There have already been two major anti-Semitic attacks in Venezuela this year. The second one - where a Caracas Jewish community center was firebombed - happened a few weeks ago. The one before that happened at the end of January. About a dozen thugs - at least 7 of which turned out to be linked to the government - broke into a synagogue. They proceeded to trash the sanctuary, desecrate holy objects, and make off with some of the synagogue's property. Israel Matzav posted a video of the damage at the time, which was extensive. But what was even more disturbing was the stolen property. It was quite specific:

Computer hard drives, containing the database with the names, addresses, of almost every Jewish family in Venezuela. This includes donor lists, member lists, Jewish school lists, many including residences and place of business. This was not an act of common, even professional anti-semitic vandalism. This was a well-planned mission to retrieve the name and address of every Jew in Venezuela... With this list in the hands of this highly trained and organized group, every Venezuelan Jew is at risk. This cannot happen again.

Now couple that with the Nazi-like plan of action published in the pro-Chavez digital outlet newspaper, Aporrea.org:

- publicly denouncing by name, the members of powerful Jewish groups in Venezuela, names of their companies and businesses in order to boycott them
- avoiding products, stores, supermarkets, restaurants, and where Kosher food is sold which either belongs or has links with 'Zionist Jews'
- questioning the existence of Jewish educational institutions
- shouting pro-Palestine and anti-Israel slogans at Jews on the street
- inviting anti-Zionist Jews living in Venezuela to publicly express their disassociation from 'Zionist war crimes' and the imposition of artificial State of Israel on Palestine
- nationalization of companies, confiscation of properties of those Jews who support the Zionist atrocities of the Nazi-State of Israel, and donate this property to the Palestinian victims of today's Holocaust
- sending all type of aid to Palestinians including weapons
- hacking pro-Zionist websites including governments or institutions that have relations with Israel
- organizing an international conference about the creation of the theocratic - Nazi state of Israel as a genocidal European colony, and about the myths and facts of the alleged Jewish Holocaust or Holohoax (a blackmailing industry)
- support the dissolution of the artificial State of Israel

The article was eventually deleted from the site because the professor who wrote it, Emilio Silva from the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, forgot to include "Zionist" before every denigratory use of the word "Jew." There are rules about these things. You have to include "Zionist" in front of blood libels and conspiratorial ravings. So it's not that Jews are bloodsuckers. It's that Zionist Jews are bloodsuckers. It's not that Jews are undermining the Western financial system. It's that Zionist Jews are undermining the Western financial system.

But as long as you remember that you can publish the most vulgar anti-Semitic incitement across the full spectrum of Venezuelan state-owned media.

The Obama administration on Chavez's dictator for life referendum: "we congratulate the civic and participatory spirit of the millions of Venezuelans who exercised their democratic right to vote... fully consistent with the democratic process." (h/t: Ziva Sahl)

References and previously after the jump...