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The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) works hand-in-hand with law enforcement authorities on a daily basis to secure Jewish life globally.
Over the past two years, CAM-organized law enforcement seminars have been held in New York, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Virginia. The purpose of the training is to teach police how to recognize and address antisemitism in all its contemporary forms and offer strategies and tools to prevent, respond to, and counter it.
As part of this initiative, CAM President of U.S. Affairs Alyza Lewin addressed the opening general session of the 2026 National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) Annual Conference on Monday in Omaha, Nebraska. Also representing CAM at the forum was Senior Advisor Joel Eisdorfer and Chief Government Affairs Officer Lisa Katz.
In her presentation to around 1,100 law enforcement officials from across the United States, Lewin noted that 2025 saw a surge of lethal acts of antisemitism — including deadly attacks in Washington, D.C., and Boulder, Colorado, as well as an arson incident targeting the official Harrisburg residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.
“This rise in violent antisemitism has understandably caused a majority of Jews in America to feel less safe today than they felt a year ago,” Lewin said. “Your Jewish community is scared. They are scared because they know the lethal antisemitism is not happening in a vacuum. It is following an age-old pattern — where Jews are first demonized, accused of harming humanity or blamed for why things go wrong. Then when those conspiracy theories gain traction, society turns on the Jews.”
“Today our society is being radicalized,” Lewin added. “Traditional antisemitic tropes are being disseminated by social media platforms, educators, and public figures. Our youth are being fed a steady diet of misinformation promoted by entities that not only hate Jews but oppose the values upon which America was founded.”
Lewin pointed to recent findings by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) exposing how major social media platforms amplify antisemitic content to vast audiences online.
“Meta, TikTok, and YouTube are not acting as passive billboards,” she noted. “They are not merely posting content and then showing it only to those who search for it. No — as CAM has now documented, the social media platforms all employ algorithms that actively push antisemitic conspiracy theories out to millions of users who then like and share them with millions more.”
“So to effectively address today’s antisemitism,” Lewin added, “it is essential that we do more than enforce time, place, and manner restrictions. We have to dig deeper and learn more about who are the entities that are facilitating the mayhem and funding the hate.”
Lewin concluded with a call for collaboration. “We look forward to helping you protect not only your Jewish community members, but all Americans from the hate that is threatening our country’s well-being,” she said.
For more information about CAM’s law enforcement training program and to arrange for a session in your state, city, or town, please send an email to: info@combatantisemitism.org
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