In an interview with Subrayado TV (Uruguay), B’nai B’rith Director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn condemned the anti-Semitism displayed during the International Women’s Day march in Montevideo, Uruguay. This includes a prominent display of the anti-Semitic phrase “From the river to the sea,” several Palestinian flags and more.

Read in Subrayado (in Spanish) and watch the interview (also in Spanish).

The director of B’nai B’rith Latin America, Eduardo Kohn, told Subrayado that if it had happened in Belgium or Germany, “probably those who did it just because they were there would be imprisoned today.” Kohn said that both events were reprehensible. One of them refers to a sign that said “from the river to the sea.” He explained that the founding letter of Hamas in 1988, mentions that the State of Israel must be exterminated as well as the Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Currently, Hamas continues to use that slogan. “That poster is inciting hatred and is taking sides with a slogan of a terrorist and murderer movement that committed the barbarism of October 7 of last year in Israel,” he said.

The director of B’nai B’rith highlighted the presence of girls during the event who were holding a doll “pomperace, a monster with very bulging eyes and two very fierce fangs and a star of David stuck on the forehead.” For Kohn, those types of symbols were used by the Nazis before and during the seizure of power.

“It is an apology for crime, that in any country that has anti-discrimination law, as it happens in Europe and also happens in South America, it is a crime, in addition there is an apology for a hate crime,” he said. He added: “If that had happened yesterday at the women’s march in Belgium, in Germany, those who did it just for being there would probably be imprisoned today.”