Almost five months to the day after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence was set on fire, he took the stage at the fifth annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit, to call for unity and moral clarity as political and hate-fueled violence continue to rise across the country.

Mr. Shapiro and his family had gone to sleep after celebrating the first night of Passover last April, when they were awoken by State Police officers pounding on their doors telling them to evacuate.

Alleged arsonist Cody Balmer had snuck past the security and used a Molotov cocktail to start the fires. He later told police that he targeted the governor because of “what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” police records said.

“This type of violence has no place in our society, regardless of what motivates it,

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