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A Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) delegation made an official visit to Chile last week, as part of CAM en Español’s continuing outreach and engagement across Latin America.
The delegation included Chair of the CAM Advisory Board for Latin America Pilar Rahola and CAM Manager of Hispanic Affairs Nurit Caplivschi.
The itinerary featured a series of meetings with leading national and local decision and policymakers and representatives of the Jewish Community of Chile, Nueva Bnei Israel, and the Jewish Museum of Chile.
The main event was lecture by Rahola to an audience of more than 300 people on the geopolitical future of the Middle East.
“We are very grateful to the Jewish Community of Chile, its president, Dr. Alfredo Misraji, and its executive director, Dafne Englander, with whom we have been working together for a long time,” Caplivschi said. “With their support, several Chilean legislators have participated in CAM’s annual regional forums and a Chilean mayor joined a delegation of Latin American mayors on a CAM-organized trip to Israel. CAM Director of Hispanic Affairs Shay Salamon previously visited Chile, and we returned now to continue to strengthen our joint work with the Community.”
In collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Chile and the Jewish Community of Chile, CAM’s “No Discriminarás” (“Thou Shall Not Discriminate”) traveling art exhibit will arrive in the country in August and be displayed in Santiago and Colina. Caplivschi expressed gratitude to President of the Jewish Museum of Chile Dalia Pollak and Executive Director Sofia Cohen for their partnership in this initiative.
“Undoubtedly, this is an important tool to understand the absurdity of hatred and discrimination,” she said.
The Chile trip followed a similar visit by a CAM delegation to neighboring Argentina the previous week.
CAM’s outreach in Latin America began four years ago, and since then it has worked diligently to build meaningful partnerships and friendships with influential leaders, legislators, diplomats, community organizations, and civil society activists from a diverse assortment of religious, political and cultural backgrounds in the region to combat antisemitism together.
During this time, CAM en Español has emerged as a key player in the battle against Jew-hatred in Latin America, with a growing coalition involved in impactful activities in countries including Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, and Bolivia, 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.
