Israel

Over the weekend, Venezuela’s anti-Chavez minority confirmed reports that one of their own recently met with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and promised to re-establish ties with Israel if the opposition is somehow successful in this year’s presidential election. 

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The Venezuelan Government released an official communication yesterday denouncing accusations made against Venezuela by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon as “slanderous” and “abusive”.

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“The only weapon my son had was his video camera,” said the Cristina Soler, mother of David Segarra, a Spanish Telesur journalist and resident of Venezuela, who was detained early this morning by Israeli marines as they attacked the fleet of aid ships heading towards the Gaza Strip in Palestine. The Venezuelan government also officially condemned the attack, calling it an “action of war against unarmed civilians”.

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In Caracas on Wednesday, Venezuela and Iran inaugurated a new binational development fund, signed accords that aim to boost Venezuela’s agricultural and industrial production, and called Israel’s recent declarations about Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran “a threat.”

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The Venezuelan Foreign Relations Ministry expressed its “repudiation” of remarks made on Tuesday by Israeli Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Dani Ayalon, who said Venezuela had become “a base for the Iranian advance on the American continent.”

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The U.S. press tends to portray left-leaning Latin American governments as hotbeds of anti-Semitism. In the case of Venezuela, this storyline has been promoted in three key ways: (1) attributing anti-Semitic acts or statements by private citizens to the government, (2) conflating legitimate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism, and (3) relying on press statements by U.S.-based Jewish organizations at the expense of Venezuelan Jewish organizations.

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A supposedly secret report by the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, which accuses the Bolivian and Venezuelan governments of selling uranium to Iran for its nuclear program, has been leaked to Associated Press. Venezuela has responded by reiterating its support for all cooperation agreements it has with Iran and by criticizing media's constant demonization of its government.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said Israel’s expulsion of Venezuela’s representative to Israel, Roland Betancourt, on Wednesday was an “honor,” and accused the Israeli government of committing genocide against Palestinians.

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