Anti-Semitism in Chavez's Venezuela: An Untold Story

“Over the past four years, Venezuela has witnessed alarming signs of state-directed anti-Semitism.” Chavez’s statements alone are full of references to the cruicifiers of Christ and Bolivar, and now armed men are attacking synagogues and conducting raids: “his mobilization of anti-Semitic rhetoric is the characterization of his entire opposition as anti-national.”