A Perilous Hanukkah with Hugo-Venezuela's socialist strongman demonizes the Jews.

alexbeech.blogspot.com | Frontpagemagazine ^ | December 28, 2005 | Alex Beech

[rmlew]

Actually, this kind of communist anti-Semitism is nothing new.
1. Check out On the Jewish Question by Marx. Marx calls for the end of Jewishness (bougeouis hucksterism and legalism) as the solution.
2. This is not all that different that the anti-Semitism fomented by communists after 1950.

[Mike Darancette]

This is not all that different that the anti-Semitism fomented by communists after 1950.

I think that this was just triggered by the paranoid delusions of Stalin and his "Doctor's Plot". Not as a matter of communist doctrine which hated all religions equally.

In the early days of the party it was said, "not all Jews are Bolsheviks, but most Bolsheviks are Jews".

[Democratshavenobrains]

All the media has to do is broadcast Chavez saying these anti-semitic things. WHY DON'T THEY? God knows they endlessly harp on everything Republicans say if it is even the slightest bit embarrassing.

[Clemenza]

Any student of history knows that Jews were largely purged from the leadership of the CPUSSR because so many backed Trotsky. Most were either killed or went into exile and joined the Fourth International (which included Dwight McDonald and James Burnham among its most noteworthy gentile members).

Fidel Castro's "anti-Zionist" campaigns beginning in the 1960s drove nearly all of the Cuban Jews to South Florida or other Latin American nations(Cuba having the largest Jewish population on a per capita basis between Argentina and the United States). The anti-semitism of the Hungarian CP following 1956 (remember that the reformer Nagy was Jewish) and that of Gomulka in Poland was partially driven by the rise of Israel but largely reflected indigenous and ideological anti-semitism as well.

As for Marxists with Israel itself, they were a factor during the period of British control, particularly in the Kibbutzim. Such folks saw Israel as eventually becoming part of the world proletariat. They were vastly outnumbered by the Social Zionists, however, and lost influence following the Soviet Union's decision to pursue a pro-Arab "nationalist" foreign policy in the 1950s.