February 8, 2008
The Twisted Roots of Hispanic Anti-Semitism
Latin America has a pattern of prejudice that is little known but increasingly worrisome
In Caracas in 2006, after the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, the most vocal anti-American leader in the Southern Hemisphere since Fidel Castro, delivered a speech against the Israeli incursion into Lebanon, anti-Semitic graffiti were scribbled on the central Sephardic synagogue. "Zionism=Terrorism," one slogan read. Another, "Jews Assassins." The periodicals Diario Vea and Temas
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