Argentine Jews baffled by anti-Semitic attacks

[oberliner]

BUENOS AIRES (AFP)---A leader of Argentina's Jewish community on Tuesday said he was baffled by a recent anti-Semitic attack from what appears to be a extreme-left militant group.

Police arrested five people after some 20 hooded thugs armed with clubs and knives attacked a crowd of members of the Jewish community marking the 61st anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel on Sunday.

Around 300,000 Jews live in Argentina, the largest Jewish community in Latin America.

"We are still baffled," said Aldo Donzis, president of organization representing several Jewish community groups.

"We live in a democratic and pluralistic society, in co-existence," he said.

Police were still interrogating those arrested, who said they belonged to a previously unknown group called the Revolutionary Action Front (FAR).

http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/36638

[cali]

1. ugh. and let me pre-emptively say

that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is no excuse for this kind of shit.

[oberliner]

2. Much more about this in Spanish language sources

The government has condemned these incidents and it appears to be the act of a very aberrant group as opposed to a sign of a larger problem.

Some Spanish language links:

http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/449261-101275-0-El-Gobierno-condena-al-grupo-antisemita-y-niega-que-tenga-un-v%C3%ADnculo-el-Estado

http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/449294-101275-0-Activistas-izquierda-vuelven-generar-temor-los-Tribunales-y-piden-liberar-los-antisemitas

[able1]

3. Based on whatg Donzis said, maybe it was an "inside" job.

It's a good way to gin up sympathy for Israel and maybe cause people to blame Iran? Who knows? Hard to believe what
the media says.

[cali]

5. go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.

that's a fucked up and stupid comment. go away.

[LeftinOH]

4. Anti-semitism in the "New World" is especially baffling -

considering that (with the exception of indigenous peoples) *everyone* is an immigrant or descended from immigrants.

[rockymountaindem]

6. Why? Hating Jews these days has little to do with immigration

In the old days it was possible to base one's hatred of Jews on the notion that we are "outsiders" who don't belong wherever it is we might be found, but in the globalized world that really isn't an issue.

[RandomThoughts]

7. Misguided thugs, doing mean stupid things.

Very Sad, but glad that they were arrested.

Many Jewish people have led the fights for civil rights, unions, and many other causes on the left, along with many people of other faiths, and secular people.

I have never done any family tree research, and I do not put much importance in genealogies, but I believe I am part Jewish by heritage, but am Christian by faith. Either way, some of my favorite people, people I respect the most, are Jewish, some by faith, some by heritage.

Respect for a person should be based on their thoughts and actions, Some Jewish people just like secular people, Christian people, Muslim people, and every other group, I respect alot, and some I respect less.

But people that do violence like those people in the article, I do not respect at all.

Violence is pathetic.