B’nai B’rith International is deeply troubled by a series of anti-Semitic incidents in Argentina recently. This week, swastikas were painted on some 30 graves at a Jewish cemetery in the province of San Luis. “Death to Jews” was also scrawled on the cemetery walls.

Jewish graves at a cemetery in Buenos Aires were desecrated in early December. And just a few days ago, the phrase “Argentina is a Catholic country” was scrawled on a Menorah that Chabad Lubavitch had installed on Avenida 9 de Julio, one of the main avenues in Buenos Aires, for Chanukah.

Each incident is troubling in its own right. But taken together, these despicable desecrations reveal a most worrisome pattern. We hope these abhorrent hateful acts in a democratic nation with the largest Jewish population in Latin America are not an omen of more intolerance to come.

B’nai B’rith International calls for a thorough investigation of these crimes.