Editing Jacobo Timerman (section)

===1976 military coup===
A [[1976 Argentine coup d'état|coup in 1976]] installed General [[Jorge Rafael Videla]] and began "''[[National Reorganization Process|el Proceso]]''"— military rule, including widespread persecution that came to be known as Argentina's "[[Dirty War]]". Timerman like many others had initially supported a military takeover, on the grounds that it might curb the country's pervasive violence.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ocampo |first1=Luis Moreno |title=Beyond Punishment: Justice in the Wake of Massive Crimes in Argentina |journal=Journal of International Affairs |date=1999 |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=669–689 |id={{ProQuest|220701642}} |jstor=24358059 }}</ref>

Timerman continued to publish ''La Opinión'' for a year after the coup. He later speculated that moderates within the military had kept the paper alive because "the continued existence of ''La Opinión'' was a credit abroad; it backed the philosophy of future national reconstruction, it upheld the thesis of national unity, and was committed on a daily basis to curbing extremist excesses."<ref>Timerman, ''Prisoner Without a Name'' (1981), p. 27</ref> The precise position of (and divisions within) the new government regarding Timerman and his paper, remains unknown.<ref>Rein & Davidi, "Exile of the World" (2010), p. 5. "Accordingly the question arises as to whether Timerman—who had supported the coup d'état that overthrew the Peronist government in March 1976 in the hope that it would restore confidence in the national institutions—was a victim of internal struggles between different groups in the armed forces competing for control of the regime, or whether he was arrested because of the intrinsic antisemitism of the military command. In addition, some commentators have suggested that, in the year since the coup, the generals had come to consider their former friend to be their most dangerous enemy and to believe that it was impossible to neutralize the only newspaper publishing news about what went on in government circles".</ref>

Anti-semitism increased during the 1970s as right-wing factions became more powerful. Jews were targeted in the media, including television stations operated by the government. A book called ''Plan Andinia'', published anonymously in 1977, warned of [[Andinia Plan|an international Zionist conspiracy to control part of Argentina]].<ref>Schoijet, ''The Timerman Affair'' (1983), p. 27. "Although Argentina had a previous history of anti-Semitism, a new anti-Semitic drive that began in 1969 reached its climax in 1977. That year marked the beginning of large-scale social unrest, and the publication of Nazi literature by a mysteriously well-financed publishing house located in the southern town of Bariloche. The anonymous publication of 'Plan Andinia' also took place in 1977. This anti-Semitic raving described a Jewish conspiracy against Argentina, which had the goal of establishing a Jewish-controlled puppet state after having secured the secession of the southern territories."</ref>

Anti-semitic bombings also increased, to a frequency of ten per month in 1976.<ref name=Schoijet27>Schoijet, "The Timerman Affair" (1983), p. 27.</ref> Police defused bombs placed outside of ''La Opinión'' headquarters during a wave of antisemitic violence in August of that year.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|661014501}} |title=Rising tide of antisemitism worrying Jews in Argentina |work=The Boston Globe |date=30 August 1976 |page=2 }}</ref> An enormous bomb detonated in early 1977, at a screening of ''[[Victory at Entebbe]]'' (a pro-Israel film) in [[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]], which damaged almost 80 businesses.<ref name=Schoijet27 />

At the beginning of April, the military began to arrest people connected to the Argentine banker [[David Graiver]], who had left the country in 1975 and was reported killed in a plane accident in Mexico in 1976. He had been under suspicion of financing the left-wing [[Montoneros]] guerrillas through money laundering of millions of dollars derived from their kidnapping ransoms. Reports suggest that between 100 and 300 people were arrested under this charge.<ref name=Schoijet27 />