A Venezuelan Jewish leader said this week that anti-Semitism in Latin America has significantly increased in recent years.

Židovski lider iz Venezuele je izjavio,  ovog tjedna,  da se antisemitizam u Latinskoj Amertici značajno povećao posljednjih godina.

“The problem is that there is big damage that has been done in the last 12, 10 years,” he said. “I was born in Venezuela and I lived there all my life and I never felt anti-Semitism from anybody… we were never discriminated and all of a sudden in 2004, it explodes,” Sammy Eppel, the director of the Commission for Human Rights at B’nai B’rith Venezuela, said during a special conference held at the United Nations in honour of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Problem je da je učinjena velika šteta u zadnjih desetak godina,   rekao je Sammy Eppel (direktor Komisije za ljudska prava i B'nei B'rith Venezuele) prilikom Dana sjećanja na Holokaust: "Ja sam rođen u Venezueli i tamo stalno živim i  ranije nisam osjećao antisemitizam, mi nismo nikada bili diskriminirani sve do njegove iznenadne eksplozije u 2004. godini. U 2006. smo otvorili ured sa pet stručnjaka  za monitoring antisemitizma  u vladi i medijima.  Sada možete svuda naći "Protokole mudraca" kojih ranije nije bilo i oni su službena literatura u arapskim školama- kada dođu u Latinsku Ameriku donesu ih sa sobom.

“Why would a politician be demonised or be deemed not fit for public office for the fact of being Jewish? That’s anti-Semitism. That’s discrimination,” said Eppel, who is also a political analyst and journalist. ..

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