Florida Mayor Leads International Coalition Of Colleagues To Combat Anti-Semitism

Standing before hundreds of mayors from Europe, Israel and the United States, Mayor Gabriel Groisman of Bal Harbour, Florida, was joined by Mayor Uwe Becker of Frankfurt, Germany and Mayor Haim Bibas of Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, Israel, in announcing the launch of Global Mayors Coalition Against Hate, Anti-semitism and BDS.

The new alliance was announced in Tel Aviv Wednesday evening at the Muni-Expo 2019, the annual international municipal conference. Hosted by the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, Mayors Bibas, Becker and Groisman, along with mayors from Argentina, Spain, Israel, and the United States, determined in a private meeting “the need to have a unified and strong approach to put an end to hate, discrimination, anti-Semitism, and anti-Semitic movements such as BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement].”