Signature in solidarity. Before the trial against Alejandro Bodart for defending the Palestinian people.

He 12 The trial against Alejandro Bodart is scheduled to begin in August, left-wing political leader, Buenos Aires deputy (mc) and director of the magazine Revolución Permanente, of the International Socialist League, for the criminal case initiated by the DAIA (Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations). The only objective is to silence anyone who supports or defends the cause of the Palestinian people and wants to impose strict political censorship on all criticism of the genocidal and racist State of Israel..

That is why asolidarity petition to demand his acquittal from justice and the cessation of all slanderous attacks by those who equate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism to silence questions about apartheid in Israel. and express at the same time, the firm rejection of this and all attempts at political censorship, in defense of the elementary democratic right to freedom of expression.

The DAIA authorities develop a persecutory and antidemocratic campaign against them. Proof of this is that the trial is based on two tweets published by Bodart, one the 11 May 2022 when he showed a photo of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, denouncing his murder with the legend “Zionists = Nazis”.

The other was days later, he 15 May of that year, upon completion of the 74 Nakba years, the bloody invasion of Palestine to create the State of Israel, which involved thousands of deaths and the forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, when Bodart tweeted against the “Zionist and genocidal State of Israel”, and in defense of the just Palestinian cause.

Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with anti-Semitism

That criticism of the crimes and atrocities of Zionism and in support of the Palestinian people, It meant that Bodart suffered the criminal complaint from the DAIA, accusing him of alleged “discrimination”. To do this, they appealed to the well-known fallacy that anti-Zionism would be the same as or synonymous with anti-Semitism.. With the fallacious argument that raising any political or humanitarian complaint before the State of Israel and its reprehensible actions, amounted to discrimination of a religious or ethnic nature.

From the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA, by its acronym in English), Zionism promotes a misleading and false definition of anti-Semitism in order to persecute anyone who criticizes Israel, its institutions, provocations and actions, as well as any other Zionist organization. They appeal to the legitimate feeling of repudiating the Nazi genocide and use the Jewish condition of yesterday's victims to justify today's genocide against the Palestinian people..

That is why we invite all organizations, personalities and social references, politicians, union, journalists, intellectuals, from the field of culture, territorial, of the socio-environmental or student movement, to express your solidarity by signing this petition and sending any sign of support you deem appropriate. (sign here).

To be part of this international campaign and be able to provide that support for justice, as part of our defense in the case, whose legal sponsorship has been assumed by fellow lawyers Carmen Verdú and Ismael Jalil, de la Correpi.

Sign the petition in solidarity with Alejandro Bodart here

To the Sra. Judge Natalia Molina

Criminal Court of First Instance, Contravention and Fouls No. 8

Before the start, on Monday 12 of August, of the oral trial of Alejandro Bodart, left-wing political leader, Buenos Aires deputy (mc) and director of the magazine of the International Socialist League, The undersigned express our rejection of the false accusation of “anti-Semitism” by the DAIA. (Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations), in order to silence those who defend the Palestinian cause and silence all criticism of the State of Israel and its policies of terrorism and genocide of the Palestinian people that, To date it has been mowed for more than 35.000 lives.

Likewise, in defense of the democratic right to freedom of expression, as a basic human right recognized by the national Constitution and the international treaties signed by the Argentine State, We ask justice for his acquittal.

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Important displays of solidarity

Numerous personalities have already spoken, MPs, union leaders, student, and there will be important witnesses in support of Bodart, among whom we can highlight Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Nobel Peace Prize, SERPAJ), The endearing Norita de Cortiñas was also going to be (Mother of Plaza de Mayo – Founding Line) recently deceased; Laura Alche (APEMIA); Norman Briski (actor); Herman Schiller (journalist); Myriam Bregman (national representative, mc); Maria Rachid (Anti-Discrimination Institute, ICDCABA); Cele Fierro (Buenos Aires deputy); Luis Zamora (national deputy, mc); Claudio Katz (Economist, EDI); Vilma Ripoll (deputy, mc of CABA); Romina del Pla (national representative, mc); José Saúl Wermus (Jorge Altamira, deputy mc of the CABA); Juan Carlos Giordano (national deputy, mc); Carlos “Swede” Lordkipanidse (Militant Encounter Cachito Fukman); Carlos Aznarez (journalist); Eduardo “Negro” Soares (attorney); Gabriel Solano (Buenos Aires deputy); Julio César Gambina (economist, FISYP); Hernán Camarero (historian, CEHTI); Juan Carlos Capurro (attorney, CAJ); Guillermo Pacagnini (elected Buenos Aires deputy); Gabriel “Mohsen” Ali (sheikh, cleric); Clarisa Albertstein (national leader of the MST); Tamara Miguelson (Red Ecosocialista-MST).

The French Jewish Union for Peace has also spoken out. (UFJP), member of the International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine; the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (URGENT, by its acronym in English); the Socialist Left Movement (MY), member of the Socialism and Liberdade Party (PSOL) from Brazil; Tilda Rabi, president of the Federation of Argentine-Palestinian entities; also by the Unity Left Front, firman el MST, Workers' Socialist Movement, PTS, Socialist Workers Party, PO, Workers Party and IS, Socialist left.

further, the human rights organizations of the Memory Meeting, Truth and Justice as AEDD (Association of Former Detainees-Disappeared); CADEP (Antirepressive Coordinator for the Rights of the People); CADHU (Center of Lawyers for Human Rights); CeProDH (Center of Professionals for Human Rights); CMM (Militant Memory Collective); I rushed (Coordinator against Police and Institutional Repression); EMCF (Militant Encounter Cachito Fukman); EPCT (Meeting of Professionals Against Torture); Brothers of the Disappeared for Truth and Justice; H.I.J.O.S. West Zone (Children for Identity and Justice against Forgetfulness and Silence); SERPAJ (Peace and Justice Service); CAJ (Legal Action Committee); CALL (Association of Fighting Professionals).

In turn, the members of the Self-Convocation have spoken out against the suspension of payment and investigation of the debt as Dialogue 2000-Jubilee South Argentina, Beatriz Rajland, Hugo Blasco and Daniel Campione for the Left Political Current (CPI); Socialist democracy; Southern Emancipation; Emancipatory Political Project; National Coordinating Table of Retiree and Pensioner Organizations; Julio Acosta (FEDERAL); MULCS, Latin American Unity Movement and Social Change; Marabunta, Social and Political Current; PRML, Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party; Eduardo Lucita, Leftist Economists; Pablo Bergel, Sociologist, former CABA legislator. Join in too.