Seven Peronist organizations, most of them youth groups, have published an advertisement in the Peronist daily Mayoria, praising the United Nations General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism and blaming Jews for Argentina’s current problem.
The advertisement published several days ago, declared that the UN resolution was not needed “since if is a well-known truth that Zionism is racist….Notwithstanding all this, we still have in our capital a main street called State of Israel.
“We Argentinians are suffering in our fatherland for a very long time the terrible consequences of this racial (Zionist) fanaticism,” the advertisement said. It stated that the Zionists are “incrustrated in our land like a cancer destroying everything beautiful, just and good in the excessively tolerant soul of our people, Due to this exacerbated Zionist fanaticism our people suffer an anguishing institutional, political, social, cultural and economic crisis which worries us….”
The seven Peronist groups declared that they welcomed the UN resolution because it will “facilitate a fair and permanent solution to the serious problems anguishing the world….”
Earlier this month, Mayoria published a statement by a national Eva Peron group, a youth organization, denouncing Zionism and charging that Israel was “founded after a genocidal and usurpating process against the Palestinian people.” The statement also condemned several agreements signed by Argentina with Israel during the Presidency of Arturo Frondizi.
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