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Concern, criticism follow Venezuelan synagogue attack
By Marcy Oster ยท February 1, 2009
(JTA) -- International Jewish groups expressed concern after an attack on a Caracas synagogue and blamed Hugo Chavez for creating an atmosphere of hate in Venezuela.
Up to 15 people attacked the Tiferet Israel Sephardic synagogue late Friday night, throwing Torah scrolls on the floor and damaging some, according to reports. They also painted epithets such as "death to the Jews" on the synagogue's walls.
The synagogue's guard had been held at gunpoint and was found on the floor of the building by members on Saturday morning, the Jerusalem Post reported.
It is not the first such attack on Jewish institutions in the country, which broke off diplomatic relations with Israel over the Gaza military operation, according to The New York Times. In response, Israel expelled the Venezuelan envoy and his embassy staff last week.
The same synagogue was vandalized early last month. The Israeli embassy was also vandalized. A Jewish community center was raided in 2007 in a search for illegal weapons. None were found.
The government of President Hugo Chavez decried the attack, the Times reported.
Chavez and local media have been increasingly critical of Israel in the past week.
"The total disrespect of a Jewish house of worship reflects the escalating climate of hostility towards Jews in Venezuela," said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee.
Harris also said, "There are strong indications that what we are witnessing is a state-sponsored campaign of anti-Semitic persecution, spurred by both Venezuela's alliance with the Iranian regime and the surge of anti-Israel rhetoric during the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas."
Harris called on the international community to declare its solidarity with Venezuela's Jewish community.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center also blamed Chavez's demonization of Israel and the Jewish community as the catalyst for the synagogue attack and called on world leaders to denounce it.
"This was no mere hate crime from the margins of society, but a reflection of President Chavez's campaign to demonize Israel and her supporters,"said Rabbis Marvin Hier, the center's founder and dean, and Abraham Cooper, its associate dean, in a statement. "It is frightening to watch the inevitable consequences of Iran's chief ally in the Americas promotion of hatred of the Jewish people escalate into an attack, more reminiscent of Nazi Germany in 1938, than a democracy in 2009. The fact that the members of this synagogue stayed away from services this Friday night out of fear that the anti-Israel campaign had generated says it all."
B'nai B'rith International has asked the U.S. State Department to investigate the attack.
"This has got to stop," said B'nai B'rith Executive Vice President Daniel Mariaschin. "It is unacceptable for a government to incite hatred. Chavez has cultivated an environment where his followers feel comfortable threatening Jews."
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called on Chavez to protect his country's Jewish community.
"Sadly, this is not a random event in Venezuela; it is directly related to the atmosphere of anti-Jewish intimidation promoted by President Chavez and his government apparatus," Foxman said.
Chavez, Foxman said, "must ensure that his government quickly brings the perpetrators to justice."
Source: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/01/1002660/concern-criticism-follow-venezuelan-synagogue-attack
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I'm horrified to read this. The parallel to Kristallnacht is too obvious and too frightening. How, instead of talking, can we actually get proactive and help these Venezuelan Jews? These synagogues need a police force of their own to defend themselves. Jews around the world need to start defending themselves and their property and we need to get money and armaments to the them. We can't let this continue. How do we do this? To sit back and do nothing is a crime. It would be akin to reading about what was happening in Germany and doing nothing.
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Was Venezuela one of the countries that Nazis fled to?
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I'm horrified to read this. The parallel to Kristallnacht is too obvious and too frightening. How, instead of talking, can we actually get proactive and help these Venezuelan Jews? These synagogues need a police force of their own to defend themselves. Jews around the world need to start defending themselves and their property and we need to get money and armaments to the them. We can't let this continue. How do we do this? To sit back and do nothing is a crime. It would be akin to reading about what was happening in Germany and doing nothing.
I think it is because of Obama.
Look all the Jewhaters come now out of the cover.
Erdogan in Turkey, the spanish Bolschewists, Hugo Chavez etc.
They think now they can do whatever they want. :o
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Was Venezuela one of the countries that Nazis fled to?
Absolutely. I may be wrong, but I think that's why Jew are there.
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LET'S HAVE NO MISUNDERSTANDINGS HERE...
THESE MARXIST GOONS ARE ACTING UNDER THE DIRECT ORDERS OF THEIR RED-SKINNED CASTROITE NAZI HUGO CHAVEZ.
ALL OF THE 'EXPRESSIONS OF CONCERN' AND 'CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY' FROM THE INTERNATIONALIST KIKE ESTABLISHMENT, QUOTED IN Pheasant's POSTING, ARE CLASSICAL "KIKISMS" (thanks, CBP, for the term), WHICH SERVE ONLY TO PROVE THE INSANITY AND COWARDICE OF THESE ESTABLISHMENT KIKES, WHO ARE MORE UPSET AT THE THOUGHT OF TAKING DIRECT ACTION "TO FIX THE PROBLEM", THEN THEY ARE UPSET AT THE ACTUAL NAZI JEW-HATERS THEMSELVES...THESE ARE OUR 'SO-CALLED' "JEWISH LEADERS"!...THESE WHO GROVEL AND KOWTOW IN HOPES FOR 'FAVORABLE WORLD OPINION'...BEGGING THE GENTILE WORLD TO MAKE 'DIPLOMATIC STATEMENTS OF PROTEST'.
THEIR KAPO BABBLING SERVES ONLY TO ENSURE INCREASED TERRORIST ATTACKS AND MASSACRES AGAINST US; ENBOLDENING THE NAZI BOLSHEVIST SCUM NOW IN PLACE IN VENEZUELA, CUBA, BOLIVIA, COLUMBIA, AND THE IN REST OF "OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH".
THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER TO THE CRIMINALITY OF THESE RETARDED COCA-CHEWING NAZIS AND THEIR IRANIAN SPONSORS......IMMEDIATE ANNIHILATION!
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Was Venezuela one of the countries that Nazis fled to?
No, mainly Argentina.
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I'm horrified to read this. The parallel to Kristallnacht is too obvious and too frightening. How, instead of talking, can we actually get proactive and help these Venezuelan Jews? These synagogues need a police force of their own to defend themselves. Jews around the world need to start defending themselves and their property and we need to get money and armaments to the them. We can't let this continue. How do we do this? To sit back and do nothing is a crime. It would be akin to reading about what was happening in Germany and doing nothing.
I think it is because of Obama.
Look all the Jewhaters come now out of the cover.
Erdogan in Turkey, the spanish Bolschewists, Hugo Chavez etc.
They think now they can do whatever they want. :o
You're right. It has to do with Obama, for one. And, for two, it has to do with the Jew hating world press. They foster and shape world opinion in a big way. Their reporting only goes one way -- and, that is, they only show Jews defending themselves. They turn the victims into the criminals. And, now, with Obama as President, things will get much, much worse for the Israeli's. For the Israeli's not to have even a modicum of backing in the White House is a tragic thing.
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LET'S HAVE NO MISUNDERSTANDINGS HERE...
THESE MARXIST GOONS ARE ACTING UNDER THE DIRECT ORDERS OF THEIR RED-SKINNED CASTROITE NAZI HUGO CHAVEZ.
ALL OF THE 'EXPRESSIONS OF CONCERN' AND 'CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY' FROM THE INTERNATIONALIST KIKE ESTABLISHMENT, QUOTED IN Pheasant's POSTING, ARE CLASSICAL "KIKISMS" (thanks, CBP, for the term), WHICH SERVE ONLY TO PROVE THE INSANITY AND COWARDICE OF THESE ESTABLISHMENT KIKES, WHO ARE MORE UPSET AT THE THOUGHT OF TAKING DIRECT ACTION "TO FIX THE PROBLEM", THEN THEY ARE UPSET AT THE ACTUAL NAZI JEW-HATERS THEMSELVES...THESE ARE OUR 'SO-CALLED' "JEWISH LEADERS"!...THESE WHO GROVEL AND KOWTOW IN HOPES FOR 'FAVORABLE WORLD OPINION'...BEGGING THE GENTILE WORLD TO MAKE 'DIPLOMATIC STATEMENTS OF PROTEST'.
THEIR KAPO BABBLING SERVES ONLY TO ENSURE INCREASED TERRORIST ATTACKS AND MASSACRES AGAINST US; ENBOLDENING THE NAZI BOLSHEVIST SCUM NOW IN PLACE IN VENEZUELA, CUBA, BOLIVIA, COLUMBIA, AND THE IN REST OF "OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH".
THERE IS ONLY ONE ANSWER TO THE CRIMINALITY OF THESE RETARDED COCA-CHEWING NAZIS AND THEIR IRANIAN SPONSORS......IMMEDIATE ANNIHILATION!
Synagogue desecrated in Venezuela http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7863356.stm
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Was Venezuela one of the countries that Nazis fled to?
Absolutely. I may be wrong, but I think that's why Jew are there.
why would jews be there if that's where nazis fled to?
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Was Venezuela one of the countries that Nazis fled to?
Absolutely. I may be wrong, but I think that's why Jew are there.
why would jews be there if that's where nazis fled to?
I think he has misunderstood the question. English is not his mother language.
He meant, that Jews fled there from the Nazi devils.
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No, mainly Argentina.
Also in Brazil and Paraguay, possibly some others.
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No, mainly Argentina.
Also in Brazil and Paraguay, possibly some others.
Yes. This is a newer and different issue of anti-semitism. Chavez, Morales and all the socialist presidents of South America are part of the socialist international so when the international socialist movement attacks Israel, all socialists are lock, step and barrel with them. Chavez had some ministers who said rabbis were influencing the anti-Chavez protests which is classic Stalinism. If the rabbis were doing this, they should be given an award for righteousness and sanity! Also, Chavez made an insane appearance on Al Jazeera saying he was with the Arab and Muslim people.
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I am not wondering, many nazi Germans moved to South America, especially to Argentine. >:(
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Here's the Chavev Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bR0G3eAF4
and some anti-semitism by a Chavez minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWGA510zbE
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Jews worldwide are under much greater threat with leftists in power than right wing conservatives. Left-wing governments foster an environment of hate against all that is decent and moral, and the obvious targets of that hatred are Jews.
ALL JEWS BELONG IN ISRAEL. HA SHEM HAS CALLED HIS FLOCK HOME AND THOSE WHO WON'T GO WILLINGLY WILL DIE IN THE EXILE.
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Here's the Chavev Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bR0G3eAF4
and some anti-semitism by a Chavez minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWGA510zbE
This Chavez minister is a real copy of Goebbels.
No wonder, that his gofers going after the Jews there. :o
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Chavez looks like a pineapple he'll be finished very soon.No Nazis didn't go to to Venezuela maybe a couple but not like Argentina,Brazil or Paraguay.This is Chavez and mospig inspired
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Chavez looks like a pineapple he'll be finished very soon.No Nazis didn't go to to Venezuela maybe a couple but not like Argentina,Brazil or Paraguay.This is Chavez and mospig inspired
I think you are right. They need no advisers in order to do evil things. They do it on their own.
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Here's the Chavev Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bR0G3eAF4
and some anti-semitism by a Chavez minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWGA510zbE
This Chavez minister is a real copy of Goebbels.
No wonder, that his gofers going after the Jews there. :o
He is although he has an insane streak. Doesn't he have a three hour tv show every day where he rants about his ideas? He's a danger to the region and the world.
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Chavez looks like a pineapple he'll be finished very soon.No Nazis didn't go to to Venezuela maybe a couple but not like Argentina,Brazil or Paraguay.This is Chavez and mospig inspired
:::D
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Chavez is a communist toe tapping queer who kisses Muzlimes
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This is what I don'y understand. There have been very few Jews in Venezuela. Whence such virulent anti-semitism? This just goes to prove wrong all those people who say that Jews bring hatred upon themselves. If there are so few Jews in a country that they could not be felt, why would there be anti-semitism. In Sweden there is 20000 Jews, in Norway even fewer. But you see anti-semitic remarks if you read the net. Why would people be anti-semitic if they have no contact with the Jews. Let's say for the sake of the argument that Jews are evil and invite hatred. But how would you know if you never meet them? This just shows once again the Satanic nature of anti-semitism. And I don't use the word "Satanic" metaphorically.
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This is what I don'y understand. There have been very few Jews in Venezuela. Whence such virulent anti-semitism? This just goes to prove wrong all those people who say that Jews bring hatred upon themselves. If there are so few Jews in a country that they could not be felt, why would there be anti-semitism. In Sweden there is 20000 Jews, in Norway even fewer. But you see anti-semitic remarks if you read the net. Why would people be anti-semitic if they have no contact with the Jews. Let's say for the sake of the argument that Jews are evil and invite hatred. But how would you know if you never meet them? This just shows once again the Satanic nature of anti-semitism. And I don't use the word "Satanic" metaphorically.
It's easy for people to blame all their problems on the Jews. Chavez social experiments are becoming a bigger and bigger disaster but he gets support from the slums so it really will take a wakeup call for them to vote him out. It's easy for dumb people from the slums to blame the Jews instead of themselves for voting for Chavez or Morales. Some people replace their hatred of the Jews with George Bush; he's responsible from everything from the weather to the economy.
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Here's the Chavev Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bR0G3eAF4
and some anti-semitism by a Chavez minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWGA510zbE
I have listened to the evil gofer of Chavez. This is pure Nazi agitation. >:(
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I think it is because of Obama.
Look all the Jewhaters come now out of the cover.
Erdogan in Turkey, the spanish Bolschewists, Hugo Chavez etc.
They think now they can do whatever they want. :o
I'm afraid that's probably right.
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Here's the Chavev Al Jazeera interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bR0G3eAF4
and some anti-semitism by a Chavez minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWGA510zbE
I have listened to the evil gofer of Chavez. This is pure Nazi agitation. >:(
Yes. They are trying to start a pogrom.
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Its really sad, as these kind of things happen in Israel aswell, just like what happened in my town,
when Neo Nazi immigrants sprayed swastikas on Torah scrolls and on the synagogue's floor.
The Jews all over the world will always be in danger, everyday we hear about anti semitic attacks on jews in every country around the world.
Thats why we should bring them all here to Israel and have a jewish majority against those smelly dogs-arabs.