Wiesenthal Center Denounces Brazil University Cancellation of Speaker on Middle East Peace Due to Pro-Palestinian Threats
Buenos Aires and Paris
Buenos Aires and Paris – In the Argentine city of Neuquén, Patagonia, posters are appearing that call for thenation to arise against sanitary measures ordered by the federal authorities to control the pandemic.
The message is a conspiracy theory claiming that COVID-19 does not exist, and that all precautions are generated by theJews, to install a world Jewish dictatorship, freedom of expression and to sell a vaccine against a non-existent disease.
Above all the posters call for the murder of the President of the Republic to "normalize tyrannicide."
"Blaming the Jews for epidemics from which they are accused to profit' is known throughout history as 'bloodlibel'... Since the outset of the virus, it flourishes on social media... However, to claimthat the pandemic does not exist and the call to end precautions is an act of 'terrorism' against Argentina, compounded by the murder threat against the President... Patagonia recalls the Nazihaven of Bariloche and the 1970's leaflet, The 'Andian Plan,' a forgery presented as an Israeli/Jewish takeover of Patagonia as a second Zionist State, noted the Director for International Relations of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Dr. Shimon Samuels.
Dr. Ariel Gelblung, the Center`s Latin American Director concluded: “Whoever made, distributed and published these posters violatedthe law. It is not about freedom of expression but criminals who are proposing 'tyrannicide'–a euphemism for the execution of the President...They are spreading a message of hate clearlypunishable by law. It is not surprising that it happens in the same location where the extreme right obtained 30,000 votes in the preliminary elections of 2019. We urge both provincial andfederal authorities not to minimize this action, investigate and act with the full force of the law."
For further information, please contact Dr. Shimon Samuels at +336 09770158 or Dr. Ariel Gelblungat +54 9 1149695365.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization numbering over400.000 members. It holds consultative status at the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the OAS and the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO)
For further information, please contact Dr. Shimon Samuels at +336 09770158 or Dr. Ariel Gelblung at +54 9 11 49695365.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization numbering over 400.000members. It holds consultative status at the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the OAS and the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO)