CNN's Jake Tapper asked guests on a news segment Monday if they though media coverage of recent anti-Semitic hate crimes would be different if the attackers were 'white supremacists.'
, host Jake Tapper addressed the rise in anti-Semitic attacks by questioning how reaction to the recent uptick in hate crimes against Jewish people had been committed by"white supremacists."
"I do," Weiss said,"and the reason for that is because it took a man walking in with a machete the size of a broomstick for there to be any public outrage during the holiday of Hanukkah."on a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York which sent five Jewish people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
After describing the difficulty in getting people to talk about the attack on a Kosher supermarket in a New Jersey neighborhood Weiss said,"When the person is wearing a MAGA hat or when they can be connected to the alt-right, that's sort of a clean case, right? It is someone who we all—people of conscience see as a villain but what happens when the person who is an attacker is someone when we—I mean when I say 'we,' I mean we people of conscience—see as someone who themselves...
"I think that one of the challenges that we face is that anti-Semitism is a bipartisan issue, it's an all-partisan issue, it is not an issue that is just connected to one particular racial group," Coaston said."It is something that infects and morphs and defigures people and communities. It's something that we have to be ready to speak out against."
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