Back in April of this year, 2024, a court in Argentina handed down a ruling that was an official government acknowledgement of what was long thought to be true, that the 1994 bombing of the Amia, a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, was directed by Iran and carried out by Hezbollah. That was certainly the conclusion that the Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman had arrived at before being assassinated the day before he was due to testify. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver.

Today, July 18, 2024, on the 30th anniversary of the Amia bombing, Argentina's current

President Javier Milley announced his intention to prosecute Iranian leaders involved in the attack.

To commemorate this bombing and to cheer President Malay's announcement, we're rebroadcasting

this week, a conversation from 2019 that I conducted with Rabbi Avi Weiss.

Here's my previous introduction, explaining the context of this Iranian terrorism more fully,

followed by my 2019 conversation with Rabbi Avi Weiss.

On July 18, 1994, a car bomb struck the headquarters of Amia, the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association, the largest

Jewish Community Center and Social Service Agency in Buenos Aires. The bombing killed 85 people

and wounded hundreds more. It was the worst single attack on diaspora Jews since the Shoah.

A quarter century later, the perpetrators of this terror attack have still not been

brought to justice. And in this month's mosaic essay, Jewish activist Rabbi Avi Weiss tells the story

of the shameful cover-up of the Amia bombing. As soon as he heard about the attack, Rabbi Weiss

packed his bags and traveled to Argentina to be present with a suffering Jewish community there.

But he soon found himself confronting, president of Argentina Carlos Menom,

and attending a cabinet meeting where it became clear to Rabbi Wise that the Menom government

was not going to seriously pursue the perpetrators of this crime,

this crime against Jews who were singled out only for their being Jewish.

Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver. Rabbi Avi Weiss is my guest this

week, and discussing his mosaic essay, we reflect on his initial trip to Argentina, the surreal

meetings he had with President Menem, his trips back since that time, and the dilemmas of Jewish power in the diaspora.

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