Argentina recognized Israel in 1949, and today Kirchnerism marches with Hamas.

In 1949, under the presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, Argentina became one of the first countries in the world to officially recognize the nascent State of Israel.

In a global scenario still shaken by the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II, Peronist Argentina made a strategic diplomatic decision: to legitimize the Jewish people in their right to have a sovereign state in their historic land.

Far from the nationalist and isolationist caricature that many make of Perón, the truth is that his foreign policy was able to move with pragmatism and vision. In the midst of the Cold War, Perón extended a hand to both Western powers and the new Israel.

While other Latin American countries hesitated or aligned themselves with the Arab rejection, Argentina opted for bilateral relations with the Jewish state.

This decision laid the foundation for a relationship that, with its nuances, continued to grow. The local Jewish community, one of the largest in the world outside Israel, found in that period an institutional recognition that would be key to its development.

From recognition to betrayal: the Kirchnerist decade

Decades later, that historic legacy would be blown up by those who call themselves "heirs of Peronism." Kirchnerism, far from honoring that foundational decision, transformed Argentina's foreign policy into an ideological instrument serving the most retrograde causes on the planet.

The most obscene expression of that deviation was the memorandum of understanding with Iran, signed during the second term of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

That infamous agreement, which sought to divert the investigation into the AMIA attack—committed by terrorists financed by Tehran—sealed a political and commercial alliance with the ayatollahs' regime, a declared enemy of Israel and the Jewish community worldwide.

Prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused Cristina of cover-up and was found dead under highly suspicious circumstances. Since then, Kirchnerism has systematically flirted with anti-Semitic positions disguised as "solidarity with Palestine," a cause that today is used as a banner to attack the government of Javier Milei and his clear alignment with the West, with Israel, and with the values of civilization.

The arrival of Milei: a return to moral clarity

With Javier Milei's rise to power in 2023, Argentina once again stood with dignity on the international stage. His administration has not only been the most explicit in supporting the State of Israel in all of Argentine history, but has done so at key moments: after the terrorist massacre of October 7 perpetrated by Hamas, and amid the international onslaught of progressive sectors seeking to demonize Israel for exercising its right to self-defense.

Milei did not hesitate: he condemned terrorism, expressed solidarity with the victims, traveled to Israel, and made it clear that Argentina will stand with liberal democracies, not with those who burn flags, indoctrinate from radicalized mosques, or murder women and children.

This shift restores to Argentina's foreign policy something that Kirchnerism had taken away: a clear moral compass. There are no more half-measures, no double discourse, no diplomacy surrendered to the "brotherhood of oppressed peoples" while doing business with dictatorships.

The left that marches with Hamas and gets paid by the State

While Milei embraces Netanyahu and defends Israel's right to exist, Kirchnerists continue to march in Buenos Aires with Palestinian flags, keffiyehs, and signs with slogans denying the Holocaust or glorifying terrorism.

They do so in public universities, with teachers paid by the State. They do so in human rights organizations co-opted by paid activists. They do so with resources that still filter in from provinces governed by the PJ or from unions aligned with La Cámpora.

They do so, above all, with total ideological impunity: because in their narrative, the oppressor is always Israel, the hero is always the one who throws stones (or missiles), and democracy is always at fault before the "people."

Kirchnerist hypocrisy knows no bounds

The same people who demand trans quotas, inclusive language, and sex education in schools do not say a word about the Islamic law that prevails in Gaza, where homosexuality is punished with imprisonment or death, where women are second-class citizens, and where political opponents are executed without trial.

The same people who cry over lawfare in Argentina defend regimes like the Iranian or Hamas, which censor the media, control private life, and persecute religious minorities. In the name of "resistance," they legitimize barbarism. In the name of "anti-imperialism," they justify murderous theocracy.

History will judge the accomplices

If Perón recognized Israel when almost no one else did, and Milei supports it when many abandon it, Kirchnerism will go down in history as the political movement that betrayed the basic principles of civilization in the name of a decadent ideology.

It is no coincidence that pro-Palestinian marches in Argentina today have more red and green flags than sky blue and white ones. For them, the homeland doesn't matter. The nation is an uncomfortable concept. The only thing that interests them is the narrative, ideological positioning, childish resentment against the United States, against the West, against capitalism, against freedom.

Argentina must decide which side it is on

While Kirchnerism waves Palestinian flags to victimize itself and justify Hamas, the national government tells the world: Argentina stands with Israel. Argentina stands with democracy. Argentina will not kneel anymore.