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Postcard from Venezuela Sammy Eppel* Hi, everyone. Sammy Eppel here. The weather is great! Let me tell you a little about how it is to be a Venezuelan Jew. First, the history. The presence of Latin American Jews begins with the colonial period, and as the region developed so did their numbers. Some Jews even participated in the independence movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. In my country, Venezuela, Mordechai Ricardo, a Jew in the Dutch island of Curacao, took care of the family of Simon Bolivar during a period of exile. With time, Latin America became the home of almost a million Jews that in general got a friendly welcome and were able to establish communities and contribute to the betterment of their respective countries. The Latin American people that came out of the mixing of the native population, black slaves, and white immigration are known for their tolerance and respect and are referred to as the “Cosmic Race.” Under such circumstances, antisemitism was minimal. One noted difference could be Argentina, which is more of a European-type country that imported some of the prejudices of that area. The Latin American Jews that have lived for generations in their respective countries are so well integrated that a Jew from Mexico considers himself totally and first of all as Mexican—and the same goes for the other countries of the continent. Having said that, it would seem incongruous that in September 2006, at the Tel Aviv University conference in Budapest, I declared that “for the first time in recent history there is government-sponsored antisemitism in a Western country” in reference to the new political antisemitism that has risen in Venezuela. The hundreds of antisemitic acts sponsored by the regime of Húgo Chávez have been duly presented in many international conferences. One such event took place on January 20, 2009, with the publication in official principal Web sites of a blueprint for attacking the Jews in Venezuela. It was written by Emilio Silva Chapellin, a professor at Venezuelan Bolivarian University and a prominent member of Chavez’s PSUV party. In it, he calls for action—and the Caracas Synagogue was desecrated ten days later (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1L34I7TFws). Incredibly, the professor was not called by any investigation team and instead was treated as a hero of the revolution and paraded as such in government radio and TV media. But this is even more alarming. On April 4, 2011, the director of a Venezuelan government-owned radio station, Cristina Gonzalez, dedicated almost all her time on the government’s radio station, to the reading of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. She asserted that the contents of the book 179
180 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 3:179 were approved by the Zionist Congress of 1897 in Basel, and concluded with the statement that all past and present ills are attributed to the “world Jewish conspiracy.” If you add the Muslim embracing of Chávez and the influence of petro dollars, we obviously have a situation of concern for the future of Latin American Jews. P.S. Come visit! The weather is great! *Sammy Eppel (www.eppel.net) is a Venezuela-based journalist who tracks government-sponsored antisemitism. Eppel was a correspondent for World Press Review magazine and worldpress.org, and columnist for El Universal. He is the founder and president of Madre Maria Luisa Casar (www.madreluisa.org), a member of Venezuelan Jewish community (CAIV), and director of DDHH of B’nai B’rith Venezuela.
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