Tag: Argentine Jewish community

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez under fire from Zion organization for comments on “oranges from Israel”

  

  Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has come under fire from Argentina’s Jewish community after referring to fruit imports from Israel.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 13:06 UTC

  Roger Waters accused of anti-Semite by Jewish institutions in Argentina

  

  Jewish institutions in Argentina have launched a campaign against British singer Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd front-man. Waters’ Us +Them tour has been travelling around Latin America for the last month.

• Sunday, March 15th 2015 - 01:02 UTC

  Argentina declassifies all files connected to the 1994 AMIA attack

  

  The administration of President Cristina Fernandez has ordered the declassification of all files connected with the attack against the AMIA Jewish community center that took place in 1994 in Buenos Aires City. Some of the documents were already in the hands of the special prosecutor in charge of investigating the bombing, now late Alberto Nisman.

• Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community wants a 'Day of national mourning', for the burial of Nisman

  

  The head of Argentina's DAIA Jewish community organization Julio Schlosser has urged for the day of Alberto Nisman's burial to be an official “day of national mourning”, in tribute to the late prosecutor who was found dead this week.

• Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 06:26 UTC

  US government and Congress call for a “complete and impartial” investigation into the death of Nisman

  

  The US government has called for a “complete and impartial” investigation on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of covering up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community centre.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:51 UTC

  Nisman's death not suicide but a plot against her government, alleges Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Thursday morning took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.”

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Suspicious death in Argentina by The New York Times editorial board

  

  The following editorial was published on Wednesday by The New York Times addressing recent events surrounding the mysterious death in Buenos Aires of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the still unsolved case of the July 1994 attack on the Argentine Jewish community center, AMIA. He had been involved in the case for ten years and investigating an alleged Iranian connection.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  Argentine Jewish community calls for a “truth and justice” rally at AMIA

  

  Argentina's Jewish communities still shocked after learning of the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s death, announced that a ceremony calling for 'truth and justice' has been scheduled for this Wednesday to demand for the “complete clarification of the circumstances” surrounding the prosecutor’s death.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:20 UTC

  Israel and Argentine Jewish organizations call for AMIA probe to continue

  

  Israel urged Argentine authorities on Monday to carry on with the work of a prosecutor who was found dead after having alleged a cover-up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre.

• Thursday, January 15th 2015 - 05:32 UTC

  Argentine president accused of 'covering up' Iran's role in Buenos Aires deadly attack

  

  An Argentine federal special prosecutor on Wednesday accused President Cristina Fernandez of seeking to cover up the involvement of Iran in a 1994 terrorist attack on a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that claimed 85 lives and 300 injured.