Argentina Sees Dramatic Increase in Anti-Semitism

A report issued on Monday by the Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Argentina, showing that there has been a 44% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country in 2023, with most of this increase coming after the Hamas massacre on October 7th. The report echoes similar reports about anti-Semitic attitudes and activity in a number of other Western countries.

“The attack did not generate empathy towards the victims, "Marisa Braylan, the report’s author and the director of DAIA’s Center for Social Studies, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "There was silence, there were justifications and in the worst cases, there was admiration,” she said. “On October 7, a latent antisemitism was dusted off.”

Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and diplomatic relations between the governments of the two countries are very friendly.