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That is the wall street journal. Usa today says the knife attack was an act of hatred. They write that a man was ordered held on 5 million bail sunday after a knifewielding attacker stabbed five people during a hanukkah celebration in a rabbis home. The latest in a string of assaults apparently targeting jews in the region. The suspect is 37 years old, pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted burglary in the attack. Governor cuomo directed this date Police Hate Crimes task force to investigate. He says the attack was at least the 13th incident of antisemitism in the state in the past few weeks. A quote from the governor here, this is intolerance needs ignorance meets illegality. It is an american cancer on the body politic. Governor cuomo in usa today this morning. President trump sent this tweet during the day yesterday. The antisemitic attack in monsey, new york milani and i wish the victims of recovery. The Washington Post headline this morning says as antisemitic attacks rise authorities are wondering how to respond. A short blurb from the Police CommissionersNews Conference in new york. Dermot shea said he could not believe he was addressing the public about antisemitic violence less than a month after the attack in jersey city, new jersey. , it is truly surreal to be having the same conversation about hate, conversation about intolerance, he said in oklyn on sunday before this affects us all, says the police chief. That is in the Washington Post this morning. Reaction from official minorityn the gop whip Steve Scalise commented on the new york hanukkah stabbings. Talked about government response. Heres a look. [video clip] its alarming and we are seeing growing antisemitism. Something we need to speak against, people of all faiths. Whether it is a synagogue in pittsburgh, the home of an orthodox rabbi, we need to stand up and say its wrong to attack people based on their faith, and to see this antisemitism growing throughout our country, it is something we need to not only be alarmed about but also stand up against. Is there some kind of government response that is logical to this to a wave of antisemitism we have seen in new york . I think the reaction needs to be quick and direct that antisemitism is wrong. That attacks on people of faith are wrong and regardless of whose attacked, we will stand against it, not try to figure out who did it. That is Law Enforcements job. Law enforcement is doing a great job of making sure they are getting suspects. Too often washington you see people trying to figure out someones motives instead of just saying it is wrong, call it out for what it is, antisemitism is wrong. We need to stand against it and it is unfortunately starting to pop up around the country more, so we need to stand up and be vocal and united against it. Host that was the House Minority whip, commenting on the hanukkah shootings north of new york. Back to texas. The dallas morning news, republicans praising laws. They say for did the Church Shooter on sunday. Democrats call for gun control. New york times has this headline about the Texas Church Shooting. This would have been a massacre if not for church security. A little detail from West Settlement texas. A gunman opened fire on sunday morning in a Church Killing two people with a shotgun before a member of the church and volunteer Security Team fatally shot him. There were 250 worshipers in the west Freeway Church, where the government began shooting just before communion, said jack cummings, a minister at the church. Mr. Cummings says the gunman was acting suspicious and drew the attention of the church Security Team. This team has existed for at least 10 years and has and is made up of the congregation members who are licensed, to carry firearms and practice shooting regularly. Time for your reaction on these violent acts over the weekend. Nick, you are up from gaithersburg, maryland. Independent line just outside d. C. Caller i would just like to say , the majority of the blame really falls on the media, number one. Number two, the amount of antisemitism that is encouraged and spread in the universities. It being lot of reported on by independent, amateur, i guess you call it news outlets and stuff. You can check out any of these videos on youtube or any other social media, where students are openly antisemitic. It seems to be encouraged. Host to your point, you mention campuses but you also mentioned the media. What is media doing, what are media doing to encourage this . Caller every day. Minutes without one celebrity, one news outlet, constantly disparaging christians, calling christians everything from slaveowners to this to that. Its just constant. If you think im being hyperbolic about it, you really arent taking a good look at whats really going on around you. Or you live in a bubble. Host that was nick calling from gaithersburg. Lets hear from joyce. Welcome to the program. What is your reaction to all this . Because im horrified am ethnically jewish through my mother, who never told anybody in her whole life except my father that she was ethnically jewish. She had to keep it hidden because of fear. Because it does not come from the media. Where it really comes from is in peoples homes, what the adults say to each other in front of their children, against jewish people and other ethnicities. I remember when i was a little girl i went to a friends house and we were listening to her parents talking, and the father said he hated dirty jews and i did not even understand that. It comes from in the homes. Theres people that talk like that in front of their children and children are impressionable. They remember. Host what should be done about this, joyce . Should more be done in the legal area . Whether it is local or state or federal government, is enough being done . What else could be done to prevent these incidents . Caller when i was a girl i grew up on air force bases because dad was in the military and we had a class called citizenship. I was already a u. S. Citizen, but we still had a class called citizenship. It was like 20 or 30 minutes where the teacher or somebody talk to us about how we treated each other. They dont have citizenship classes anymore. They called it portman ship. They dont have classes that teach moral values in schools and i think that is important. Sometimes they are not getting the right values at home. Thank you for calling. Jim is on the line from grand forks, north dakota. Republican. Your reaction this morning. Me . Er are you reading host you are on the air. Coming out of a blizzard here. Hoping i can get my car out for work. I did not hear about the church one. Attacks on citi jews, it is always fascinating not one mention of the perpetrators being young black men. We have a hard time saying that. We have a hard time talking the truth. A threat of antisemitism throughout you hear it all the time on cspan. Going back to sharpton, farrakhan, i dont know. Why not say who it is . Nazis, a bunch of white go ahead and say it. I dont know what the problem is, what they are learning in their hones. In their homes. Minnesota and north dakota, we s. Ve a lot of somali refugee just like lewiston, maine. They always put them in white enclaves. All white towns or places where there is abundance of cash a bunch of norwegians. They dont put them in black neighborhoods. They tried that one time. That fascinated me in the philadelphia area i remember as far as 20 years ago, the west west african gee they hate them. They dont have any tolerance for them. Lax dont get along with california, the riots, they shut down entire schools. This is the reality. You turn around and blame white guys who grew up in the lutheran church. Middle america evangelical whites are the greatest supporters of jewish people in israel. Host thank you for calling. We want to get some other viewpoints. Heres the Washington Times. Heres a picture of the suspect, 37name is Grafton E Thomas years old. Blood all over his clothing, smelled of bleach, this is when they pulled him over in his car. To the right of that story is a photo where some folks are gathering to protest against hate. You can see them holding up placards and posters and that type of thing. More official reaction from new york. Chuck schumer, democrat from new york, says no american and no new yorker should be subject to the kind of terror and pain the new York Jewish Community now bears. Im demanding of thorough of thisation by the fbi specific attack and other antisemitic attacks in recent days. The cascade in antisemitic attacks is outrageous throughout metropolitan new york and america and must not be tolerated. A couple of tweets from china from senator Chuck Schumer. ,eres more from Governor Cuomo now yesterday on cspan discussing the stabbings. [video clip] its important for me to express to the rabbi and to all the people of the state of new is intolerance needs ignorance meets illegality. This is an intolerant time in this country. Hatred. Nger, we see it is an american cancer in the body politic. It turns one cell in the body against others. We have seen it in the state of new york. This is about the 13th incident of antisemitism in the past few weeks. It comes during a period of high holidays for the jewish people. It is intolerant but it is also illegal. At the end of the day, its not just about words. Its about action and we have seen enough in new york. This is violence, spurred by hate. It is mass violence, and i consider this an act of domestic terrorism. Lets call it what it is. These people are domestic terrorists. The law should reflect that and they should be punished as if it was an act of terrorism. We are going to take the lead here in the state of new york and do just that and im going to propose that in the beginning of january when i lay out my state of the state address. In solidarity with all members of the Jewish Community, very important part of this state, a very important part of this country, and we are going to enforce the laws and make sure act like this did not happen. And if they happen, they are punished to the full extent of the law. Host Governor Cuomo yesterday in new york. We are getting your reaction to violent acts we are calling domestic terrorism. We are getting your reaction to all of this this morning. One in monsey, new york. The stabbing inside the home of a rabbi, and a Texas Church Shooting inside the church, where the gunman was killed later by a Security Team inside the church. Part of the congregation. We also note this headline at nbc news. It happened before all of this, u. S. Mass shootings hit a new high in 2019. Mass killings hit a new high in 2019. Most of them, they point out, were mass shootings. 41 mass killings, of those, 33 were mass shootings. More than 210 people were killed. Nbc news. Com. Stephen come on the line from chatham, massachusetts. Thank you for waiting. Caller the murders and shootings that happened in the country this week are unjust and disgusting. He should not have destroyed people in general. Host what can be done about this to prevent it . What do you think . Caller less guns and more justice, by talking to people properly. Host thank you, stephen. James on facebook writes, we can conceal carry in texas. Would have been a different story in new york if they had their Second Amendment rights. Burke, mr. On to milo scullys, just think if he had s, of your beloved ar15 scores of jews would be dead. Thes her district that monsey stabbing incident happened, congresswoman lowy writes, as we wait for more information i stand united with the Jewish Community in new york has endured and on except the bowstring of antisemitic violence. We must not rest until all individuals of all faiths are safe to walk the streets in worship without fear. We have richard in stephenville, texas, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning to you. Host what is your reaction . Caller my reaction is very sad. I pray for the people that are dead in both new york and texas. Able to takeing the guns inside the church the texas one was thwarted quickly. I have a problem with the congressman, i believe it was schumer no it was cuomo, the one that talks about how bad that was. He does not talk about how that shooting in texas was, even though it was perpetrated against a bunch of white people. I dont want to bring race into it because race does not have any to do with it when people the gun has no problem with the people, the man is the one with the problem with the people evil. He good morning, christopher. Minus reaction is sadness, fear my initial reaction is sadness, fear. I wish piece for the families peace peace for the families affected. Talk, there was a lot of all these different cultures clashing. What i want to talk about is the Mental Health care in this country. I think a lot of these acts are acts of desperation. If youve ever had any dealings with Mental Health care as far as Like CommunityMental Health of care thatlevel people in impoverished communities have, minorities, people who dont have access to brand named insurance, private insurance, usually their answer is to put them in the county help andthey go to get they let a doctor know their feelings, so they go down and they say they cant take it anymore and they need some help and they tell it was stepping up patrols in jewish neighborhoods after a series of antisemitic incidents last week. Thats in the New York Times this morning. Sarahs on the line from fort lauderdale, florida. Good morning. Caller hello. Good morning. Am a registered republican. Im not a trump supporter. I did not vote for trump. I think that trump possum response incident trumps reso races incidents during his poor. Stration has been said what has he specifically, before you go on . Caller specifically, what happened in charlottesville, everyone knows what happened in charlottesville with not being willing to just call people out specifically until there is so much pressure and things like that. I did not want to call about that. The reason im calling is because, id like to talk about some other things that have been in the New York Times and wall street journal recently. All of the, what i consider him and a lot of jewish people consider, antisemitic pictures about vaccines. The reason im calling is because i think Everybody Needs to check themselves. And notice that antisemitism is not only coming from one particular party, but that the newspapers and the way theyve been portraying the vaccine crisis in new york has been incredibly antisemitic and has voted antisemitism. Has promoted antisemitism. Host dave is calling from michigan david is calling from michigan. Caller thank you very much for taking my call. My heart goes out to all those involved. I really think its the racist republicans out there. All blame trump because these mass shootings, look at the manifesto. Supporters are trump. He spews hatred, he has greenlighted all these hate groups to come out of the trump. K, so i blame i blame the Republican Party 100 . Fact check me, 90 are all Trump Supporters and most of them are republicans. We need a little bit of love in america. Host nancy pelosi the House Speaker says heartbroken and deeply disturbed by the stabbing in monsey and the recent antisemitic attacks in the new york city metro area especially during this Holiday Season really must condemn and confront all forms of bigotry and hate wherever we see them. Heres Mitch Mcconnell, majority leader in the United States senate. Another horrifying antisemitic attack, a terrible reminder that the fight against hate and bigotry especially antisemitism is far from finished, even right here at home. Condolences go out to the victims of last nights attack in monsey. Jamie is calling from chicago. Independent caller. Caller how are you . Im pretty good. Disturbed by one of the callers a few callers back who seemed like he was targeting aboutmericans to be this attack and i do know i am an africanamerican, my family has been here since 1791. I have a dear friend who is jewish. I think that what happened is appalling that i cant stand violence against one another on any level, but i think the guy who called before, i have a friend who is an attorney here in people out there. Why they are angry, maybe theres a connection between when you see injustice in the world are you supposed to just stand by and do nothing . So arrogant and violent. Who spews more hatred than the israelis against the muslims . Every day they are accusing a rand and iraq iran and iraq and castigating the region over there. Hitlers wante