00:00So terrorism is still a big problem, according to your assessment.
00:04What would you like to see the U.S. government and other governments, our partners, our allies, do about it?
00:09Well, the most important thing is, first, just to recognize that it's still a priority.
00:15And unfortunately, we've seen a lot of terrorism that's been targeting Jewish people.
00:20We often hear, well, it couldn't happen here.
00:22Fifteen Jews gunned down celebrating Hanukkah on Bondi Beach.
00:27Well, that's in Australia. It couldn't happen here.
00:29It's happening here. It has happened here, here in Washington, not that far from where we're sitting right now.
00:35Two employees of the Israeli embassy were gunned down at an event not too many months ago.
00:40And we also saw in Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, an arson attack against a number of peaceful protesters
00:46who are calling for the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
00:52And so anti-Semitism is not an over-there problem. It's a here problem as well.
00:57The first thing we need to do is confront this ageless, timeless evil that is still on the march today.
01:05And it's very easy to condemn acts of violence.
01:07We stand with the Jewish community.
01:09It's going to take more than just condemning acts of violence.
01:12We also have to condemn the hateful ideology, the anti-Semitic ideology,
01:17that incubates and nurtures these acts of violence, these acts of terrorism.
01:22We have to confront the ideas.
01:24And that doesn't mean censorship. That doesn't mean the government locking people up.
01:28That's what they do in Europe. They put people in jail for mean tweets.
01:31That's not the American way.
01:33The American way is counter-speech.
01:35More protesters out in the streets demonstrating in support of our peaceful Jewish neighbors.
01:41More statements by government officials saying that anti-Semitism is unacceptable
01:46and we're not going to accept it here.
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