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        <title><![CDATA[Ronald Lauder opens online portal to report coronavirus hate crimes]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder has launched a new <strong>online portal</strong> to track the prevalence of coronavirus-fueled hate crimes.</p><p>Lauder&#8217;s <strong>Anti-Semitism Accountability Project</strong> set up the website to collect reports of physical and online attacks on Asian-Americans, Jews and other groups whom bigots have falsely blamed for the pandemic.</p><p>The billionaire former Estee Lauder chairman aims to turn those reports into hard data that lawmakers and advocates can use to fight discrimination linked to the virus crisis.</p><p>&#8220;What our job is to do is to pull together, put a face on it, put emotion on it, and then talk about it,&#8221; Lauder told The Post on Tuesday. &#8220;We have so many problems potentially that unless we are able to bring this into focus, it will become diffuse.&#8221;</p><p><span >The Anti-Semitism Accountability Project — Lauder&#8217;s $25 million campaign against hatred of Jews — launched the new portal in partnership with the America China Public Affairs Institute, a nonprofit focused on US-China relations.</span></p><p>The effort comes amid a recent uptick in <strong>coronavirus-related hate crimes</strong> in New York City that have primarily targeted Asian people. The Anti-Defamation League has also said internet conspiracy theorists are propagating <strong>&#8220;antisemitic tropes&#8221;</strong> by baselessly pinning the pandemic on powerful Jews such as George Soros.</p><p>That hate has sometimes bled into the real world, like when fears about the coronavirus drove extremist Timothy Wilson to <strong>plot a hospital bombing</strong> in Missouri. Wilson was killed last month in a shootout with FBI agents as they tried to arrest him.</p><p>&#8220;This sounds almost like in the 15th, 16th century, the Jews were blamed for the bubonic plague,&#8221; Lauder said. &#8220;This has been used very much by anti-Semitic groups all over.&#8221;</p><p>Lauder said the portal is part of a strategic shift for the Anti-Semitism Accountability Project, which was conceived as a political campaign targeting candidates and cultural leaders who condoned animus toward Jews.</p><p>The project will start working on campaigns against anti-Semitism more broadly as well as getting involved in particular races, according to Lauder, who also serves as president of the World Jewish Congress.</p><p><span >&#8220;I</span><span >t’s all political,&#8221; he said.</span></p>]]></content:encoded>
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