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Chavez’s Cheap Oil and Anti-Semitism
By Ana Julia Jatar on 7 Feb, 2009
On Jan 7 Joseph Kennedy chairman of Citizens Energy, a nonprofit organization that administers the Venezuelan home heating oil program for the poor households in Massachusetts, announced the continuation of the program and said that he was "personally aware of President Chavez's genuine concern for the most vulnerable, regardless of where they may live." He also said that this was "a clear, direct message ... of [Chavez's] desire to strengthen relations between his country and the United States."Three weeks later, Friday January 30th 2009, fifteen heavily armed men broke in and desecrated one of the oldest Synagogues in Venezuela. During a five hour raid in Shabbat, Torah scrolls were damaged, prayer books ripped apart and anti-Semitic graffiti like “death to all” and “Jews get out” sprayed on the walls. For the first time since the Jews began living in Venezuela two hundred years ago, this community feels threatened and unprotected. To make things worse, the perpetrators took with them computers with the private data, names, addresses and financial information of Venezuelan Jews. One week later, the perpetrators of these acts have not been found. Some fear they will never be. more »
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