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During a visit to South Florida on Thursday, Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Sacha Roytman appeared on former Bal Harbour Mayor Gabriel Groisman’s “Standpoint” podcast, sharing his insights on the global rise of antisemitism and presenting CAM’s efforts to fight it through collaborative action at the policymaking and grassroots levels.
Watch the conversation HERE:
Roytman spoke on Wednesday at the third annual Countering Antisemitism Summit in Palm Beach, Florida, highlighting the need for Jewish unity and interfaith allyship in the aftermath of the October 7th attack in Israel.
“While in Israel, Jews are targeted by Hamas and Hezbollah, Diaspora Jews are under threat from the extreme left, extreme right, and radical Islamists who have found in antisemitism a common cause,” Roytman said. “80 years after the Holocaust, I hear voices, including here in Florida, asking where we should go in case it gets worse. So here I am to tell you that we are fighting, that our team and organization since October 7th have stopped sleeping and stopped compromising or playing unnecessary political games. There is only one truth — Jews should feel protected and safe. We will not erase antisemitism, but we can’t accept that any Jew in the world feels threatened for being Jewish. This is our mission, and we will prevail.”
Earlier this week, more than a dozen local mayors and other elected officials convened at City Hall in Hollywood, Florida, for a dialogue organized by CAM on municipal approaches to tackling antisemitism.
“Florida has been a safe place for Jews until now, but antisemitism is also getting worse here now like elsewhere in the United States,” Rotyman said. But I think because we have the support of so many mayors here and the strong Jewish community here, Florida can be a model to teach the rest of the country how mayors can have an impact in fighting antisemitism.”
