Overview
- President Javier Milei was the main speaker at the IHRA plenary in Buenos Aires on Monday, delivering a forceful address that he framed as defending the future of the West.
- He described Israel as “the bastion of the West” and called the October 7 Hamas attack a turning point that exposed a renewed, reorganized global antisemitism.
- Milei asserted there is an “implicit alliance” between the radical left and Islamist terrorism and urged that efforts to combat antisemitism be explicitly tied to counterterrorism policy.
- He announced that Argentina’s Foreign Ministry will push an initiative to preserve and expand access to Holocaust and World War II archives while Argentina begins its IHRA presidency.
- The speech, attended by senior officials and the IHRA secretary general, is likely to deepen domestic political polarization and shape Argentina’s IHRA agenda and international responses to memory and security issues.