We have a lot of folks on the roster so i want to get right into the program. There we go. So, we are going to hear from u. S. Senator from nevada jacky rosen, lets save applause for the end. Directive the director of the Mccain Institute, the white house domestic policy advisor, susan rice, and the special advisor on security, rabbi walker. An author historian and professor, who will also be receiving the please join me in giving a warm welcome to the senator. Good afternoon everyone. I want to say i am a former synagogue president. Im used to this. Usually were just giving the announcements, but lunch is great. Its so great to see all of you, and to be here with all of you today at the National Leadership summit. I looked out and i see friends, some old and some new, i see some las vegas lost begins over here, so people from chicago. Im sure there are this way out there. But i want to thank all of the leaders here at the adl, including all of our friends, the National DirectorJonathan Greenblatt, the sports chair been sacked, and i am going to give a very special shout out to nevadas own, my own joey breslin. [applause] and so, your tireless work of countless others across this Organization Helps to fight back against antisemitism, against bigotry and hate, and across the globe nobody does this work alone. For over a century the adl has been leading the charge to secure justice and fair treatment for all. And to bring an end to injustice and unfair discrimination against the jewish people. And so, we need you, all of you, the ones i can see, well, now i can see well. All of you. We need all of you now more than ever. And one thing i dont have to tell this group is that we are living in a time when Jewish Americans and jews around the world are experiencing an alarming search in antisemitic hate crimes and violence. And all of us here as leaders today, we note that we have a special responsibility to stand up for what is right and that special responsibility to speak out again against what is wrong. And that is a responsibility that i take seriously as only the third jewish woman and the first former synagogue president to serve in the United States senate. [applause] xl, over the last few years alone, sadly, we have seen antisemitic hate and extremist violence in places like pittsburgh, charlottesville, and youre going to hear from rabbi charlie about that. Cities and towns everywhere in between my own town, my own state. And even here. The United States capital. And all over america, there is not a place that you can go where jewish people have not been threatened. We havent been harassed. We have not encountered antisemitic conspiracy theories online. We see where people have been viciously beaten. We see where they have been killed. Just because of who they are. Just because of who we are. We see those horrendous attachment jewish communities on schools and our College Campuses, and jewish owned places of business. And even our places of worship. And the people who commit these acts want to send a message. They want to scare us. They want to intimidate us. And it is critical that we send a clear message right back to them. We sent that forceful response. That we will not be intimidated and we will not accept hate in any one of our communities. [applause] because as we know, throughout history, antisemitism has often been the canary in the coal mine of rising hatred, and so many other things. When antisemitism does occur, it is up to each one of us, jews, and nonjews, to stand up and take notice and to speak out. There is no room for antisemitic hate in our communities or hate anywhere in this country or in others. [applause] so i am going to say it again. We have a responsibility to stand up and condemn this rise in aggression and violence. We have a response guilty to stand in solidarity with all those who are impacted. We have a responsibility to stand up and fight back, to light a path forward, and we cannot and we must not be silent. This is an issue i have worked to address, something i have worked on for the house and not in the house and now the senate. Preserving our places of worship and our kennedys from threats of violence. It is why i launched the first ever Senate Caucus on jewish black relations to bring together two vibrant communities. To communities that have far too often faced hate and violence. They want to we want to Work Together to tackle bigotry, and tackle it head on. That is why i found it the first ever Bipartisan Task force for combating sit antisemitism. [applause] and in congress, we have helped to elevate the specific the position to combat antisemitism to the rank of ambassador and triple the special envoys budget. They need the funds to carry out their mission. If i could successfully push the white house to combat antisemitism, and we have more than tripled funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to protect jewish institutions from terror attacks, from violence, and from vandalism, from all of it. [applause] students need to hear these stories. Added together, with organizations like the adl, with all of you and all of your networks and all of the things that you care about, we will keep pushing forward to educate society and to hopefully one day eradicate antisemitism. So i know you have a terrific lineup of speakers and panels, and i know all the exciting things that youre going to collaborate on and build a future to not just fight and i semitism for jews in america and around the world, but a time and a place for everyone. I thank you for the work that you do, for all that you do, for the leadership that you take your time and you spend it on this, it is an incredibly important issue and i want you to know that i probably stayed with you in the mission to build a world free from hate. Thank you. [applause] please work of the Cape InstituteMccain Institute. Welcome the director of the Mccain Institute. Hello everyone. First i was generally waving and then i saw some friends which was very exciting. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to represent the Mccain Institute today. Thank you to Jonathan Goldblatt and all of our partners. The relationship between the Mccain Institute, which is an institute that is only 10 years old, dating back to two years old, getting back to 2019, and we think its fitting that we work with the adl combating antisemitism and promoting democracy and the United States. That is because the Mccain Institute was inspired by the late the legacy of the late john mccain, and we fight for democracy, Human Dignity and security. Our program is to prevent targeted violence and promote the raucously dust hit dovetails with the adls important mission. The work of both of our organizations as you would imagine is not only domestic but global. The u. S. Secretary general stated in the 21 addressed to the Human Rights Council that White Supremacy and neonazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. Today, these extremist movements represent the number one internal Security Threat in several countries. Unfortunate, the United States is one of those countries. The fbi reports that there was a 32 increase in domestic terrorist incidents from 2020 2021, and in march 2021, the director to testimony to the Senate Judiciary committee where he said quote the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now, and it is not going away anytime soon. In his october 2020 home threat assessment, the department of Homeland Security said that racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically White Supremacists, will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland. Arresting the mobilization from hate to violence requires innovative solution, solutions, and widespread knowledge sharing. That is what brings all of us together today. We know that threat we face is one that we have seen repeatedly throughout history. My parents are hungarian refugees who fled communist hungary in 1956. And my Family History has shaped my personal worldview. My grandparents in hungary had many jewish friends and bore witness to the hate and violence that they faced. They resisted as best they could, and they refused to join the hungarian fascists and nazis. My grandfather served as a transitional head of the hungarian radio because it was a known fact that he was antinazi and likely to be acceptable to the communists. They fired him once they figured out he was not interested in joining the communist party. Nevertheless, as you can imagine i grew up reading books about , the holocaust. The horror that humans could inflict on one another shocked and motivated me to study ethnic conflict and serve in bosnia with the Human Rights Organization security and cooperation in europe right after the war ended and its also why i joined the institute almost a year ago. The Mccain Institute eight year ago. A year ago. I joined to work with other organizations like abl and government to fight for democracy and prevent violence and advanced freedom for all. I dont bring up my personal experience randomly, i draw attention to the hateful antisemitic and antidemocratic policies currently espoused by hungary. The Prime Minister stokes antisemitism, fascism is a deliberate part of his populist policies. Domestically he has eroded and attempted to destroy democracy. He has forged a partnership with Vladimir Putin, who i dont need to remind any of you is a genocidal war criminal, now indicted and wanted by the International Criminal court for the abduction and forced deportation of thousands of ukrainian children. I am certain that he will face additional indictment. Victor orbach has spoken here in the United States in texas a year ago trying to spread his recipe for essentially crating authoritarian governments out of democracies. Despite strides in human rights and democracy after world war ii, the institution that we established to prevent another global war and to prevent holocaust are currently being challenged today. Vladimir putin would like to destroy the Current International order, to revert back to a sphere of influence system where large states dictate what small states do, and large states existing competition, and where economic and military competition leads to war. He has blatantly violated the geneva conventions established to protect civilians. Vladimir putin initiated his acts of aggression against ukraine with the false claim that russia was fighting naziism in ukraine, a country led by a jewish president and Prime Minister. According to put in himself, namely the Russian Imperial Movement and the wagner group, who have been in the headlines for their bloody deeds lately. He has worked to build an alliance of an authoritarian regime to operate against the International Rule of law and global human rights. Their tactics are h old, tried and true. They include the use of disinformation, including stereotypical antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories. They include provided promoting violence and scapegoating as a means to maintain political control. The threat they face today extends the young russias war in ukraine. It is here in our backyard in our schools, in our halls of congress, and among our members. Just over three years ago on january 6, 2021, with a physical attack on the u. S. Capitol, the United States witness witness an assault on its own democracy the likes of which we had not seen since the civil war. We are witnessing a sustained spiked of hate crime, intolerance, and polarization. As the latest report makes clear, hatred against jews has stepped up on the left and the right. Our Democratic Institutions are being tested in every election at all levels of government from national to local. Conspiracy theories like those of qanon and global jewish hegemony are now in common discourse among americans online and pundits on television. According to newsweek polls taken last year, nearly 40 of Americans Still believe that the 2020 election was stolen or raped. According to the Public Religion Research institute, nearly one in five americans believe in qanon conspiracy theories. Already this year, at least 385 lgbtq laws have been introduced at the state level in the state Legislature According to the aclu. Nearly a quarter of americans say it is sometimes ok to use violence against the government. And one in 10 americans say violence is justified quote right now. According to freedom house, we are in our 16th Consecutive Year of International Democratic backsliding. Our democracy score fell by 11 points on a 100 point scale in the last decade from 2020 from 20202020. And we are supposed to be the leader among democracies. So what we do . The first and most vital thing is to continue to increase our support to ukraine and to prevail upon all other countries, including israel, to do so as well. If Vladimir Putin is not defeated on the battlefield is revanche as Foreign Policy will not die is revanche cast Foreign Policy will not die. Nato is the only alliance if putin challenges nato they , then we will end up fighting a global war. So to prevent the spread of war from ukraine, we must stop putin in ukraine. All nations to benefit from the Current International order must understand the human rights of all depend upon our ability to stand up for the autocrats. If putin is weakened, the Global Movement will lose deeds. President xi jinping will draw from his own territorial area and leaders will no longer have powerful friends to offer corrupt support. We must also confront populism here at home. Im proud to say we have been leading efforts on the national stage. Weve done great Work Together and this will inform what we do next. Adl in the institute posted the summit last year the white house and of Administration Officials on u. S. Policy to capture domestic violent extremism but we are integral in the creation and the white house policy june 2021 and violence in the United States. It was based on a blueprint for making institute and center for american, published together and reflected priorities of the project plan to fight domestic terrorism. Adl provides initial support to the Mccain Institute of medicine Practitioners Network in 2020, oneofakind network of professionals designed to help expertise to address targeted violence, terrorism and the impacts within the United States states. This network we established has over 1000 professionals in all 50 states bringing together leading experts in psychology, psychiatry, social work, Law Enforcement, community and public safety, and education to develop a community practice. It did not exist before we created it and its 1000 practitioners and growing. [applause] and it is thanks to adl because they provided advice to us since the inception and it sits on the advisory board. We have National Campaign we started last year the Mccain Institute. The campaign compact the spread of online hate including , antisemitism and provides parents and provides resources to understand how social media platforms work to explain how , young adults are exposed to hate online, and how young adults might be recruited into identifying with extremist national network. If you go to screenhate. Org, he does you will see we break down complex issues of hate and violence and extremism in this format the essential database of. Hate, its throughout the United States. Our partnership grows stronger every year because the challenges we face unfortunately continue to grow and because our missions are so closely aligned. Everyone in the room is keenly aware of the work that still needs to be done. Nothing is inevitable, and we cannot take our freedom for granted. As senator john mccain put it in his farewell statement before his death, we are citizens of the worlds greatest republic. A nation of ideals. We are blessed and are a blessing to community when we advance those ideals at home and the world. Lets keep doing that. All of us, every day, united as americans and as humans. Thank you. [applause] it is my pleasure and privilege to invite rabbi Charlie Citron Walker to the stage. [applause] rabbi walker how are you all doing today .