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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsActing Venezuelan President falls into anti-Semitic tropes, blames "Zionists" for Maduro's capture
Speaking in a televised address alongside senior figures from Maduros inner circle, Rodríguez blamed the Zionists for the events surrounding his arrest, echoing familiar rhetoric long used by Venezuelas Chavista leadership to fault Israel and its allies for international pressure on the regime.
The attack on Venezuela has an undoubtedly Zionist character, Rodríguez declared, offering no evidence to support the claim. She reiterated that Nicolás Maduro is the only president of Venezuela, despite his transfer to U.S. custody and a ruling by Venezuelas constitutional court appointing her interim president during his absence.
Venezuelas leadership has repeatedly invoked Israel and Zionism during past crises.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2494389/venezuelan-acting-president-blames-zionists-for-maduros-capture.html]
Of course, blame the Jews! Shocking!
No words.
newdeal2
(4,794 posts)Third times a charm!
LakeVermilion
(1,501 posts)just sayin'
The Revolution
(880 posts)?
sarisataka
(22,237 posts)the Jews are behind it?
mcar
(45,675 posts)DavidDvorkin
(20,493 posts)Just whistling.
Igel
(37,369 posts)Not that Russia hasn't flirted with some pretty open anti-Semitism (I mean, that's where a lot of the anti-Israel rhetoric came from).
Solly Mack
(96,359 posts)Tetrachloride
(9,384 posts)tritsofme
(19,797 posts)Uh-huh. Not going to happen.
Tetrachloride
(9,384 posts)We know the media can only do so many soundbites. One soundbite cancels out others.
In a large family or the Congress, somethings get the headlines and others are pushed off.
I contend that money (oil) and Epstein are the top things that Trump wants pushed off the media and will use any advantage to achieve that. Such as Gaza hotels, Ukraine peace deals, gender phobia, ICE, any and every -ism.
Turbineguy
(39,845 posts)PCIntern
(27,976 posts)Look, if an anti-Semite has bowel movement issues, its a Zionist conspiracy
Norrrm
(4,019 posts)sakabatou
(45,776 posts)Behind the Aegis
(55,927 posts)As well as those who "sing" another familiar song, "ignore the anti-Semitism, because other things".
gAI Obsession
(29 posts)Grasping at straws.
DavidDvorkin
(20,493 posts)Melon
(1,093 posts)WarGamer
(18,255 posts)gulliver
(13,719 posts)It's old classic "pop politics" tapes at this point. The Antisemitic sentiment rests on less than nothing, but its familiarity in the world's mob political vocabulary makes it useful for calumny against Western Civilization and Capitalism.
The Venezuelan veep is probably well aware of the fact that she can't say, "We must keep our socialist system!" She knows that Maduro was voted out by the Venezuelan people, and the socialist system has ruined people's economic lives. If she said the U.S. was engaging in imperialism to enforce Venezuelan democracy and return it to a market economy, she knows the people in Venezuela would say, "sounds good!"
So, of course, she goes into the gutter and uses antisemitism.
EdmondDantes_
(1,384 posts)The leadership of Venezuela also sucks. What an utterly nonsensical claim on her part.
Boo1
(146 posts)Saw one certain poster here saying much the same and nobody calling them out on it.