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In a brazen display of antisemitism, fans of Club Atlético All Boys paraded a coffin draped in an Israeli flag, and waved Palestinian and Iranian flags, ahead of a match against Club Atlético Atlanta — a team closely tied to Argentina’s Jewish community — on Saturday in Buenos Aires.
Before a football match today against the Argentine sports club Atlanta, which is closely associated with the Jewish community, fans of the opposing team, All Boys, waved Islamic Republic and Palestinian flags while parading a coffin draped in an Israeli flag through the streets.… pic.twitter.com/IQs4v6eoFz
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 29, 2025
The incident outside Malvinas Argentinas Stadium saw individuals dressed in hazmat suits carrying the symbolic coffin and distributing flyers reading “Free Palestine” and “Israel and Atlanta are the same crap,” fusing anti-Israel sentiment with direct antisemitic incitement.
By equating the Jewish state with a football club known for its Jewish roots and branding both as “crap,” the demonstrators made their message unmistakable: this wasn’t just political — it was a targeted act of hate and an attempt to degrade Jewish identity itself, using crude slurs to vilify both a nation and its people.
Argentina’s Jewish umbrella organization, DAIA (Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas), swiftly condemned the incident as antisemitic and called for immediate legal action against the perpetrators.
Repudiamos enérgicamente las expresiones antisemitas ocurridas hoy en las inmediaciones del estadio Malvinas Argentinas.
Exigimos a las autoridades correspondientes, a la AFA y al Club All Boys que actúen con firmeza ante estos hechos de odio.
La violencia y la discriminación no… pic.twitter.com/3AmY7IQscY— DAIA (@DAIAArgentina) June 29, 2025
Argentine Minister of National Security Patricia Bullrich echoed those demands, publicly warning that if the Buenos Aires municipality failed to act by Monday, she would intervene personally. “There is no place for this kind of hate in our society,” Bullrich said.
This grotesque act is the latest in a troubling pattern of escalating antisemitism in Argentine sports culture. While antisemitism in football has long simmered beneath the surface, incidents like this reveal how openly bigoted displays are increasingly normalized in public spaces — even celebrated by fans in the name of political expression.
As global Jew-hatred rises in intensity and visibility, displays like this one send a dangerous message — that Jews and Jewish institutions are fair game in the public square.
