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Lecture: “Holocaust Denial and Anti-Zionism: New Forms of Anti-Semitism in the River Plate Region”

August 5, 2015
On August 24, 2015, the lecture “Holocaust Denial and Anti-Zionism: New Faces of Anti-Semitism in the River Plate Region” was held on the Pocitos campus. It was presented by Dr. Ricardo López Göttig, a professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the School of Management and Social Sciences and an academic advisor at the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America. The speaker analyzed new manifestations of antisemitism in Uruguay and Argentina.
"Anti-Zionism is a new guise for old-fashioned anti-Semitism. Old conspiracy theories are recycled and turned into absurd narratives. Israel is the cursed country that ideological extremists want to wipe off the map," the speaker states.

Dr. López Göttig holds a Ph.D. in History from Charles University in Prague. He is a professor of history. He served as director of the Political Science program at the University of Belgrano in Argentina. He was a senior researcher at the Friedrich Foundation in Argentina. His publications include: The Founders of the Republic, The Parliamentary Debate on the 1902 Electoral Reform, Borges and Peronism, The Religious Question at the 1853 Constitutional Convention, Free-Trade Socialism in the Argentine Congress between 1912 and 1914, The Legislator, the Community, and Individual Freedom, and The Bicentennial and the Evolution of Republican Institutions.

The event was organized by the university's Department of Jewish Studies.