Today we mark the 30th anniversary of the horrific suicide bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. #Amia30años 🕯️
Just two years after the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires was bombed killing 29 people, 85 people were murdered and hundreds more injured from the bombing at AMIA – a Jewish community centre. It remains the worst terrorist attack in the history of Argentina.
After years of corruption and scandal including the assassination of Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, this year Argentinian courts finally ruled that the Iranian regime was responsible for the attack, and declared it a “terrorist state”.
The court also noted the role of Iranian-regime proxy Hezbollah who have been bombarding civilians in Northern Israel with rockets and drones since the Oct 7 massacre. The terrorist flag of Hezbollah flies in some anti-Israel protests in the West.
The slogan of this year’s AMIA 30-year memorial is “el terrorismo sigue, la impunidad también” – terrorism continues, and impunity too. The families and survivors of the AMIA bombing still wait for justice. That is why we are calling on the UK Government to follow our Western allies in proscribing the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Senior Vice President Adrian Cohen and Chief Executive Michael Wegier attended the moving commemoration and memorial events in Buenos Aires, and met with Jewish communal leaders from Argentina and around the world to discuss the global fight against terrorism, extremism, and antisemitism.