29.01.2011                     24.Shevat, 5771

Venezuela:

The need to transcend victimization

It is important to transcend the idea of victimization of Venezuelan Jews and transform their plight into part of the struggle for democracy of the people of this generous country.

Today, as international Jewish organizations follow the situation of Venezuela’s Jews, it is important to place the hardship they are encountering in the context of the country’s situation as a whole. The anti-democratic actions of the government of President Hugo Chavez − of which verbal and occasionally physical assaults on Jews are but one example − are creating suffering for many other people outside the Jewish community….