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anti-Semitism in Venezuela

A woman holds Israeli and Venezuelan flags in front of the Venezuelan consulate in Miami to show solidarity with the Venezuelan Jewish community after an attack on a Caracas synagogue, February 13, 2009. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images via JTA)
January 9, 2026, 6:58 pm
Relieved to see Maduro deposed, can Venezuela’s Jewish diaspora imagine returning?
An estimated 20,000 Venezuelan Jews fled state-fueled antisemitism during the Chavez era, leaving just 4,000 behind. They’re hesitating to pick up the pieces for now
By Larry Luxner
Pro-government armed civilians monitor shoppers lining up outside a supermarket in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, January 4, 2026. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
January 5, 2026, 1:29 am
After Maduro ouster, Venezuela’s embattled Jews watch cautiously from sidelines
Decades of repression from pro-Iran, anti-Zionist regime leave community wary of celebrating US raid, with deposed leader’s deputy now in charge, but exiles hope for regime change
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: People look at a portion of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty images via AFP)
October 18, 2021, 3:18 am
Venezuela’s tight-knit Jewish community is still mourning its Surfside victims
After the number of Jews dwindled to roughly 6,000 from a peak of 25,000 in the ’90s, denomination and ethnicity are not dividing lines and most people know each other by name
By Orge Castellano
Venezuelan actress and model Catherine Fulop gives an interview on November 12, 2018 (Screen grab via YouTube)
May 6, 2019, 9:53 am
Venezuelan actress compares President Maduro’s supporters to kapos
After outcry, Catherine Fulop apologizes for saying Jews were ‘the fierce torturers of their own people’ in interview on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By JTA
Students argue with police officers during a rally in support of opposition leader Juan Guaido and against Nicolas Maduro at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, May 2, 2019. (Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images/via JTA)
May 5, 2019, 5:25 am
How Venezuela’s remaining Jews are hanging on amid the crisis
From a height of 25,000 members in the 1990s, the generations-old Jewish community is down to about 6,000 as the country’s political and economic situation reaches a boiling point
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
May 1, 2019, 2:15 pm
Report: Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing highest number of Jews in decades
Tel Aviv University researchers say governments on 3 continents promoted anti-Semitism in 2018, single out officials in Venezuela, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine
By Agencies
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