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Argentina asks Qatar to arrest high-ranking Iranian official

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Mohsen Rezai, Iran’s vice president for economic affairs, is wanted by Argentine prosecutors for alleged involvement in planning the July 18, 1994, terrorist attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA, which killed...
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, appears in a French court in 2011. Source: Screenshot.

Carlos the Jackal: ‘I was the first-ever foreigner to join the Palestinian struggle’

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is an international terrorist who for decades was the most wanted fugitive in the world. Born in Venezuela to a wealthy family, his father was a...
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky.

Israel, Argentina sign agreement to share Holocaust archives

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Argentina agreed to share archival records about Jews who fled the Holocaust to the country this week in a new agreement signed between Yad Vashem‒The World Holocaust Remembrance Center and the Archivo General de la Nación (General Archive...
Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina dedicated to the 85 people killed and more than 300 others injured during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, on July 18, 2022. Photo by Ellie Cohanim.

Pro-Israel entities in Latin America work to battle anti-Semitism, promote co-existence

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The deadliest post-Holocaust attack on Jews was an outside job. While commemorating the 1994 AMIA bombing this week, those fighting Jew-hatred in Latin America vowed not to let homegrown anti-Semitism go unchecked. The second Latin American...
Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina dedicated to the 85 people killed and 300 others injured during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2022. Source: Twitter/The Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Latin American Forum to combat anti-Semitism timed to AMIA bombing event

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B’nai B’rith director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn and Special Advisor on Latin American and U.N. Affairs Adriana Camisar participated in the Latin American Forum to Combat Anti-Semitism in Buenos Aires, Argentina, organized...
Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina dedicated to the 85 people killed and 300 others injured during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2022. Source: AMIA.

In Argentina and Bulgaria, recalling two deadly terrorist attacks

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Thousands of people attended a memorial event in Argentina on Monday dedicated to the 85 people killed during the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. They came to read the names of the victims,...
Iván Duque durante su reciente visita a Israel Foto archivo Juan Pablo Bello Presidencia de la República de Colombia

The president of Colombia condemns the use of symbols allusive to the Holocaust

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"Any apology for Nazism is unacceptable and I condemn any manifestation that makes use or reference to symbols alluding to those who were responsible for the Jewish holocaust that took the lives of more...
Brazilian flag. Credit: Jiri Flogel/Shutterstock.

Brazil, with its large Jewish community, joins IHRA as observer country

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Brazil joined the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) last month as an observer country, the government announced in a released statement. The IHRA unites governments, international organizations and experts who have the common goal of combating...

The Argentine Ahmadia Muslim Community Adopts the Definition of Anti-Semitism

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In the framework of an activity organized by the Free Chair on Holocaust, Genocides and the Fight against Discrimination of the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, the President of the Ahmadia...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Máduro meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in November 2016. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Hezbollah operatives being sheltered in Venezuela, hacker group claims

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Hezbollah operatives are living freely in Venezuela under the protection of President Nicolás  Maduro’s government, according to a hacker collective aligned with the Venezuelan opposition. In an operation the hackers said had been carried out...