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Credit Suisse headquarters at Paradeplatz in Zürich, Switzerland, July 24, 2013. Photo: Thomas Wolf via Wikimedia Commons.

Wiesenthal Center uncovers list of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina with accounts transferred to Credit...

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center announced this week that it has received a list of 12,000 Nazis living in Argentina, many of whom contributed to bank accounts at the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, which became the Credit...
Argentina's newly election president Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Source: Screenshot.

A worrying signal from Argentina

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Writing in this column back in July, I said that if Argentina was going to execute its just-announced campaign to counter the influence of Iran and its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, in Latin America, then incumbent...
Alí Akbar Velayati (left) appearing at a press conference. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Argentina asks Azerbaijan to arrest Iranian suspect in 1994 AMIA bombing

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Argentina is asking Azerbaijan to arrest an Iranian official visiting Baku in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Alí Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah...
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Quote by Abraham Joshua Heschel to be centerpiece of mural in Buenos Aires

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A quote from the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel will be at the center of a mural set to be painted in a public square in Buenos Aires at the end of November. The city...
Praying for the first time in decades in one of Argentina's oldest synagogues, August 2019. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Buenos Aires synagogue now being reclaimed after being overrun for decades by squatters

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Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary,...
The Hezbollah flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Based in Lebanon but entrenched in Latin America, Hezbollah helps Iran spread global terrorism

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It has been 25 years since Iran and Hezbollah carried out a horrific attack against a Jewish target in Buenos Aires, in which 85 Jews were murdered and more than 300 injured, yet the terror regime...
The front of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, with the names of the 85 people who died in the July 18, 1994 bombing that also left more ta 300 injured, July 18 July 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election

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In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994,...
Each year thousands gather to remember the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that left 85 people dead and more than 300 in Argentina's deadliest terrorist attack to date. July 18, 2014. Credit: Jaluj/Wikimedia Commons.

US Senate resolution marks 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires

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A resolution commemorating the 25th anniversary of AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires was introduced on Thursday in the U.S. Senate. It was introduced by Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Co-sponsors included Sens....

Argentina orders freezing of Hezbollah assets, effectively designating it a terror group

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Argentina ordered the freezing of Hezbollah assets on Thursday, effectively designating it as a terrorist entity, being the first Latin America country to do so. The move occurred on the 25th anniversary the bombing of...
Remains of the AMIA Jewish center after the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: La Nación via Wikimedia Commons.

House introduces bipartisan resolution to mark AMIA bombing, seek justice

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A bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives was introduced Thursday to condemn the 1994 attackon the Mutual Israelite Association of Argentina, or AMIA, community center in Buenos Aires 25 years ago, in addition to calling...