(Jewish Group) Argentina's Jewish community is still searching for justice, 25 years after a bomb

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Argentina's Jewish community is still searching for justice, 25 years after a devastating bomb attack

On the morning of July 18, 1994, Daniel Pomerantz had arrived early to begin the day’s administrative duties at the Jewish centre in the Calle Pasteur in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires.

When an elderly colleague called him to the back of the building belonging to the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Amia), Mr Pomerantz reluctantly abandoned his steaming cup of coffee.

At 9.53am, a massive car bomb exploded, destroying the office where he had been sitting just moments earlier, along with most of the building.

The blast killed 85 people and wounded another 300.

It was the worst atrocity committed against Jews anywhere in the world since the Holocaust.

Exactly a quarter of a century later, Mr Pomerantz, now Amia’s executive director, remains appalled that nobody has been brought to justice for the attack: “In one way or another, every Argentinian government over the past 25 years bears responsibility.”

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[MosheFeingold]

1. South America

Ended up home to more Nazis that we imagine. The elites there were very close to the Europeans, who, across national lines, share a common thread of antisemitic beliefs.

Venezuela is particularly bad.