ei: Argentina case threatens to criminalize criticism of Israel

When I read reports like the one from Argentina below, I look for the background involvement of the American Jewish Committee (AJCom), which in many ways serves as the foreign office for the organized Jewish community or the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland (ZVCM). Names that provide a tip-off are Amanda Farfel, Stephanie Guiloff, Dina Siegel Vann, and a few others.

The US State Department should be jealous of the ability of the AJCom

• to get the laws legislated in foreign countries,
• to manipulate national or international legal systems, and
• to put its own operatives like US Treasury Department official Stuart Levey into governments of states that the ZVCM wants to dominate.

The AJCom succees where the US State Department fails because the AJCom engages in transnational politics whereas foreign service officials practice international politics. The AJCom uses local Jewish communities and social networks to influence the media, to control education at every level, and to manipulate the local economy in ways that the US State Department would not dare. No grammar school textbook is to insignificant No interfaith meeting is too unimportant.

Throughout N.A. and Europe Jewish Zionist interpretations of laws against hate speech rule, which almost invariably includes frank discussions of Zionism or of the context of the mass murders of Jews during WW2.

Argentina has long been a focus of Jewish transnational politics (and crime -- Sholem Aleichem wrote about Jewish white slaver organizations in that country), and the transnational organized Jewish community seems to be succeeding in making anti-Zionist expression illegal.

Argentina case threatens to criminalize criticism of Israel
Hugh Harkin, The Electronic Intifada, 24 June 2009

The detention of pro-Palestinian activists is protested in Buenos Aires, 26 May 2009. (Convergencia de Izquierda/argentina.indymedia.org)

In what Nobel Peace laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel has termed "a witch hunt and an attack on democratic freedoms," nine pro-Palestinian protesters in Argentina have been detained following a demonstration at an event celebrating Israel's 61st anniversary. The activists have been vilified as violent anti-Semites by politicians and the television and print media, and now face up to 12 years in prison for "ideological arrogance," under revived Juan Peron-era anti-terrorism legislation of dubious constitutionality.

The furor erupted on 17 May 2009 when violence broke out between protesters and supporters of Israel at a city center event organized by the City of Buenos Aires to mark Israel's 61st anniversary, resulting in the arrest and detention of the protesters. The Israeli ambassador and the country's major Jewish organizations immediately denounced the incident as an "anti-Semitic attack," an interpretation repeated with little reflection, amid much sensationalism, by almost all of the media in Argentina.

At least four ministers, and politicians of all stripes, rushed out to condemn the protesters. The lower house of parliament unanimously passed a resolution expressing their worry at these "serious attacks against the Argentinean Jewish community." With strong condemnations from the US ambassador and much talk of a "new outbreak of anti-Semitism," the five protesters originally arrested were refused bail. Four days later authorities raided the headquarters of the Teresa Rodriguez Movement (MTR), one of the groups involved in the protests, and seven others were taken into custody (three of these have since been released).

What actually happened at the 17 May event, however, remains unclear. According to the witnesses who say they were attacked, the protesters arrived to the scene wielding sticks and chains, striking out indiscriminately at women, children and old people. According to their lawyer, the defendants claim that the violence broke out as soon as they arrived, but say that they only carried flyers, placards and a banner, and that it was in fact they who were set upon by a group of men who broke from the crowd.

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