Wiesenthal Center Expresses Solidarity in the Face of Threats Against the President of DAIA, the Umbrella Leadership of Argentine Jewry

Buenos Aires and Paris – Dr. Jorge Knoblovits (pictured far left withAriel Gelblung and Shimon Samuels), President of the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), has often received antisemitic threats.

The latest hate letter summons him to a boxing location, announcing that there was a bullet waiting there for him.

The Directors for International Relations and for Latin America of the Wiesenthal Center, Drs. Shimon Samuels and Ariel Gelblungrespectively, expressed “total solidarity with the President of DAIA, urging the authorities to identify and condemn thosebehind the threats, as also to guarantee the personal safety of Knoblovits and those around him."

"The institutions of the Argentine Jewish community have been gravely targetted by bombing attacks in 1992 against the IsraeliEmbassy killing 29 and the 1994 AMIA Jewish Centre,leaving 85 dead and over 300 wounded.. This was followed by the murder of the AMIA Prosecutor who was investigating the case.All these eventsare still unresolved...No threat can be taken lightly."

For further information, please contact Dr. Shimon Samuels at +336 09770158 or Dr.Ariel Gelblung at +54 9 11 49695365

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