0;blow up the cursed Jews” resulted in the cancellation of the premiere of Fiddler on the Roof in October in the city of Tucumn. viLegal ActivityIn June 1999 the judicial authorities, acting on information they had received from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, began investigating the activities of Walhalla SRL, a publishing house in San Luis province, which is accused of selling and distributing videos and books containing Nazi ideology. Much of the material in question, such as the Nazi movie The Eternal Jew, is prohibited under the anti-discrimination law. In another case involving the Verdad y Justicia (Truth and Justice) movement, which was allegedly linked to previous desecrations of the La Tablada cemetery, Miguel Angel Russo was given a jail term in October under the anti-discrimination law, for publishing and disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda. Russo is the only Argentinean citizen currently in prison for anti-Semitic activities.In May 1999 the DAIA demanded the dismissal of the three judges who nullified the verdict of a lower court judge in the 1995 case of a skinhead attack, accompanied by anti-Semitic insults, against a non-Jewish youth. The judge had sentenced the three skinheads to prison terms. Judges Bisordi, Basavilbaso and Catuchi, who overturned the sentence argued that the term “dirty Jews” was a general war cry used by such youths, with no anti-Semitic intention. The DAIA’s call was supported by the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights.viOverly anti-Semitic attacks are only one type of problem currently facing South America’s largest Jewish community. A more existential crisis has been the recent financial troubles facing the community’s institutions. During the 1990s the government’s privatization reforms had a sharply negative impact on the economic status of the urban middle class. Many Jewish business owners have lost their shops and are unable to pay membership o...
