Israel and Palestine have become the symbolic territory for the political war between Latin America’s far right and parts of the left. But the left’s anti-Zionism has taken a conspiratorial and totalizing turn which owes much to right-wing antisemitism
Like much of the world, I woke up on January 3 to the dramatic news of a U.S. operation in Venezuela to abduct its president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife. Very soon after, I braced myself for the accusations of Zionist interference that would inevitably follow.