ANTISEMITISM IN VENEZUELA

B'nai B'rith has spoken out against the reprehensible remarks made on Venezuelan state television on October 26, in which a guest denied the Holocaust and repudiated Zionism. On the show "Contragolpe" which in English is "Counter-Strike", host Vanessa Davies interviewed Argentine professor Saad Chedid, who was reportedly in Venezuela to give a lecture titled "Philosophic and Semantic Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." 
 While giving a preview of his lecture, Chedid stated among other things that Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, was a "sick and paranoid person," even implying that there was close collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews to create the "implanted" state of Israel.