Michigan Democrat State Senator Noah Arbit, whose district includes Temple Israel:
“I wanna — your viewers to really understand that when we talk about anti-Semitism, it's — it's live. It's real. It's not something that's from the 1930s. It is a real, deadly threat against your Jewish neighbors all across the United States and in the country...I think it's really important to understand that the relationship between hate speech and hate violence is cause and effect. And so, when people don't stand up and speak out or — or even worse, justify anti-Jewish rhetoric or discourse, it becomes a permission structure for people to view all Jews and Jewish institutions as legitimate targets of violence.”
“It's part of our value system that we want to build bridges with other communities and with other types of people. And the idea that the Jewish community would come for such vitriol and such targeted attack, both rhetorical and in terms of physical violence, is — it’s shocking, it's sad, and it must end.”