Q Week 11 & 12- Religious Based Hate Crimes As you covered in this week's course materials, the Jewish people have been scapegoated for thousands of years. While Jewish people comprise only about 3% of the American population, they are overwhelmingly the targets of religious hate crimes in America (63%). With the growth of anti-Semitism in groups such as white nationalists, Christian Nationalists, and QAnon, anti-Semitic rhetoric has moved into the mainstream public discourse. In fact, a few of the most recent attacks on synagogues in the United States have parroted the rhetoric shared by these groups on social media, and even some of the rhetoric espoused by political leaders. 1) Do you believe our political leaders--at local, state, and national levels-have any responsibility to provide a legitimate counter-narrative to the hate espoused against the Jews? 2) Do you believe political leaders (at any level) have any culpability in the terror and violence directed at Jews? If yes, why? If not, why not?