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‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffitied on prominent Buenos Aires monument

2024-10-11

[IsraelTimes] Antisemitic slogan, which has long history on Argentina’s far right, written on monument to independence hero Simon Bolivar days after Oct. 7 anniversary

An antisemitic slogan with a long history in Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
was discovered graffitied onto a monument in a Buenos Aires park on Wednesday, unnerving local Jews.

The graffiti, reading "Serve the nation, kill a Jew," was inked onto a column of a monument to Simon Bolivar, historically considered "the Liberator" of South America, in Parque Rivadavia in the Argentine capital. A Jewish star stood in for the final word of the slogan.

Argentina’s leading Jewish organization, known as DAIA, filed an official complaint, and the municipality swiftly cleaned up the graffiti in the afternoon, shortly after it was discovered.

DAIA condemned the "serious antisemitic graffiti" and said it was one of more than 500 antisemitic incidents the organization had recorded this year, amid a spike following Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Argentina has a Jewish population of nearly 200,000, the largest in Latin America. The vast majority live in the Buenos Aires area.

A close variant of the phrase has a long history on the country’s far right. The Nationalist Liberation Alliance, a World War II-era Argentine movement affiliated with the Nazis, used the phrase, and it was later employed by Tacura, a fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
movement that was active in Argentina in the decades following the war.

It has appeared more recently as well. A decade ago, residents in the town of General Paz received tax bills with the phrase written on them. The city official responsible for the printing was ultimately sentenced to a suspended jail term and was ordered to apologize and learn about the Holocaust.

The graffiti was discovered the same week that Jews in Buenos Aires marked the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel last year. An event organized by the country’s largest Jewish organizations drew 15,000 attendees, according to the country’s Israeli embassy.

There was a pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel demonstration in the city the same day.

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