Six out of 10 recently married Jewish couples in Buenos Aires consider anti-Jewish bias a serious problem, which threatens the security of Argentine Jews, according to results of a study made by the Latin American office of the American Jewish Committee.
However, 87 per cent of the couples expressed optimism about the possibilities of neutralizing such dangers, Abraham Monk, director of the office, said. One-third of the respondents said they had personally experienced anti-Semitism during childhood, and 15 per cent said they had been injured personally in anti-Semitic attacks in recent years. Forty per cent said they thought anti-Semitism had increased in recent years, while 10 per cent felt that such prejudice had diminished. The sample of 200 couples was selected from 3,000 such couples in Buenos Aires.
In a related development here, two Argentine officials agreed at a roundtable discussion that “the seeds of neo-Nazism are still latent” in Argentina.
The officials were Silvano Santander, former member of Parliament and leader of the People’s Radical party, and Eugenio Hendler, of the Argentine Institute for Culture and Information. Speakers at the roundtable, sponsored by the Argentine-Israeli Institute, stressed that a program of information was needed among labor unions and public officials to halt the spread of anti-Semitism.
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