| Summary: | The U.S. press has a tendency to portray left-leaning Latin American governments as anti-Semitic. In the case of Venezuela, where the government has never made any overtly anti-Semitic public statements, the accusation of anti-Semitism has been promoted in three key ways: attributing anti-Semitic acts or statements by private citizens to the government; conflating legitimate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism; and relying on press statements by U.S.-based Jewish organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League or the Simon Wiesenthal Center, often at the expense of Venezuelan Jewish organizations, which regularly complain that their views are misrepresented by such groups.
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