The Wall Street Journal ran its semi-annual "Venezuela is anti-Semitic" column yesterday, reviving, as always, the long ago de-bunked quote from Chavez calling Jews "christ killers." And as always, we'll go ahead and provide the link to what he really said. It's a game we play.
This time deputy editorial page editor Melanie Kirkpatrick comes with all kinds of devastating evidence that Chavez is just like Hitler, because:
• A synagogue got robbed ,Of course, nothing here is attributalbe to the Venezuelan government--and in the case of the robbery, they quickly denounced and captured and prosecuted the culprits--but you just throw in a (fabricated) quote from Chavez and you have a meme, just like with Otto Reich's fake anti-Semitic Nicaraguans in the 80s.
• A professor published an ugly anti-Semitic article, "online," and
• The Bush State Department said so.
Anti-Semitism is a nasty virus, which is why we need to stamp it out wherever it rears its head. But as the American Jewish Congress council director David Twersky said the last time this Venezuela BS was aired, "I don't think we should raise the flag of antisemitism when it doesn't belong." True dat.
Comments (5)
Wow. Am I the only one that noticed the irony in the title to the WSJ piece, "The Politics of Intimidation." Curious thing, this intimidation.
Posted by rigo23
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May 3, 2009 9:42 AM
Posted on May 3, 2009 09:42
If the Jewish people wanted to make those claims, certainly they are capable of writing their own opinion piece.
When has this opinion writer been to Vz to note such anti-semetism?
Posted by Bosque
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May 2, 2009 8:36 PM
Posted on May 2, 2009 20:36
I dunno about you, but when I take THAT much artistic licence, I usually label the end result "Fiction".
Posted by QueenBina
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May 2, 2009 8:22 PM
Posted on May 2, 2009 20:22
Doesn't the Vzlan govt. have a legal option when things like this appear? I mean, some people only understand force. (Although I guess because it's an opinion piece, there's supposed to be more "artistic license")
Posted by Utpal
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May 2, 2009 6:29 PM
Posted on May 2, 2009 18:29
FIRST!
I LIKE PIE!
VIVA JACKSON DIEHL!
Posted by otto
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May 2, 2009 6:09 PM
Posted on May 2, 2009 18:09