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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:37 AM
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Report: Anti-Semitism on rise in Venezuela
New York, NY - Under the leadership of firebrand President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has experienced a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism, fostered in large part by Chavez's own rhetoric and that of his government institutions.

A new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) details the troubling mix of anti-Semitism and support for radical Islam that - along with anti-imperialism and anti-Americanism - have become the calling cards of the Chavez regime.

"The Chavez Regime: Fostering Anti-Semitism and Supporting Radical Islam" examines recent statements by Chavez, articles in the government-sponsored media and the remarks of academics and government leaders, creating a portrait of a regime that promotes virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attitudes as it seeks to position itself as a regional and world player.


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325325,00.html
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:40 AM
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1. An USA PsyOps Production? n/t
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:43 AM
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2. ADL link
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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:50 AM
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3. The ADL used to be a civil rights organization. It is now a
group whose purpose it is to support Israeli policy. That is their right, but it should be made clear where they are coming from.
They are supporters of anti-Arab extremism, not civil rights. They have supported Bush policies no matter how extreme.
http://tomjoad.org/pipes.htm
I think this takes the cake... they applauded right-wing extremist Dan Pipe's appointment by the bush-boy. Dan Pipes is no moderate.
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:50 AM
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4. P.R.O.P.A.G.A.N.D.A. - the Bushes really hate Chavez don't they?
n/t
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:55 AM
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5. Oh good.
Two kinds of flame bait combined ...
:popcorn::popcorn:
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:04 PM
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8. I did not post this to start a flame war
The article points to specific concerns like:

Israel Bashing: The government's rhetoric has become increasingly anti-Zionist, comparing Israel and Zionism to Nazi Germany. These views are frequently expressed in various Venezuelan government-sponsored media outlets, in radio and TV broadcasts, newspaper articles and political cartoons. Israel is the target of Venezuelan government officials and faculty of public universities who have received an implicit "green light" from Chavez to promote classical anti-Zionist and increasingly anti-Semitic views. Following Chavez's provocative September 2006 speech to the U.N., reports in the government-sponsored media suggested that the CIA and Mossad were plotting his assassination.

and:

Intimidation and Vandalism: Government sponsored anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism may have an impact on the well-being of the Jewish community in Venezuela. The frequency of intimidation, vandalism and physical attacks against Jewish institutions in Venezuela is on the rise. Anti-Semitic graffiti and leaflets have appeared near synagogues and densely populated Jewish neighborhoods with statements including "Jews Assassins," "Jews Dogs," "Go Away Zionists," "Jewish Zionist Assassins Leave," and Stars of David equated with swastikas.

The article documents these assertions.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:38 PM
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11. No implication about your intentions was meant.
I post flame bait myself at times.
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msmcghee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:42 PM
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12. You? No way!
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 12:43 PM by msmcghee
(Imagine a good-natured chuckle here.)

Your posts are (added on edit: almost) always interesting and worth reading - even though we seldom agree. Keep it up. B-)
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:01 PM
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14. We come here to discuss, yes? nt
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:08 PM
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16. Indeed we do
and I appreciate your posts as well.:-)
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RethugAssKicker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 11:56 AM
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6. More Lies and More smears against Chavez....
The more good he does for his people, the more the US hates him.

This is total BS...He has allowed the MSM in his own country to remain although it is a tool of the RW and is constantly smearing him.

They are now reaching for straws... He must have said something negative about a Jewish owned corp. and now he is a ant-semite, Islamo fascist!.

PROPAGANDA LIES!!!!!!!!
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:11 PM
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9. Venezuelan press
Cianuro en Gotas (Cyanide in Drops)

Los Papeles de Mandinga (weekly), September 19-25, 2006

"Those who are upset with Ahmadinejad's visit to Venezuela are the gangsters of the local Jewish mafia; the terrorists who control the Confederations of Israelite Associations (CAIV) and other criminal organizations of similar reputation. They are saying stupid things about anti-Semitism. Those terrorists, those people who applaud each time that the terrorist State of Israel mutilates, assassinates an Arab child; nobody has ever heard these criminals of the Confederation say even one word of condolence for the Arab victims of the Israeli aggression. It seems that the government is anti-Semitic."

Zionist Menace in Venezuela by Basem Tajeldine
Diario VEA (newspaper), September 14, 2006

"It was to be expected. The profound humanistic conviction and moral solidity of commander Chavez for denouncing the atrocities that are systematically committed by the State of Israel against Arab people, have bothered the cancers of the inferno—international imperialism and Zionism.

"World Zionists have reacted to the impressive international political figure of President Chavez, accusing him of 'demonizing the State of Israel… and masking its anti-Semitism in terms of anti-Zionism' (declarations by the international Zionist agency based in New York, ADL). The Confederation of Israelite Associations of Venezuela (CAIV), the Zionist enclave in the country, reacted similarly much earlier. They both announced the possibility that such positions could be importing the conflict to the country. Actually ADL went beyond, 'such positions could be used by others to justify violence against Jews in Venezuela.'

"On December 2, 2004, this same organization (instrument of international Zionism also based in New York) issued a press release which condemned the raid conducted by Venezuelan intelligence against Hebraica, for proving the involvement of certain Zionist members with the assassination of Danilo Anderson. In that communication the Bolivarian government was accused of persecuting Jews in Venezuela. But they remained quiet when it was demonstrated that for the killing of Danilo Anderson methods were applied similar to those applied by Mossad against the Palestinian resistance…

"It is very well known in the world the terrorist acts perpetrated by the Israeli Mossad against its own Jewish community to justify its criminal cause. History reminds us the historic alliance of the German Zionism with Nazi Germany"

Zionist Jews by Tarek Muci Nasir
El Diario Caracas (newspaper), September 2, 2006

"Zionists, the destructive sect of radical Jews, are again impregnating the Jewish community with its animosity towards humanity. The genocide they executed in Palestine and Lebanon is similar to the Holocaust which the Nazis executed against them, and they will undergo another Holocaust because of the global hatred they are accumulating. If the Jews have charged the Nazis for their victims, they will have to pay Lebanon for their killings. The Jewish race is condemned to disappear, because if they continue marrying among themselves they will continue to degenerate; if they open their marriages they will racially dilute themselves, so their only recourse is to stay united, to provoke wars, and auto-genocides.

"Israelis are lying when they say they are the favored people of God; on the contrary, because they are always at war and without their own land, it seems that they are marked for having destroyed Jesus Christ. We should reform the Bible which falsely refers to them as the chosen race by God, and we will act to stop them from manipulating the Jewish community. The United States is trapped by Zionists who control their economy and many critical positions in their government; and we must avoid that this critical situation takes place in Venezuela before they also ruin us, because they can possess any nationality, but first they act as Jews in whatever land they plant themselves. Israel couldn't resist that despite possessing Jerusalem as the capital of the Christian world, Lebanon continued to have more international tourism, and now, due to international repulsion, Israel will have even less .

"Let's pay attention of the Israeli-Zionist associations, unions and federations which are conspiring in Venezuela to take over our finances, our industries, commerce, construction; which are infiltrating government positions and politics. Possibly, we'll have to expel them from the country, as other nations have done, which is the reason that Jews remain in a continuous state of stateless exodus, and it is why in 1948 they invaded Palestine, guided by Albion. Will global justice allow the United States, England, and Israel to destroy the Middle East to take over its oil? Only the union of its people will save them…"

Nazi Zionist Fury by Luis Cadenas
Diario Vea (newspaper), July 4, 2006

"Undoubtedly the political, economic and military Israeli elites inherited the fascist weight of Hitler's Nazi Germany. In the 21st Century the actions of the government of Israel increase its terrorist character against the Palestinian nation and other countries with the support of the terrorist government of George W. Bush. Bush, similar to Hitler, wants to dominate the world, destroying human life, with its economic and military power, wanting to take possession of the riches of third world countries...

"The people of Israel should remember when Hitler… assassinated millions of people for being Jewish… But if these actions are to be condemned, the actions of the Israeli government supported by its father Bush are as condemnable as those of Hitler… The Israeli people should not allow its leadership to repeat the genocide of which it was a victim… The Jewish people should call to stop the killings of that the Zionists and the U.S. empire want to impose in the name of liberty and democracy… Out of Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, fascists, Zionists, Neo-Nazi, Neoliberals of Bush and the Zionist government of Israel."

De Primera Mano (First Hand) by Vladimir Acosta
Radio Nacional de Venezuela, October 9, 2006

"…The government of Israel through its Mossad related companies are working with U.S. companies to build the barrier between Mexico and the U.S…. A few days ago Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Israeli extreme right wing party Likud, declared in a meeting with other U.S. businessmen and politicians that the Mexicans were to the U.S. what the Palestinians were for Israel. In fact Israel has been involved for 70 years in Latin America in all type of dirty business, arms sales to Central American countries, training of guerrillas, torture in the Southern Cone and spying through the Mossad…It is important that Venezuela continue to revise their relationship with Israel maintaining a distance from that genocidal government …"

Los Papeles de Mandinga, (The Papers of Mandinga—"the Devil") by Alberto Nolia
YVKE Mundial (Radio), July 19, 2006

"Terrorist and assassins, criminals of the fierce dictatorship of the State of Israel. They are destroying Lebanon, a country that can't defend itself from the Israeli aggressions. Israel has thermonuclear arms and they have willingness to use them, they are assassins. For these criminals who govern the State of Israel only Jews are human beings, and not all Jews, only Jews who live in the State of Israel, because the ones who live in other parts of the world are seen as garbage; they only thing they are good for is to ask them for money…

"Those assassin Zionist dogs, who can't be called anything else, killers, criminals, are Nazis who are destroying a defenseless country with great indifference of the great powers of the world. This is happening in front of the government of the White House drug addict, the garbage called George Bush and the dogs that are by his side…

"I ask myself and I ask that rat that Israel has as an Ambassador here and the garbage that controls the Confederation of Israelite Associations in Venezuela (CAIV), a group of Nazis who do not represent the Jews in Venezuela, the majority who are decent people, who are not to blame for the genocidal plans of the government of Israel. Well, they should respond, how many children has the SS Jews , because they are from the SS with Israeli uniforms, but the SS were more ethical. They were more decent than the assassin soldiers of Israel. I ask them how many children have they killed as a result of the kidnapping of 2 Jewish soldiers in what is a typical act of war to keep soldiers as prisoners…

"In that Zionist, criminal and terrorist state, the Arabs who are supposed to be citizens … are not allowed in Universities…in that Zionist and terrorist state where a large percentage are Arabs there is not a single Arab in Parliament… and they call this democracy. By the way, Israel is the only country in the world where torture is legal, not even in Nazi Germany was torture legal; of course the German Nazis practiced torture just like the Nazi State of Israel, but at least in Germany it was theoretically illegal.

"They say is a democracy. It is a fundamentalist theocracy where a religious sect of conservative Jews monopolizes all businesses in Israel. The Israeli army only serves kosher food, blessed by the rabbis of the conservative sect and of course they charge fortunes to certify the Kosher status of that food; is that a democracy? It is very amusing to me the democracy of Ariel Sharon or that of Adolf Olmert or Ehud Hitler."

La Hojilla (The Blade) by Mario Silva
Venezolana de Television (TV), September 22, 2006

Mario Silva, the program host, referenced an article by Heinz Dietrich, a left-wing political scientist living in Mexico, in which he states that the Bush administration wants to assassinate President Chavez and would use Mossad-type methods. Silva says, " would presumably use methods such as the Israeli secret service death squads, who routinely kill enemies in other counties…The model to follow, according to Dietrich is the successful poisoning used to kill Yasser Arafat. There was a public debate back then in Israel and Ehud Olmert declared that the assassination of President Arafat was legitimate, but questioned whether it was practical to eliminate Arafat. After that successful operation do you think the fascist presidents Ehud Olmert and George Bush would doubt of the practicality and legitimacy of removing the obstacles of peace? In other words the oil peace represented by Chavez?"

Don't see any RW talking points in these articles, just a lot of anti-semitism.
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RethugAssKicker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:53 PM
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18. It is well known
that the MSM in Venezuela is anti-Chavez. I can not speak for every article in a foreign countrys newspaper. If you are not aware of the RW leanings of the Venezuela oligarchy, I can provide links.
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 06:07 PM
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25. Quick, change the subject!
Because you obviously do not have the decency to acknowledge the other poster was right.

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liberalsoldier5 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:53 PM
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13. I think 'RethugAssKicker' is out of his/her mind
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 12:55 PM by liberalsoldier5
and you're making us look bad. Chavez isn't anti-Republican, he's anti-United States. He has major issues with Clinton too. As Nancy said, he's a thug. I'm sorry to be so blunt but it seems that you write off EVERYTHING and ANYTHING negative about Chavez as "propoganda." In my opinion, he doesn't deserve such cheerleading. Authoritarian socialism isn't something American liberals should be championing. And yes, I do pray that any rising anti-Semitism in that country can be quelled as soon as possible.
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RethugAssKicker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:47 PM
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17. Well, "Liberalsoldier".... you keep buying the Propaganda... I
for one won't. I'm surprised you didn't call him a dictator!

He is not anti-US... he is anti imperalism !.. Citgo was the only oil corp that responded to our senators pleas for oil discounts. THE ONLY ONE ! None of OUR American corps even replied !.. The fat bastards kept all their "windfall" profits. Did NOTHING to help the people of the US.

You believe the corportacracy, I'll side with the people, the people who have felt the pain of imperalism for the last 500 FUCKING years. . But guess what, They're not taking that shit any more!!!...



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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:59 PM
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19. The US is not imperialistic
So I don't get your point.
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RethugAssKicker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 02:13 PM
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20. Oh My... Please....
Start by reading some of Noam Chomskys books... or easier yet,

Listen/watch some of his lectures concerning Latin America.

One of his latest is "Latin America: Stirrings in the servants quarter"
Can view it at AlternativeRadio.com (I think thats the URL).

Latin America has been Americas playground in Impreralistic policies.... From Columbia all the way to Argentina.. There is so much material, so much proof. You must become aware of this... I have just recently educated myself, and am continuing, to the absolute atrocites that the US has perpetuated on the peoples of Latin America.

Its amazing how little WE know of Latin American history. Really nothing at all.
But please become aware of just how awful we have treated Latin America and the Carribean too.
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 02:40 PM
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21. I'm familiar with past covert ops in Latin America
and I agree with you, it was atrocious. But it's a serious stretch to call todays US Latin American policy "Imperialistic".
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RethugAssKicker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 02:55 PM
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22. I'll give you one example:
Today we have a policy called "Plan Columnbia".

This is part of the so called War on Drugs.. One thing we do is spray the crops of poor farmers, supposedly to wipe out the Coca plants.. However, we are spraying these toxic chemicals on ALL their crops !... This causes thousnads of poor families to vacate their land and head for the slums in the cities. With their land vacant, guess what happens... US companies, backed by a RW govt take over their land for the interests OF US CORPS... ...

If thats not imperialism, I don't know what is... And there is so much more that is happening NOW as we speak... Please just check out Chomsky.
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-13-06 06:03 PM
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24. Wow he allowed the press to continue to exist!
What a humanitarian!

The spin on some of the authoritarian bents of Chavez is becoming hilarious.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:02 PM
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7. Sounds more like disinformation to me.
That same sort of shit had been alleged about Nicuaraga some years back. The truth of the matter is that some of the most VIRULENT of the anti-Semites in Central & South America were among the FAR-right oligarchy-supporters down there. Many of them were openly pro-Nazi.

I have some admiration for what ADL has done in the past, it looks like they've been co-opted by you-know-who.

pnorman
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msmcghee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 12:34 PM
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10. Thanks for posting this.
Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 01:06 PM by msmcghee
Just a few months ago I was thinking that Chavez might be an OK leader with his people's best interests in mind. I was probably giving him undue respect because I shared his extreme hatred of Bush.

Now it is becoming apparent that he's more interested in politics and power than any recognizable ethical principles. Sad, I was looking forward to visiting Venezuela someday.
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Phx_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 01:04 PM
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15. If one ever wondered why the Right of Return is important to jews
Don't have to look any farther than Venezuela. The rhetoric coming from Chavez and the media is very troubling, as well as the rise in anti-semitic activities.
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Amused Musings Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-09-06 04:25 PM
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23. What was it Lenin said?
"Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools"
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