In Venezuela, They Think That Anti-Zionism Really Does Have Something To Do With Anti-Semitism
Hugo Chavez is a hero to the netroots and a fan of Noam Chomsky. He is also supported by - and supports - vicious and genocidal anti-Semitism:
I am posting the translation of an article... that was published in El Diario de Caracas, a pro Chavez paper which has the pretense to pass as a normal rag... Keeping track of such garbage shows that indeed the Chavez speech at the UN is not a mere incident, it is a clear confrontational strategy organized by a group of mad men that desperately want to figure in history books, at the expense of other folks blood if necessary:
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... Let's pay attention of the Israeli-Zionist associations, unions and federations which are conspiring to Venezuela to take over our finances, our industries, commerce, construction; which are infiltrating government positions and politics.
That, of course, is the not-so-secret way that all genocidal conspiracy theories justify mass genocide: 'well, in theory there are good Jews (anti-Zionists) and bad Jews (Zionists), but the bad Jews have infiltrated the good Jews and so now we have to wipe them all out'. It just so happens that this Chavez outlet is a little more honest (or a little ahead of the curve) of even some Egyptian and Syrian papers. Again: Chavez and his supporters are heros to the Democratic base - and, yes, to mainstream Democratic politicians as well:
Various Democrats have looked with favor upon the anti-American Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez over the years, his record of deepening anti-Semitism notwithstanding. Ex-president Carter helped him secure his position by certifying election results that others have cast doubt upon. In 2002, 16 Democratic Congressmen, including senior Judiciary Committee member John Conyers of Michigan, voiced their support for Chavez when they sent a letter to President Bush complaining that America was not protecting Chavez from internal opposition to his authoritarian and increasingly erratic rule. In that same year, Representative William Delahunt of Massachusetts established a “Venezuelan Caucus” to show “friendship to President Chavez”.
Kinds of puts in perspective their outrage about how liberal Jews rub shoulders with evangelical Christians.
I am posting the translation of an article... that was published in El Diario de Caracas, a pro Chavez paper which has the pretense to pass as a normal rag... Keeping track of such garbage shows that indeed the Chavez speech at the UN is not a mere incident, it is a clear confrontational strategy organized by a group of mad men that desperately want to figure in history books, at the expense of other folks blood if necessary:
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... Let's pay attention of the Israeli-Zionist associations, unions and federations which are conspiring to Venezuela to take over our finances, our industries, commerce, construction; which are infiltrating government positions and politics.
That, of course, is the not-so-secret way that all genocidal conspiracy theories justify mass genocide: 'well, in theory there are good Jews (anti-Zionists) and bad Jews (Zionists), but the bad Jews have infiltrated the good Jews and so now we have to wipe them all out'. It just so happens that this Chavez outlet is a little more honest (or a little ahead of the curve) of even some Egyptian and Syrian papers. Again: Chavez and his supporters are heros to the Democratic base - and, yes, to mainstream Democratic politicians as well:
Various Democrats have looked with favor upon the anti-American Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez over the years, his record of deepening anti-Semitism notwithstanding. Ex-president Carter helped him secure his position by certifying election results that others have cast doubt upon. In 2002, 16 Democratic Congressmen, including senior Judiciary Committee member John Conyers of Michigan, voiced their support for Chavez when they sent a letter to President Bush complaining that America was not protecting Chavez from internal opposition to his authoritarian and increasingly erratic rule. In that same year, Representative William Delahunt of Massachusetts established a “Venezuelan Caucus” to show “friendship to President Chavez”.
Kinds of puts in perspective their outrage about how liberal Jews rub shoulders with evangelical Christians.
