The reason is incitement to discrimination, after falsely comparing the State of Israel to the Nazis
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In a unanimous decision, the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber upheld the indictment of Vanina Biasi — former national deputy and elected legislator of the City of Buenos Aires — for the crime of incitement todiscrimination, following a series of social media posts in which she compared the State of Israel to the Nazi regime.
The ruling, issued by Chamber I and composed of judges Mariano Llorens, Leopoldo Bruglia, and Pablo Bertuzzi, also confirmed an embargo of 10 million pesos (22,046 pounds) on her assets.
The case began after eight messages were posted on X between November 2023 and January 2024. In these, Biasi described the "Zionist State" as "Nazi," claimed that "Zionism is genocide and apartheid," and accused Israel of using famine "as a mechanism of extermination," among other statements.
Uno de los posteos antisemitas.
Prosecutor Carlos Stornelli pursued the case, considering that such statements constituted incitement to religious hatred and persecution, under Article 3 of Law 23.592.
Among the evidence supporting the accusation are reports from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the testimony of Alejandro Finocchiaro — deputy and Argentine representative to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance —, an opinion from the Observatory for the Fight against Antisemitism at UBA, and submissions from the Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum. Experts and officials specializing in Holocaust remembrance also testified, emphasizing the seriousness of the comparisons used by Biasi.
The legislator's defense argued that these were legitimate political criticisms against the State of Israel and not against the Jewish people, claiming that the ruling violates freedom of expression. The defense also submitted reports from historians and an amicus curiae from human rights organizations.
However, the judges held that the statements were not limited to a political stance, but rather constitute speech that promotes discrimination and hatred, which Argentine criminal law expressly punishes.
With this decision, Argentine justice sends a strong message against the trivialization of the Holocaust and the use of Nazi analogies as a tool of political aggression, reinforcing the country's commitment to historical memory and the fight against antisemitism.
