Posted on YouTube: November 3, 2023
This is sad, but the recent war in Gaza has fueled antisemitism in Latin America.
Gaza War Fuels Antisemitism in Latin America
Argentina
Argentina is a very large country on the southeast of South America, running from the polar south to the tropical north. The population is very European in ancestry, with roughly half being pure-European in background, and another large section being mostly European in background.
It has a large Arab population (9±%), but which is intermarried and assimilated into the country’s larger demographic This is because it is heavily Maronite (Catholic) Lebanese who assimilate well.
Interestingly, Argentina has around 180,000 Jews – the seventh largest Jewish population in the world – and they can be politically active.
Argentina, Chile, and Columbia Condemn Hospital Attack
Tranlated by Google App.
Source: (CNN Spanish) — Through their accounts on X, formerly Twitter, the foreign ministries of Colombia, Argentina and Chile condemned the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in northern Gaza.
The Argentine Foreign Ministry offered humanitarian aid to the population affected by the conflict through the Argentine Agency for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance, the White Helmets.
“Colombia joins the urgent call of the different United Nations Organizations (WHO, Unicef), since it considers necessary the protection of civilians in the midst of the conflict, as well as respect for international humanitarian law, which establishes that the attention of health must be actively protected and never be an objective,” the Colombian Foreign Ministry detailed in a statement.
A rocket has landed on Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Both sides are blaming the other.
What is clear is that, at the time of this story, the culprit for the attack has not been 100% verified yet.
October 23, 2023 — Edited. Updates seem to show that Israel was not guilty, but that the rocket was from Gaza, and disintegrated over the hospital.
Posted on YouTube: October 22, 2023
Israel seems to be innocent on this one.
Brazilian Evangelical Support Israel During Crisis
Source: Fohla de S.Paulo – English Edition – October 9, 2023
Why Do So Many Evangelicals in Brazil Support Israel in the New Conflict?
This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment
The eruption of a new conflict in Israel has flooded evangelical social media with the white and blue flag bearing the Star of David in its center. This new stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revived the popularity of Zionism within this religious segment, even prompting expressions of support from this religious bloc in Congress.
Brazil is one of those countries where a very large Evangelical constituency can override Arab sympathies in the political realm. The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was very pro-Israel. The current president is not so.
Rio De Janiero protest in support of Israel
Posted on YouTube: October 15, 2023
Pro-Israel supporters from another view.
Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023
Almost one-third of Brazil is now Evangelical Christian (31%) – who tend to support Zionism – and the government, even though it is leftist, has to respect their political power.
Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2023
One can see the enormous numbers of people who support Israel. Yet, there are not a lot of Jews in Brazil, relatively speaking. Roughly 110,000 which is one-twentieth of one percent (0.05%) of the population.
So where is this support coming from: The Evangelicals.
Yes, there is pro-Palestinian support (see video below) but it will be drowned out.
Remember that the Arabs in Brazil are, in the vast majority, Christian, and some of those would be Evangelical or, at the least, moderate Maronites. So even though Brazil has roughly 15 million Arabs, the Evangelicals will win.
News report on pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters.
Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2023
The Evangelical Christians are making demographic gains daily. While there will be pro-Palestinian support in Brazil, in the end, the politics will sway to Israel. The Evangelicals are powerful — powerful enough that the leftist president Lula da Silva has had to moderate his position.
Added October 24 (below):
Not just the Evangelicals in Brazil. Apparently, there was a massive street protest in favor of Israel in Buenos Aires. Argentina has a massive amount of influential Jews — circa 180,000.
Expect Brazil, with its large Evangelical base, and Argentina – with a large Jewish community – to be more muted or balanced in taking sides in this war, unlike Chile or Honduras where Palestinians are large, elite, and powerful.
The video below was posted on October 16 which leads me to believe that this protest and the Brazilian demonstrations were coordinated to occur around the same time, across Brazil and Argentina, as a large scale show of political power.
Massive march in support of Israel in Buenos Aires, Argentina@InfoAMIA @DAIAArgentina @OSArgentina @JKnoblovits @Israel @IsraelArgentina @AmbEyalSela @PatoBullrich @IsraelMFA #Israel @netanyahu @Isaac_Herzog @EmbajadaEEUUarg @horaciorlarreta @USAmbassadorARG @israelenmiami… pic.twitter.com/BFpVPmfiFa
— Agencia AJN (@AgenciaAJN) October 10, 2023
Argentina, the Other Outlier with Lots of Jews
Note: image was ai-generated.
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.
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.
For them, it was the Holy Land or Nothing.