It was an honor, and deeply moving, to host the ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of the AMIA terrorist attack at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, together with the U.S. Department of State and AMIA.
We thank the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, and all those who made this act of memory and reflection possible.
A privilege to feature the words of Ambassador Gregory LoGerfo; State Department Legal Adviser Reed Rubinstein; AMIA President Osvaldo Armoza; and Daniel Pomeranz, survivor of the attack and a symbol of resilience in the face of terror. Our thanks as well to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast for his steadfast support.
The venue was no coincidence. Honoring the victims of terrorism in an institution devoted to peace is not a contradiction: true peace demands firmness against those who choose terror.
The AMIA bombing was not only an Argentine tragedy, nor solely an attack on the Jewish community: it was an attack on life, on open society, on freedom, and on the democratic values our nations defend.
Thirty-two years on, Argentina continues to demand memory, truth, and justice. As the exhibition opened today at the Embassy reads: “what is not remembered, dies; and what is remembered, never dies.” To remember is not only a moral duty, it is resistance against oblivion and impunity.