A Peronist member of the Argentine Parliament demanded today the creation of a “Bicameral Committee on anti-Argentine Activities” to investigate “Zionist infiltration in Argentina.”
The demand was one element of a broadside of anti-Zionist slurs which received widespread attention in the sensationalist press. The charges by Juan Carlos Cornejo Limares were the latest in a series of anti-Zionist propaganda charges made in Argentina.
The deputy asserted that there was a “Zionist plot against the structure and spiritual values of our nation” and that Zionism was “using all media at its disposal in an attempt to annul” his anti-Zionist efforts and to “injure with defamation those who try to discover the truth.”
He asserted that there was in Argentine a “Zionist guerilla command,” that “Zionist pressure” had forced the resignations of several police officers, and that the “illegal abduction” of Adolt Eichmann was “proof” of “Haganah infiltration.” (The Haganah was the underground Jewish defense organization in Palestine in the pre-state-hood period.)
He assailed the founding of Jewish and Zionist Children’s camps and listed six in the Buenos Aires area. He asserted that, in the camps, children were being indoctrinated “according to Israeli party politics.” Jewish leaders said that the camps were entirely recreational.
Another charge was that Zionist activities in Argentina included training “in Communist practice and customs which are used in agricultural military formations in Israel called “Kibbutzim” and submission in the children’s camps “to the ideals of Israel and loyalty to its flag which is hoisted all over these camps.”
Concern was expressed in Jewish circles here over the fact that this latest anti-Zionist agitation was having a considerable impact on Argentina’s jobless masses.
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