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The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) was honored to participate this week in the National Hispanic Pastors Alliance (NAHPA) National Conference 2025 in Washington, D.C.
The annual forum convened pastors, community leaders, and influencers from across the United States and beyond for two days of worship, inspiration, and collaboration.
CAM was represented by Director of Hispanic Affairs Shay Salamon, who addressed the conference on Tuesday.
Salamon presented CAM’s global activities, including its interfaith work, and offered insights on the latest antisemitism trends and data from around the world.
“We are in a dark time,” Salamon said. “I call it the pandemic of hate. We’re seeing hatred and its manifestations against Jews, Jewish places of worship, and Jewish property, at unprecedented levels. It has always been latent, and now it seems that being antisemitic is politically correct, as it was during the time of the Holocaust.”
The conference attendees visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with lawmakers.
CAM thanks NAHPA Founder and CEO Carlos Duran for the opportunity to join this important forum and looks forward to continued cooperation and partnership moving forward.
CAM’s Spanish-language outreach began four years ago, and since then it has worked diligently to build meaningful relationships with influential leaders, legislators, diplomats, community organizations, and civil society activists from a diverse assortment of religious, political and cultural backgrounds in the Americas to combat antisemitism together.
During this time, CAM en Español has emerged as a key player in the battle against Jew-hatred throughout the Western Hemisphere, with a growing coalition involved in impactful activities in countries including Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the United States, among others.
CAM en Español has organized regional summits hosted by Costa Rica in 2024 (where 18 countries were represented), Uruguay in 2023, Panama in 2022, and Guatemala in 2021.
This October, CAM will hold the fifth-annual Latin American Forum Against Antisemitism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
