FL-25: Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz said recent anti-semitic attacks is one of the reasons he is running for re-election

Congressman Jared Moskowitz cited the wave of recent anti-semitic attacks that he and other members of Congress have faced in recent months as one of the reasons why he decided to run for re-election.

"My grandmother was part of the Kindertransport out of Berlin as a child, her parents were killed in Auschwitz. Her and her sister survived because good people shipped her on a train and got her out of Berlin," Moskowitz told CBS News Miami. "And the language I'm seeing today is the same language she told me about and how it all started in the Thirties. So, it's very concerning. It's really the reason [I'm running]. I decided that now's not the time to walk away, now's the time to continue my service in Congress."

Moskowitz provided CBS News Miami with copies of virulent, antisemitic voicemails his office has received, threatening to kill him and arguing for the deaths of all Jews. He has received so many threats, he said, he has a police officer assigned to sit out in front of his house. And he noted, that one of his constituents was arrested and convicted after investigators uncovered a plot to assassinate Moskowitz. That person is now currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.

"I've got two boys, my boys are not going to be hiding in attics, they're not going to hide their Jewish stars. We're not going to stop going to delis and stop going the synagogues because people are trying to scare us. And that's what Jews in this country have to do. We have to go on the offense. They want us to be scared. They want to be quiet. And I'm not willing to do that."



https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/jared-moskowitz-anti-semitism-facing-south-florida-5-31-2026/