New York City Insider: Members of the Latino Jewish Caucus Condemn Antisemitic Attack on Jewish Community in Massachusetts.

 

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 12, 2022

Members of the Latino Jewish Caucus Condemn Antisemitic Attack on Jewish Community in Massachusetts. Decries Mapping Project Targeting of Jewish Places of Worship, Businesses, Schools, and Other Public Centers.   WASHINGTON, DC – Today, members of the Latino Jewish Caucus issued the following statement to condemn The Mapping Project’s compilation of locations targeting Jewish places of worship, businesses, schools, and other public centers: “We are deeply concerned over the targeting of the Jewish Community in Massachusetts by The Mapping Project and find it troubling that this implicit antisemitic attack directed towards our Jewish brothers and sisters has been allowed to happen,” stated the members. “The Mapping Project has explicitly stated that the intention of its collective mapping is to reveal local Jewish entities and networks to specifically dismantle and disrupt them. We have witnessed far too many hate-based attacks on places of worship, businesses, schools, and public facilities, to wait silently for the next incident to take place. Antisemitic attacks have risen by 42% in Massachusetts while nationwide there has been a 34% uptick. As members of the Latino Jewish Caucus, we stand united with the Jewish community in our response to condemn this hate and xenophobic actions that provoke antisemitism, hate motivation, or incitement of violence,” the members continued. The recent surge in racist and xenophobic incidents in the United States and globally demands advocacy and engagement from civic and faith leaders to denounce all forms of violent xenophobic acts, attitudes and expressions that serve to alienate or endanger any group of people. These attitudes should never be tolerated and have no place in our society today. We vow to continue to utilize all resources at our disposal, including increased security for those communities vulnerable to hate crimes, enhanced coordination among security and intelligence agencies, and the development of a national strategy to combat this scourge,” the members concluded. Co-chaired by Reps. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL-25), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23), and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA-03), the Latino Jewish Caucus continues its critical work fostering close collaboration between the U.S. Latino and Jewish communities, fighting the uptick in antisemitism and other forms of hate while strengthening trilateral ties among the U.S., Latin America and Israel based on shared histories, values, and interests.   Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill and the north-west Bronx. First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat is serving his third term in Congress. Representative Espaillat currently serves as a member of the influential U.S. House Committee on Appropriations responsible for funding the federal government’s vital activities. He is also a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), where he serves in a leadership role as the Second Vice Chair and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, where he serves as Deputy Whip. Representative Espaillat also currently serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus. To find out more about Rep. Espaillat, visit online at https://espaillat.house.gov/.