Newsstands and bookstores in the central streets here continue to be replete with anti-Semitic literature — including Nazi publications, an internal report to the Executive of the World Jewish Congress states.
The report, prepared by the secretariat of the WJC Latin American branch, states that the government of President Raul Alfonsin “is categorical in denouncing these symptoms which it considers part of an effort toward the destabilization of the democratic regime. . . . Nevertheless, the publications continue. visible to all.”
The Jewish press and the news bulletins of the DAIA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry, have begun the task of cataloguing anti-Semitic and Nazi publications. The list is disturbing, the WJC report says. There are about 10 and they are very open about their anti-Semitic views.
As an example, the report notes that the latest issue of the magazine, “Information on Masonry,”states on its cover, “Zionism: Alfonsin its Servant,” and is subtitled “Hitler was Right.”
MAGAZINE DENOUNCES ZIONISM
One of the items in the magazine states “… and just as Zionism demanded ‘reparations’ from Germany amounting to thousands of millions during more than 30 years — a booty which was split, as good partners in plunder with (Winston) Churchill and the English homosexual oligarchy, as well as with Roosevelt and his gang of Yankee gangsters — now the Argentinian Zionists, in agreement with Israel and the American Zionists, are preparing the methodical looting of the Argentinian people, to get reparations for the 1,500 supposed Jews presumed disappeared.”
Another of the anti-Semitic publications, “Barbarie (Barbarism) Aluarte Nacional” (National Bulwark) which defines itself as Peronist, states that it expects “a true national revolution” and blames Jews for all evils.
But these are not the sole disturbing symptoms within the prevailing euphoric climate of the new democratic regime in Argentina. During a recent mass honoring the victims of the struggle against guerrilla warfare, a Catholic priest spoke against “pornographic democracy,” and young boys marched in black capes, and the participants — among them military cadets in uniform — sang refrains such as “It will finish, the ‘Radical’ synagogue will finish ?” (Alfonsin heads the Radical Party of Argentina).
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