BUENOS AIRES & PARIS: On June 4, 2020, Argentina adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Anti-Semitism.
The resolution resulted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invitation topublic and private organizations to join, thus making a clear commitment to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and to combat anti-Semitism in a clear and concrete waytoday.
Since then, the different provinces and cities throughout Argentina havefollowed in adopting the Definition.
The National University of Cuyo, which the Wiesenthal Center slammed forvarious acts of anti-Semitism in May 2019, has become the first in Latin America, to use the definition to now condemn those acts publicly inNovember. (http://www.wiesenthal.com/swc-commends-argentinas-cuyo3.html)
"The National University of Cuyo has proven itself to be at theforefront of the fight against anti-Semitism on the continent, today adopting the IHRA working definition...We applaud this reversal,"stated Dr. Ariel Gelblung, Wiesenthal Center`s Director of the Wiesenthal Center for America Latin.
Dr. Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations addedthat “we hope that universities throughout the region will emulate the National University of Cuyo to curb the spread of anti-Semitic activities on campus...Hatemongering in academiahas spread exponentially from threat to violence...Hate is not freedom of expression...Hate is not a human right”. "
For further information, please contact Dr. Shimon Samuelsat +33609770158 or Dr. Ariel Gelblung at +54 9 11 49695365.
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