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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

DAIA Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations)

Police officers stand guard on Mayo Avenue in Buenos Aires after the Israeli embassy received a bomb threat, Oct. 18, 2023 (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
October 19, 2023, 8:50 am
US and Israeli embassies hit with bomb threats in Buenos Aires
Argentina boosts security at locations as well as at Jewish institutions; local Jewish leader: ‘They are coming for democracy, not only Jews,’ but ‘we are not canceling anything’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at a press conference announcing the Jewish Security Alliance at the ADL's investigative research lab. Behind him is Scott Richman, the regional director of ADL’s New York-New Jersey Office, CSS CEO Evan Bernstein and CSI Executive Director Mitch Silber. (Jacob Henry via JTA)
July 25, 2023, 10:15 am
ADL sets up a 7-country international task force on antisemitism
The American group’s partners in the J7 initiative are major Jewish communal organizations in Britain, France, Germany, Argentina, Canada and Australia
By ToI Staff
Police found Nazi literature, weapons and other troubling objects during a raid in Tucuman, Argentina. (Tucuman Federal Prosecutor No. 2 via JTA)
May 1, 2021, 9:19 am
Argentine police say they thwarted neo-Nazi attack on synagogue; 2 arrested
Officials say they believe group was planning Shabbat assault; guns, knives, radio communications equipment and Nazi literature found during raids
By JTA
A screenshot from the viral video of Chacarita fans chanting an anti-Semitic line shows them marching near a bonfire on the street. (via JTA)
March 26, 2021, 9:12 am
Anger after Argentine soccer fans chant about ‘killing the Jews to make soap’
Umbrella organization DAIA files criminal complaint against Chacarita Juniors fans for song against supporters of team with traditionally Jewish fanbase
By JTA
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem sits in a courthouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 28, 2019. (Natacha Pisarenko/ AP)
February 17, 2021, 1:26 pm
Argentine Jewish group slams deceased ex-president cleared of bombing coverup
Hours after his death, organization laments that Carlos Menem died a free man despite his government’s meddling in probe into those who committed and abetted AMIA, embassy attacks
By JTA
Jorge Knoblovits heads the Jewish umbrella group DAIA in Argentina. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)
February 13, 2021, 8:03 am
Argentine Jewish leader gets police protection following anti-Semitic threat
Letter urges Jorge Knoblovits to leave country; previously threatened when Hezbollah was declared a terror group and in connection with probe into 1994 Jewish center bombing
By JTA
Anti-Semitic posters blaming Jews for the COVID-19 pandemic in the southern Argentine city of Neuquen.(JMNeuquen/ Twitter)
August 25, 2020, 11:26 am
‘Jews are the virus’ posters show up in Argentina
National Jewish umbrella body, DAIA, condemns signs in southern city of Neuquen, which has a 0.13% Jewish population
By JTA
Illustrative: A view of Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 24, 2019 (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
October 3, 2019, 11:36 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina more than doubled in 2018
‘We are losing cultural battle against hate speech,’ says Jewish leader after report finds massive jump in online expressions of anti-Jewish hatred
By JTA
This photograph from the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association shows damage to a Jewish cemetery in La Tablada, Argentina, which was vandalized on September 28, 2019. (AMIA)
September 30, 2019, 11:23 am
Jewish cemetery near Buenos Aires vandalized
Local Jewish organizations call for investigation after graveyard in La Tablada damaged ahead of Rosh Hashanah
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Shlomo Tawil, head of the Chabad House in Rosario, Argentina. (Facebook)
June 12, 2019, 11:46 pm
Argentina Jews call for action after spate of anti-Semitic attacks
Assault on rabbi prompts fresh concern over rising violence against Jews in country, which for first time has an anti-Jewish presidential candidate
By JTA
Argentina’s ambassador to Haiti Pedro Von Eyken. (Facebook)
June 2, 2019, 8:58 pm
Argentine envoy to Haiti slammed for Nazi tweet
Ambassador Pedro Von Eyken deletes Twitter account shortly after saying he salutes Argentine army ‘as the son of a German officer of World War II’
By JTA
A campaign banner for Argentine politician Alejandro Biondini. (Twitter)
May 28, 2019, 7:36 pm
Anti-Semitic Argentine politician kicks off campaign, vows to expel Israel envoy
‘This is Argentina … this is not Israel’ ultra-nationalist Alejandro Biondini tells Jewish community; in the past he has praised Hitler, condemned ‘genocidal Zionism’
By JTA
Libertador Avenue in North Palermo, Buenos Aires.(Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
May 23, 2019, 6:31 pm
Rabbi attacked on Buenos Aires street by group shouting anti-Semitic slurs
Eli Chamen suffers a broken hand in assault as he walks home from synagogue on Saturday night, says witnesses laughed as he was beaten
By JTA and ToI Staff
The Buenos Aires skyline. (CC-BY-SA Patricio Dünkler/Wikipedia)
April 8, 2019, 3:09 pm
Jewish group says attack on synagogue in Argentina was anti-Semitic
Umbrella organization says Friday attack by homeless couple was triggered by deterioration of society’s support networks
By JTA
Argentina's former president and elected senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaks to reporters as she leaves the court in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2017. (AFP/Eitan Abramovich)
February 3, 2019, 9:01 pm
Argentina Jews tussle over lawsuit against former president Kirchner
Buenos Aires Jewish Center sends public letter to umbrella group, asking it to remove itself from suit, since it delves into politics ahead of elections
By JTA
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