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Today on Ask an expert, Law enforcement officials warn that hate crimes against Jewish and Arab Americans are on the rise amid the war between Israel and Hamas.. 

The troubling pattern comes at a time that these types of crimes were ALREADY trending upward, raising concerns about what could be to come.. 

To answer those questions and more KCBS Radio news anchors Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with Brian Levin, Founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernadino