The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has embarked on a-campaign to arouse world opinion to the lack of human rights? Argentina which increasingly affects the Jewish population of that country, an ADL official said here today. Abraham Foxman, associate national director of the ADL, who is attending the ADL’s National Commission meeting in Jerusalem, said at a press conference that he did not want to compare the situation in Argentina with that in the Soviet Union.
However, he said, experience has shown that “countries do care about their image.” He said that “close to 1000 of the large Jewish community in Argentina have either disappeared or we know that they are imprisoned.” Some Jews who were put on trial and found not guilty are still under house arrest, he said. Foxman said a world outcry might prompt Argentina to prove there is no anti-Semitism there.
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