Tuesday, July 30, 2019
SWASTIKA FOUND PAINTED ON JEWISH LEADERSHIP BUILDING IN ARGENTINA
A Swastika was found painted on a Jewish building in Santa Fe, Argentina earlier this week.
According to the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism,the vandals spray-painted the swastika at the front of the Jewish Cultural Association building in the city just days after antisemitic graffiti appeared in the same place. The graffiti that appeared days before had been painted over with white paint.
The antisemitism watchdog said that Jewish leaders had already filed a report with the police following the incident.
There has been a spate of antisemitic incidents reported across Argentina recently, ranging from antisemitic graffiti, physical attacks and social media posts spawning from the country.
Last week, four people were convicted for spray painting antisemitic graffiti in 2016 at a school park, as well as for threatning a leader from the Argentine Jewish community.
Also last week, a study done by Web Observatory, an Internet watchdog that works towards creating a discriminatory-free web, found that the Spanish words for "Jew" and "Zionist" were used the most on social media and online in Argentina in antisemitic context between 2015 and 2018, the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism reported.
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