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Venezuela's Chavez condemned for 'antiSemitic' statements



AFP
BUENOS AIRES
Petroleumworld.com 01 11 06
The Simon Wiesenthal center strongly condemned what it branded "anti-Semitic" statements by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and demanded a public apology in a statement obtained Monday by AFP.

The Jewish human rights organization, whose Latin American headquarters is based in Argentina, assailed Chavez's December 24 statement that Jews are "descendants of those who crucified the Christ."

"The world belongs to everyone, but it seems that minorities, descendants of those who crucified the Christ, have taken all the world's wealth," Chavez said, according to the center's statement.

In a letter of protest addressed to Chavez, the Wiesenthal Center took issue with what it said were the "two central arguments of anti-Semitism" -- that Jews killed Jesus Christ and that Jews covet wealth.

AFP 01/10/06

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