B'nai B'rith Says Increase in Anti-Semitic Incidents in Argentina is "Deeply Troubling"

The recent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina is "deeply troubling," B'nai B'rith International said.

This week swastikas were painted on some 30 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the province of San Luis. "Death to Jews" was also scrawled on the cemetery walls, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports today.

In addition, Jewish graves at a cemetery in Buenos Aires were desecrated earlier this month.

A B'nai B'rith statement called these and other incidents "a most worrisome pattern. We hope these abhorrent hateful acts in a democratic nation with the largest Jewish population in Latin America are not an omen of more intolerance to come," said the B'nai B'rith statement.