Argentina still has a lot of Jews; the sixth largest community of Jews outside of Israel. Unlike Chile, where Palestinians are influential, the Jews of Argentina still pack a wallop.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald – October 9, 2023 Hundreds of people took part in a march in Buenos Aires on Monday in support of Israel following the deadly terror attacks carried out by the Islamist group Hamas in the Middle East.
Headed by the country’s leading Jewish organisations, the march in Almagro was a chance for porteños to show solidarity with Israel.
The vast majority of them live in Buenos Aires, and four days ago they had a massive protest in support of Israel.
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“The only solution is for the Gaza Strip, which originally belonged to the Jewish people, to be vacated,” Rafael Yablonosky, a 60-year-old doctor, said as he rallied.
The last comment is interesting, as Mr. Yablonsky does not say where the Gazans should go.
But, technically, Argentina has not been so hostile to Jews.
What about Juan Peron and the Nazis?
Juan Peron was NOT a Nazi. He considered Italian Fascist economics as interesting, but that was economics. He did not purchase into Germany’s racial theories. One of Peron’s advisors was Jewish.
Argentina had a problem with leftists, and at that time in history, many Jews were leftist. Conservative Jews were usually left alone. There were issues during the period of the junta (1976-83), but the junta went after every suspected leftist, Jew or Gentile.
Jews have had a major role in Argetina’s history. The contributed a lot to the evolution of tango music.
The Jewish population in Argentina is large, because, for the most part, Argentina was friendly to Jews.
Posted on YouTube: October 10, 2023
Argemtoma Has the First Jewish City in the World
Posted on YouTube: 2022
True! Check out Moisés Ville above.
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In fact, Theodore Herzl and Baron Maurice de Hirsch even considered purchasing a province in Argentina to create the Jewish state. The rabbis shot that idea down.
Islam Channel fined £40,000 over ‘antisemitic’ conspiracy theory documentary
A UK-based TV channel for British muslims has been fined £40,000 after airing an “antisemitic” documentary that claimed Israel was trying to take over part of Argentina and Chile.
In February 2021, the Islam Channel broadcast an hour-long film titled The Andinia Plan, which alleged there are plans to create a new Jewish state in Patagonia – a sparsely populated region at the bottom of South America.
The conspiracy theory first appeared in a magazine published by a group of Argentinian neo-Nazis led by the sons of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichman.
Big deal. We had a post about this documentary (Click Here) over a year ago.
The whole claim is preposterous, but it is believed by some in South America.
(Click Here) to see the backgrounder on this documentary.
In the original The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl, the Patagonian area of Argentina was considered as a possible area for Jewish settlement. However, the Zionist Congress shot down that idea immediately.
Sometimes you have to wonder if the safe assumption is that people are generally idiots, because this next story is proof that people will believe the most ridiculous things.
Worse yet, this idiocy is being pushed by Iran’s HispanTV. HispanTV is a propaganda outlet which, sadly, has influence in South America.
Patagonia is the southern most region of South America, split between both Argentina and Chile. It was settled – by white governments – very late in history, only by the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Until then, it was very sparsely populated – chiefly by native Mapuche and Tehuelche people – and up for grabs. Indeed Chile and Argentina vied for the area. They only agreed to split it around 1879, when Chile was at war with Peru and Bolivia.
So to Europeans, it was considered available for the taking, not really settled by anyone.
THE ORIGINAL ZIONISTS CONSIDERED ARGENTINA?
When Herzl published THE JEWISH STATE in 1896, his goal was to set up a state for the Jewish people, as an ethnic group … an ethnostate, where Jews would be safe. The security of the Jewish people was the primary issue. The location of this Jewish State was of secondary concern. Since the Holy Land was then controlled by Ottoman Turkey, Herzl pondered if areas of Argentina (which was then sparsely populated, even by whites) would make an agreeable area for a Jewish state.
Shall we choose Palestine or Argentine? We shall take what is given us, and what is selected by Jewish public opinion. The Society will determine both these points.
Argentine is one of the most fertile countries in the world, extends over a vast area, has a sparse population and a mild climate. The Argentine Republic would derive considerable profit from the cession of a portion of its territory to us. The present infiltration of Jews has certainly produced some discontent, and it would be necessary to enlighten the Republic on the intrinsic difference of our new movement.
However, even though Patagonia was not spelled out as the specific area in mind, it surely was considered.
It was true that Argentina was in debt and could use the money. It was true that Argentina was sparsely populated and could have spared a province or two.
Indeed, a Jewish philanthropist, Baron Maurice de Hirsch, had already set up a Jewish community [old video from 2011] in the Sante Fe Province of Argentina, in the subtropical pampas, northwest of Buenos Aires. He claimed to have secured promises from Argentine authorities to set up an autonomous province.
On 14 August 1889, 130 Jewish families fleeing antisemitism and persecution in the Russian Empire arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to restart their lives and begin a Jewish community. While the 824 Russian Jews were not the first Jews to arrive in Argentina, they were the first to establish a Jewish agricultural settlement in South America.
ARGENTINA WAS DISCUSSED AT THE FIRST ZIONIST CONGRESS
At the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, the idea was brought up.
[Baron Hirsch] claimed that the Argentinean government acquiesced in this project and would cooperate fully in creating a Jewish autonomous state in Argentina. The representative of Baron Hirsch spoke for three and a half hours explaining the plan and pledging the resources of Baron Hirsch to its fulfillment. At midnight, after Hirsch’s representative finally finished his presentation and sat down, an old, stooped figure arose. He was Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, the rabbi of Biyalistok and one of the founders of Chovevei Tziyon. He said: “May the Lord bless Baron Hirsch for his interest and endeavors and grant him long life and success. But we are going only to the Land of Israel.” And that statement ended the meeting.
However, the delegates at that Zionist Congress insisted on returning to the Holy Land. They would accept nothing less. The idea of a Patagonian Jewish state should have died then and there, but not among conspiracy theorists.
There is a belief among some anti-semitic South Americans, as well as among some Palestinian-Chileans, that Israel still wants to set up a Jewish state in Patagonia (both in Argentina and Chile), as a backup plan, should Israel ever fall.
In 2013, a Chilean senator, Eugenio Tuma, of Palestinian extraction, accused Israel of mapping out Southern Chile, with an eye to taking over Patagonia.
The irony is that it is NOT Jews, but rather Arabs, which have flooded into South America.
Yet, the Andinia Plan, which sounds like lunacy to American ears, can get real consideration in South American cicles. The idea may be preposterous, but people still believe it.
This has led to this:
Posted on YouTube: September 7, 2022
The documentary above is generally considered to be antisemitic in nature, yet there is a constituency in South America that still believes it.
This may be a sad commentary on human beings in general.
Even were someone antisemitic, reason alone should lead one to recognize Plan Andinia as preposterous.
November 16, 2023 – Edited: Had to get a new video for the Andinia documentary.
January 18, 2024 – Edited: Noted that this idiotic propaganda is being pushed by Iran.
