CAM Touts Interfaith Cooperation in Fight Against Jew-Hatred at Brazil-Israel Dialogue on Antisemitism

The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) participated on Tuesday in a meeting of the Brazil-Israel Dialogue on Antisemitism attended by government officials and diplomats from both countries, as well as institutional and organizational officials and Brazilian Jewish communal leaders.

CAM was represented at the one-day virtual gathering by CEO Sacha Roytman Dratwa and Director of Hispanic Outreach Shay Salamon.

Roytman Dratwa spoke on the topic of “Avenues for Brazilian-Israeli Cooperation on Fighting Antisemitism and Racism.”

“Brazil is home to the second-largest Jewish community in the Latin America, and it is an important focus point for our coalition-building activities,” he said. “We look forward to continued collaboration with Brazilian partners to promote the values of interfaith tolerance, equality, and diversity in the country and across the region in the years ahead.”

Additional topics on the forum’s agenda included online hate speech and Holocaust education and remembrance, among others.

Brazilian Israelite Confederation (CONIB) Director General Sérgio Napchan commented, “It was a very rich dialogue and an excellent initiative.”

The full list of participants in the Brazil-Israel Dialogue Antisemitism follows —

Israel:
– Ambassador Jonathan Peled, Deputy Director General for Central, South America, and
the Caribbean, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
– Ambassador Daniel Zonshine, Israel’s Ambassador in Brazil
Ambassador Rafael Erdreich, Israel’s Consul General in Sao Paulo
– Ms. Shuli Davidovich, Head of Bureau for Jewish Diaspora and World Religions
– Ambassador Ruth Cohen-Dar, Director of Department for Combating Antisemitism and
Holocaust Remembrance, Co-Head of the Israeli delegation to IHRA
– Ms. Vivian Aisen, Director of Department for Central America
– Ms. Tamar Schwarzbard, Head of Social Media, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
– Mr. Amit Efrati, Director of Department for Combating Antisemitism, Ministry of
Diaspora Affairs & Combating Antisemitism
– Mr. Yossi Gevir, Senior Advisor, International Affairs & Communications Division, Yad Vashem
Co-Head of the Israeli delegation to IHRA
– Ms. Eliana Rapp Badihi, Head of Educational Programs for Spanish and Portuguese Educators, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
– Mr. Sacha Roytman Dratwa, Director, Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM)

Brazil:
– Director of the Middle East Department, Minister Clélio Nivaldo Crippa Filho
– Head of the Near East Division, Counselor Antonio Carlos Antunes Santos
– Deputy Head of the Human Rights Division, Secretary Eduardo Galvão
– Deputy Head of the Near East Division, Secretary Everaldo Cunha
– Head of the Educational Cooperation Division, Francisco de Souza
– Head of the International Advisory of the Ministry of Education, Roseli Teixeira Alves
– General Coordinator of International Affairs for the Ministry of Human Rights and
Citizenship, Douglas Rodrigues
– General Coordinator of International Racial Justice for the Ministry of Racial Equality, Kátia Evangelista Regis
– Professor Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro (University of São Paulo)
– Abraham Goldstein (B’nai B’rith Brazil)
– Carlos Reiss (Holocaust Museum of Curitiba)
– Sérgio Napchan (Brazilian Israeli Confederation – CONIB)