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Yesterday, Spain’s and Venezuela’s foreign ministers made an official visit to Caracas’s Tiferet Israel Synagogue to condemn the anti-Semitic attack perpetrated on it in January. That incident featured...
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• The New York Times’s lead editorial commends President Obama’s call for a settlement freeze, but finds “little sign” of progress and suggests explaining to Israelis “why freezing settlements and...
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Is Hezbollah operating in Venezuela? That’s what Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed to Colombian newspaper El Tiempo today, as he reached the tail-end of his 10-day tour of South...
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• Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz wants solely Hebrew place-names—Yerushalayim, Natzrat (Nazareth), Kesariya (Caeserea)—to appear on road signs, rather than the current Hebrew, Arabic, and...
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Wolf-Dieter Vogel has a strongly argued essay up at the online magazine Qantara about the nexus between Islamism and the authoritarian left, best embodied by Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution. He...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez fondess for Iranian-style anti-Semitism is irrefutable (see especially here and here). Now it seems his tendency has been taken up in Honduras by supporters of that...
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The Jews of Bogotá, Colombia, have established a special committee to receive Jews arriving from Venezuela, mainly because so many Venezuelan Jews are deciding to do just that: the anti-Semitic climate...
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While incidents of anti-Semitism have cropped up in Venezuela, and while some have argued that President Hugo Chávez deliberately cultivates an anti-Semitic atmosphere, B’nai B’rith International draws...
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The New York Times reported yesterday that Hugo Chávez’s regime encourages street artists to paint graffiti that jibes with official ideology—specifically, anti-Americanism. One mural in the capital...
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Great, great report below from HDNet about the Venezuela government’s affirmative desire to make life difficult for the several thousand Jews who live there. You see the ransacked Tiferet Israel...
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By now, you’ve read contributing editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s dispatches from Cuba, where he was hosted by Fidel Castro (and if you haven’t, my God, what are you waiting for?). While the whole thing is...
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Why Obama May Strike Iran's Nuclear Program
This was likely the week that Iran began enriching uranium at a second facility, this one deep in a mountain bunker surrounded by anti-aircraft guns. It’s the week after Iran threatened to close the...
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Half of Venezuela's Jewish Community Fled Under Chávez. Will the Other Half...
Hillo Ostfeld discusses his Sept. 16, 2010, meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.(All photos Matthew Fishbane.) Continue reading "Half of Venezuela's Jewish Community Fled Under Chávez. Will...
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The once-thriving Caracas Jewish community is fading under Chávez
The Jewish community in Caracas has long been lively, prosperous, tight-knit, and devoted to the country that accepted so many of them as refugees during and after World War II. At its height, it...
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Matthew Fishbane looks at Venezuela's dwindling Jewish community
Yesterday’s New York Times brought word that the orange-hued, monomaniacal leader of Venezuela had, after months of limited appearances ascribed to cancer treatments, “gotten his swagger back” (though...
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Sundown: George Clooney to Rescue Nazi-Looted Art in Film
• George Clooney has optioned Robert Edsel’s book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, and is said to be starring in the film. [JTA] • New Jersey...
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Venezuela's Chávez Stirs Anti-Semitism Against (Non-Jewish) Rival Capriles
This past weekend, 2.9 million Venezuelans went to the polls to choose a candidate to oppose incumbent (of 12 years) President Hugo Chávez in this October’s general election. The winner of the primary...
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Israeli Energy Could Wean Europe Off Russian Dependence
• Is Israel the answer to Europe’s desire to wean itself off of Russian energy dependency? [FP Oil and Glory] • Aluf Benn argues that the national-unity coalition gives Prime Minister Netanyahu more...
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How Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is Using Anti-Semitism to Maintain His...
Four days ago, Henrique Capriles, the youthful governor of Miranda state in Venezuela, launched his campaign to rid the country of Hugo Chávez at the presidential election scheduled for October this...
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What Venezuela's Elections Means for Its Fleeing Jewish Population
In a stunning piece written earlier this year, our own Matthew Fishbane chronicled the plight of Venezuela’s Jews, half of whom have fled the country to avoid persecution by President Hugo Chávez....
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