A memorandum protesting recent anti-Semitic incidents has been filed with Gen. Filomeno Velazco, Busnos Aires police chief, by the DAIA, central Argentine Jewish representative body.
The memorandum reviews the damaging of the principal synagogue in the city, the defacement of Jewish buildings, the stoning of Jewish newspapers and the anti-Semitic slogans shouted by newsboys selling the organ of the Allianza Libertadora Nacionalista, extreme right-wing organization, which is behind most of the anti-Jewish incidents.
Not only have the police failed to prevent such incidents, but the per-petrators have never been punished, the memorandum points out, stating that it is “avident” that the occurrences constitute “a systematic campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community.”
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