Being Jewish And Being Israeli: Argentina’s Experience

The memorial to the victims of the 1992 Buenos Aires Israeli embassy bombing. Photograph Source: Carlos Zito – CC BY-SA 3.0

During my appointment to Buenos Aires in the worst years of the dictatorship and repression (1976-1980), I learned of this ambiguous distinction embodied by the Israeli Ambassador, Ron Nergard, in the capital of Argentina. When Jewish Argentine citizens were victims of repression (kidnapping, torture, disappearance, murder, fraud, dispossession)[1], many of them for the simple reason of being Jewish...