While Argentina welcomes an Israeli soldier fleeing Brazil on charges of committing genocide in Gaza, Argentina has given Alejandro Bodart, leader of the Socialist Workers’ Movement (MST), a six-month suspended sentence for a post he made on the social media platform X in which he condemned what he described as the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians. The Criminal, Juvenile, Contravention, and Misdemeanor Chamber of Buenos Aires overturned the acquittal that Bodart had initially received in a case initiated by a complaint from the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA). The organisation denounced him for violating Anti-Discrimination Law 23,592 and the definition of anti-Semitism set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), as adopted by the National State. … Continue reading Argentine activist sentenced over ‘genocidal Israel’ tweet