The Minister of Interior, Arturo Mor Roig, promised Jewish leaders today that he would open an investigation into a wide-spread anti-Semitic campaign being conducted by Walter Beveraggi Allende, a right-wing politician. Dr. Mor Roig met Dr. Sion Cohen Imach and Dr. Nehemias Resnitsky, president and secretary respectively of the DAIA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry. They expressed deep concern over Allende’s charges against Jews and Zionists which have already been published in many provincial newspapers.
The DAIA representatives submitted documents to the Interior Minister refuting the charges which, they pointed out, were almost identical to accusations made against Argentine Jews in 1964 by Hussein Triki, an Arab League propagandist who was later expelled from the country. Allende claims to be exposing a “Zionist plot” engineered by a certain “Grand Rabbi Gordon of New York” to dismember Argentina and establish a Jewish state to be called “Andinia” in the country’s Andean provinces.
The DAIA leaders pointed out that according to Allende, virtually everyone in Argentina except himself is controlled by “Zionists.” As absurd as the charges are, they have already been published in newspapers in Tucuman and in Comodoro Rivadavia in the south, the Jewish leaders pointed out. Allende has also spread them in leaflets aimed at members of the powerful Peronista trade union movement.
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