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30 Years After AMIA Bombing, the Iranian Regime's HispanTV Promotes Antisemitism to Hispanic Audiences
New York, NY, July 15, 2024 ... HispanTV, a Spanish-language media outlet founded by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s state-controlled media corporation and with extensive reach in Latin America, promotes the Iranian regime’s antisemitic views, Holocaust revisionism, anti-Israel prejudice, and incitement, a new ADL report has found.
On the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina—the Iranian regime-backed attack where 85 lives were lost and over 300 people were injured—an ADL report highlights HispanTV's propagation of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in Latin America and beyond. The network's extensive global reach spans nearly 600 million Spanish speakers through satellite, cable, livestreaming, and social media platforms.
Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, currently in Argentina with ADL leaders, said: "On the 30th anniversary of Argentina's deadliest terrorist attack, the AMIA bombing perpetrated by the Iranian regime and its proxy Hezbollah, it's evident that the Iranian regime continues to perpetuate antisemitism through multiple channels. Alongside physical violence, the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the world’s leading state-sponsor of antisemitism and terrorism, uses cultural centers and media across Latin America to incite hostility against Jewish communities. The cynical use of media outlets like HispanTV to amplify antisemitic conspiracies and disinformation is reprehensible and unethical. In our report, we outline concrete steps to urge policymakers and corporations to take swift action to prevent HispanTV and other Iranian regime media from spreading hate through these platforms.”
Among other channels, the Islamic Republic of lran spreads its incitement through the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which the United States sanctioned in 2013 and 2022 for human rights violations. The Iranian regime primarily utilizes IRIB's PressTV (established 2007) and its Spanish-language counterpart, HispanTV (established 2011), to promote global antisemitism.
The report examines concrete examples of how HispanTV propagates antisemitism, revealing how HispanTV spreads conspiracies, falsehoods, myths, and disinformation across several key categories:
- Antisemitic Tropes about Jews and Jewish Power to perpetuate the myth that Zionists, HispanTV’s euphemism for Jews in general, control Hollywood and were also behind the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Post October-7 Disinformation and denialism, twisting the facts of the bloodiest antisemitic attack on Jews since the Holocaust to fabricate an alternative narrative blaming Israel.
- Denialism and Conspiracies related to Latin America, such as the denial of the Iranian regime’s role in the AMIA terrorist attack and the promotion of the obscure Plan Andinia conspiracy.
- Glorifying Terrorism by presenting the indiscriminate violence Tehran’s proxies commit against civilians as a legitimate form on armed resistance.
- Justifying the Eradication of Israel as an illegitimate entity that should not exist in the Middle East.
- Glorifying the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Proxies to counter the "Zionist entity" through its revolutionary forces and proxies.
- Historical Revisionism by distorting events related to the Holocaust and making false comparisons with Zionism and Israel.
- Propagating Anti-Israel Prejudice, falsely claiming that Israel is an Apartheid State and is committing ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians.
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