Incredible History of Palestinians in Chile

Incredible History of Palestinians in Chile

This is a short but very good video, if one ignores the bias. However, it takes a few seconds to load.

@themujerista The history of Palestinian migration to Latin America 🇵🇸 🌍🌎🌏 Palestinian migration to Latin American occurred in four significant waves with Chile now being home to the largest Palestinian diaspora outside of the Middle East. #palestine #chile ♬ original sound – The Mujerista

Of course, this lady seems to have a bias against Israel, but the history is good.

What is again worth repeating is that almost all of the Palestinians who moved to Chile were Christians, either Roman Catholic or Eastern Christian (Orthodox). They assimilated well, and have risen to become elites in the country.

Such is the political power of the Palestinian-Chileans – called Chilestinos – that they have distorted Chile’s foreign policy against Israel. Otherwise, Chile would be a quite typical Western democracy.

This pro-Palestinian slant has caused concern among Jewish groups around the world, as can be seen in the video, from the World Jewish Congress, below.


Posted on YouTube: July 9, 2020

The Palestinian Community in Chile does not mince words.

What the picture says is: Imagine bombing 4 countries at the same time and continuing to believe yourself to be the victim.

However, the Jews are a very small population in Chile, and can do little to resist the pro-Palestinian slant.

This is not to say the government is antisemitic. It is NOT! Chile is quite democratic, but the government is swayed by a Chilestino population that outnumbers the Jews about 30 to 1.

It is with good reason that the Jews of the world keep an eye on Chile.

This is one of their documentaries on the “Naqba.”

You can get English an translation by playing with the settings gear.


Posted on YouTube: May 14, 2024

Palestinian Advocate Gets Press in Chile

Palestinian Advocate Gets Press in Chile

Al Jazeera is posting some video about a notable Palestinian activist, Aya al-Hamidi, in Chile.


Posted on YouTube: August 15, 2024
(You’ll probably have to make full screen
in order to read the fine print)

And we have another posted about her, here.


Go to 1:21 to see Aya al-Hamidi
Posted on YouTube: December 9, 2023

Chile is rather amazing. It is a borderline first-world country with a high democratic index, higher even than the USA.

Yet, it differs from the Western world with its strong support for Palestinians causes, which has brought Chile to the attention of many pro-Jewish, pro-Israel advocacy groups which have critized Chile for its positions, and what they perceive as antisemitism.


Posted on YouTube: July 9, 2020
by the World Jewish Congress

Chile is home to the largest demographic of Palestinians outside of the Arab word.

At roughtly 500,000 people, the Palestinians in Chile are roughly 2½ percent of the population – similar to the Jewish demographic in the USA. And also like American Jews, these Palestinians (Chilestinos) are educated, prosperous, and punch well above their weight in the economy and politics.

Source: Police in Chile guard Jews after anti-Semitic attacks
By Gil Stern, Stern Shefler
August 18, 2010
Jerusalem Post

“The Palestinian community is to Chile what the Jewish community is to the US,” [The president of Chile’s Jewish community, Gabriel] Zaliasnik explained.

Oddly, about 99% of the Palestinian-Chileans – called Chilestinos – are Christian, and seem to have forgotten how often the Muslims in the Mideast used to persecute their ancestors. Ironically, they tend to identify strongly with the Palestinian cause, even with its Muslim aspects.

Hence, a Palestinian activist, like Aly al Hamdi, can get airtime on the University of Chile’s Radio station.

Source: Radio Universidad de Chile
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Translated by Google

… Under the slogan “Our eyes in Rafah”, activist Aya Al Hamidi, the Coordinator for Palestine, Action for Palestine and Chile for Palestine, called for the mobilization this Friday afternoon through social networks and demanded that Chile break relations with Israel.

The mobilization, which began at 6:30 p.m. on the corner of Providencia and Tobalaba, was attended by a hundred people with Palestinian flags and posters calling for an end to the massacre in the Gaza Strip.

In a conversation with Radio Universidad de Chile, Aya Al Hamidi, commented that the “whole world is rising up for Palestine, for Gaza and even more so when Hamas accepted the peace agreement, accepted all the terms and everything to stop the massacre.”

“Instead of stopping, Israel attacked and invaded Rafah. Nearly 100 people have died in less than four days. So, demonstrating against a genocide is essential to be able to achieve something,” Al Hamidi said.

(Click Here) to read more.

It is not that Jews have no influence in Chile. They do. Rather, they are outnumbered by the highly successful Palestinian-Chilean community (Chilestinos) by roughly 30 to 1.


Posted on YouTube: September 1, 2021
by the World Jewish Congress

Chile’s government has a somewhate tortured relationship with Israel. Right now, it has recalled its ambassador due to the war in Gaza.

Source: Israeli Diplomacy Doing Well Despite War
~ Ynetnews / Bridges for Peace
by: Itamar Eichner
August 7, 2024

Chile: Chile’s leftist president Gabriel Boric recalled his country’s ambassador to Israel. Conversely, Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzieli remained in Chile and continues to work as usual.

Though quite democratic, and less corrupt that Argentina, Chile has does not have the strong Jewish influence that Argentina had during its history. Its government – though NOT antisemitic – is not hospitable to Israel.

Even conservative politicians – whom one would think would be pro-Israel – still have to pay homage to the Palestinian community in Chile, or their political careers will be destroyed.

And the Chilestinos?! They have group amnesia, forgetting that one of the reasons their Christian ancestors fled to Chile was to escape the Muslim world. Their support for, what is now an Islamic cause is, truly unbelievable.


September 8, 2024 – edited a spelling. Added a video.

Chilean Soccer Team Supports Gaza

Chilean Soccer Team Supports Gaza

I am just posting for your information.

The CD Palestino (Palestinian Sports Club) Soccer team is a major league soccer franchise in Santiago, Chile, sort of like a professional sports team here in the USA. It was founded in 1920 by Palestinian-Chileans (Chilestinos).

It has become more than a sports team, but also a political force to be reckoned with in Chile, and not only Chile but also in the whole Mideast. It has a large fan base in the Palestinian territories, the Muslim world, and even has its fans throughout the world.


Posted on YouTube: December 13, 2017

A Scot shows off his CD Palestino jersey.

The teams’s fame has spread world wide.

I do NOT agree with CD Palestino’s politics, which tend to be anti-Israel, but I am just reporting what is posted.

And the team is presently making a statement about the Gaza War (see first tweet).

There is an influential Palestinian constituency in Chile, and part of the way they express their power is through their sports team: CD Palestino.

Palestinians in Chile are rich, influential, and politically powerful. They vastly outnumber the Jews of Chile, and can get away with this in a way that would NOT be acceptable in the USA.

Indeed, the government of Chile often falls in line behind the Palestinian community’s wishes.

This is odd, because Chile is otherwise a progressive Western democracy.

Naturally, the Jewish community in Chile condemns anti-Israel protests in Chile – see below where the Jewish community condemned Chilean student protests which called for the university to break relations with Israeli campuses.

A Worrisome Playlist of Nasty Propaganda

A Worrisome Playlist of Nasty Propaganda


The playlist was posted on YouTube: Around 2024
(It can be auto-translated)

This is the playlist of an Iranian propaganda series, translated: Window on Palestine. Make no mistake about it, this is very slanted propaganda, but it is what is being peddled throughout Latin America by Iran and Venezuela.

We dealt with this (Click Here) earlier. But now, we wanted you to see the whole playlist.

The show is peddled through the HispanTV network, an Iranian-Venezualan propaganda project. HispanTV has been removed from American and European Satellites because it is deemed distorted propaganda. It is considered antisemitic and anti-Zionist. Google blocked HispanTV‘s YT channel, but it is still leaks through Latin American channels, such as Daniel Jadue’s.

I posted this only for information. Iran is a detestable dictatorship.

This particular anti-Israel series is hosted by a Chilestino (Palestinian-Chilean) leftist politician called Daniel Jadue. He is a major player in Chilean politics, and we have already dealt with him (Click Here) in the past.

Mr. Jadue is Palestinian-Christian in background – though he is now an atheist – who shares nothing in common with the Shia Islamists in Iran (partners in HispanTV), except their disdain for Israel.

What has to be remembered is that most of the Arabs in Chile are Palestinian in origin. And almost all of those Palestinians are Christian. Very few were/are Muslim.

Given that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a religious war, the Chilestinos (Palestinian-Chileans) in Chile are divorced from the underlying reality to the conflict. They forget that many of their ancestors fled Muslim tyranny.

It cam be auto-translated on YouTube.

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