the
highest we've ever recorded in 40 years
in 2020 the anti-defamation league
reported 2024
anti-semitic incidents in the united
states a slight decrease from the year
prior but still the third highest year
of incidents since the ado began
tracking it in 1979.
so yesterday on our show i misspoke
actor and the view host whoopi goldberg
repeatedly apologizing for the
misinformed and hurtful comments she
made about the holocaust on monday it
happened during a debate about a
tennessee school board benning mouse a
graphic novel about the atrocities
committed during the holocaust let's be
truthful about it because the holocaust
isn't about race
no
it's not about racism
it's about a different race but it's
it's not about race
it's not about race because
it's about man's inhumanity to man that
drew immediate backlash the head of the
anti-defamation league writing no whoopi
goldberg the holocaust was about the
nazis systematic annihilation of the
jewish people who they deemed to be an
inferior race they dehumanized them and
used this racist propaganda to justify
slaughtering 6 million jews goldberg
tweeted an apology monday and apologized
again last night
i did it to myself this was my
my thought process and i will
work hard not to think that way again
goldberg taking more responsibility for
her comments again on tuesday words
matter and mine are no exception
i regret my comments as i said and i
stand corrected i also stand with the
jewish people as they know and y'all
know because i've always done that
non-apologizing however host of shows on
fox news attacking progressive jewish
billionaire george soros the adl is
saying host there regularly indulge in
anti-semitic dog whistles saying this is
dangerous stuff and needs to stop
and jake given all that's happened
recently that's why you've got folks at
the adl saying that it's so important
for people to be educated about the
holocaust and for elected officials
whenever they see incidents of
anti-semitism to speak up forcefully and
quickly
jake all right jason carroll thanks so
much