Gonzalo Zuttión

The Buenos Aires Justice declared “inadmissible“ the appeals filed by the DAIA and the Prosecutor’s Office. This new resolution is the fourth instance in favor of our comrade Alejandro Bodart. It rejects the last appeal, ratifies his acquittal and gives a new defeat to the attempts of Zionism to criminalize the defense of the Palestinian people and the denunciation of genocide.

A new and forceful court decision has just handed a heavy defeat to Zionism and its attempts at censorship. On March 27, 2026, Chamber I of the Court of Cassation and Criminal Appeals of the City of Buenos Aires ruled that the appeals of unconstitutionality filed by the Prosecutor’s Office and the DAIA’s complaint were totally inadmissible. Both parties sought to bring the case before the local High Court of Justice in order to reverse the acquittal of our colleague Alejandro Bodart.

This decision ratifies once again a fundamental principle for our militancy and human rights, making it clear that denouncing the genocide perpetrated by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people does not constitute a crime.

To understand the magnitude of this victory, it is necessary to review how Zionism tried to criminalize freedom of expression throughout all these years. It all began with a few simple messages on social networks where Bodart questioned the criminal actions of the State of Israel. At first, the judge in the case dismissed the accusation, although the insistence of the plaintiff managed to force the start of an oral trial. During this process, qualified witnesses were presented, and the overwhelming evidence led to a first and undisputed acquittal. Unwilling to accept reality, the Zionist lobby appealed and obtained a temporary conviction. This enormous injustice was quickly reversed in September 2025 when the Chamber of Cassation annulled the sentence and again acquitted our comrade. Now, in the face of the desperate attempt by the DAIA and the prosecution to continue escalating the judicial conflict, the courts have once again slammed the door in their faces by dismissing their appeal.

In the latter instance, the plaintiffs sought to argue that the previous acquittal was illogical and arbitrary. They demanded that the definition of anti-Semitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IRHA) be applied exclusively and claimed that Bodart’s messages represented hate speech under the guidelines of the Rabat Action Plan.

The court completely dismantled these crude maneuvers by explaining that the plaintiff failed to prove a true constitutional case. Ultimately, the Court’s response laid bare the trap of the DAIA and the Prosecutor’s Office. The complainants had no real constitutional argument to present and their only annoyance was that the previous judges had interpreted the publications in favor of our comrade Bodart recognizing his right to express his opinion.

Through this appeal, they intended to use the highest court of the City as a kind of a reprimand to force a conviction on pure ideological whim, which is also an attempt to discipline anyone who tries to defend the Palestinian cause. It was a desperate attempt that the magistrates put the brakes on by making it clear that these high judicial spheres are not there to indulge political tantrums resulting from Zionist frustration. Furthermore, they rejected the accusation of institutional gravity, considering that its claims were generic and unsubstantiated to justify the intervention of the highest local court. This means that the plaintiff sought to invent that the messages of our colleague put society as a whole at risk and threatened peaceful coexistence. They tried to enlarge the case in a totally artificial way in order to generate alarm and force the High Court to take the file.

All these court decisions conclude exactly the same thing. It has been fully demonstrated that there was no discriminatory action. This whole persecutory process orchestrated by the DAIA was a clear attempt to criminalize a political opinion in repudiation of genocide and in defense of the Palestinian people.

The enormous work of the defense lawyers María del Carmen Verdú and Ismael Jalil was vital to destroy each one of the lies presented by the prosecution and the complaint. This enormous victory belongs to them, to our comrade Bodart, to the militancy of the MST and the LIS and to the immense national and international solidarity campaign that was raised to stop this institutional outrage.

We hope that the defenders of the genocide will stop insisting with their absurd appeals and recognize once and for all this definitive acquittal. Knowing the nature of these actors and taking advantage of the strength that this struggle gives us, we prepare ourselves for any attempt to continue the persecution. Because it has become clear that they tried to build a witness case to curtail free opinion and any criticism of the genocide and they have failed. Undoubtedly, so much persecution is due to the fact that the reality of the genocide is coming to light and that denouncing it is not a crime.

Today the whole world stands up to repudiate the massacre in the Middle East. This ruling represents an indispensable shield to protect other activists persecuted by Zionism worldwide. The forcefulness of this legal victory gives us much more strength to demand the immediate annulment of similar persecutory cases, such as the one currently faced by comrade Vanina Biasi.

Supported by this very important victory, we keep our guard up and continue the campaign and actions in defense of Bodart. We will never allow our voices to be silenced and we will continue to denounce the genocide perpetrated by Israel until we conquer a truly free Palestine from the river to the sea.