Dov Hikind, former Democratic New York State Assemblyman, discusses his presence at Rutger's University, where he stood up in a room of 600 people and challenged Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's blood libel against the Jewish people. Hikind founded Americans Against Anti-Semitism to challenge the out of control hate against Jews in America. He speaks of the rise of open assaults against Jews in New York.

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"You're walking in a very heavily Jewish area, and someone comes up to you and just belts you in the head...for no other reason than you're a Jew. There's no one looking to take your phone or wallet or anything else. It is literally raw hatred toward a Jew."
— Hikind

Dov Hikind discuss his presence at Rutger's University Muslims 4 Peace event featuring Rashida Tlaib. Hikind decided to go to the event peacefully, where he sat through three hours of speakers before asking Tlaib why she retweeted a blood libel tweet pushing fake news of a child's death to her one million followers -- and then never apologized for it when it was discovered the child had accidentally drowned through no fault of anyone.

Hikind urges people to challenge hatred. It's not enough to send a press release or simply condemn the hate.

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"This is the worst thing of all, I have to tell you. It's not what Rashida Tlaib did, which is terrible. It is the silence of democratic leaders. Not one, not one single person -- not Schumer, not Nadler, not Schiff, not Pelosi -- no one said one single world. Imagine if a Republican had said the same thing. Can you imagine? They'd be debating it on MSNBC and CNN. They'd be writing about it in the Washington Post and New York Times. Silence is dangerous. My mother went to Auschwitz in 1944. My grandparents went straight to the gas chambers -- all because of hate, hate toward the Jewish people. My grandparents didn't do anything to anybody. But they were murdered by those who hated Jews."

— Dov Hikind

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