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Today, Venezuela is close partners with Iran, working together on commercial activities with dual-use military purposes. Venezuela recently signed a 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran focused on collaboration in the fields of energy, finance, and defense. One motivation for the partnership is the US sanctions applied to both countries, which have severely weakened both economies.
“Iran has also engaged in a systematic long-term approach to build and sustain a strategic presence in Latin America, doubling its embassies in the region in just a decade and establishing lines of credit with a half-dozen countries,” Melamed said. “Therefore, some regional security analysts fear Colombia could fall under the sphere of influence of this Axis of Resistance promoted by Iran through coming bilateral agreements regarding hydrocarbons, infrastructure, communications, and security agendas.”
Anti-Israel sentiment can be traced to 1970s
Klajman traced Latin American antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment back to the 1970s. “During the ’70s, in Latin America, there was also a big fight for civil rights, and then, Jews were alienated even if they supported other minorities,” she said. “Regardless of how progressive a Jew could be, if the Jew was a Zionist, anything he says is invalid. This is clearly what is happening now, as left-leaning Jews are segregated from bringing a nuanced understanding of the conflict in the Middle East.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made similarly inflammatory comments comparing Israel to Nazi Germany in February of last year. Klajman said left-leaning leaders like Lula and Petro tend to be more critical of Israel, while right-leaning leaders tend to be more supportive.
“Even if antisemitism exists at the extremes of the political spectrum, both on the left and on the right, today, the world today is ready to accept antisemitism from the left but not from the right,” she said. “If a right-leaning president were to say what Colombia’s president said, he would be execrated as a Nazi, and everyone would condemn it.”
She said that left-wing antisemitism often hides under the guise of opposition to the State of Israel. “These leaders are antisemitic in reality, saying that the Jews are the only nation that should not have its own country and ignoring the fact that Jewish sovereignty existed in that region multiple times,” she said. “Such a narrative adopted by left-leaning leaders doesn’t speak of changes that are a part of the life of every country. It doesn’t speak of making improvements. It simply talks about Israel not having the right to exist or defend itself.”
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