JTA — As Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, hit several Jewish hotspots in New York City this week, a criminal complaint was filed in his home country against a popular streamer who questioned the leader’s outspoken support for Israel and appeared to suggest that Jews bore responsibility for recent wildfires in Patagonia.

Milei praised the complaint on social media.

During a monologue earlier this week, popular Argentinian streamer Tomás Rebord criticized Milei, who has stood out as one of Israel’s staunchest international supporters in recent years, for his repeated trips to Israel and emotional response to visiting the Western Wall.

“I like religion, I like theology, but how many times can you get excited by a stone wall,” said Rebord, who has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. “Why does he have to travel to Israel six times a year? Why? I understand the American agenda, but even the Yankees aren’t doing that, man.”

Milei has not visited Israel six times in a year, but he has made two visits since entering office in 2023 as an avowed philosemite who says he hopes one day to become Jewish and peppers his public comments with references to Jewish texts.

This week, Milei visited New York for “Argentina Week,” a three-day roadshow aimed at attracting investment to Argentina. During his travels, he visited the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement — for at least the second time — and........

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