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Five years ago, this week, Frenchman Amedy Coulibaly stormed the kosher Hyper Cacher supermarket in eastern Paris, murdering four people inside.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) is urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reconsider, together with legislators, recent changes to the state’s criminal law that in effect favor perpetrators over victims of antisemitic hate crimes.

Jason Isaacson, AJC's Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer, in remarks to Congress, presented five solid recommendations for responding to antisemitic domestic terrorism.

This week on People of the Pod, we sit down with Middle East experts Patrick Clawson, Research Director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, to talk about the rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Then, Deborah Lauter, Executive Director of New York’s new Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, joins us to discuss efforts to curb the rash of antisemitic attacks across the city. Finally, in honor of AJC’s #JewishandProud Day, we went around New York City to ask people what makes them proud to be Jewish.

We all need to send the message that antisemitism in any form is unacceptable, that there is no room in these United States for bigotry or prejudice,” said Isaacson in remarks before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism.