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Palestinian Sympathies In Latin America

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Palestinian Sympathies In Latin America

Source: Why Latin America Advocates for Palestine: Roots of Solidarity and Resistance
Arab America
by Nissrine Bedda
November 27, 2024

While many Western countries align with the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, often appearing to act in support of Zionist agendas, the nations of Latin America show strong solidarity with the Palestinian people. This connection goes beyond political alliances and reflects a shared history and cultural understanding.

From Palestinian identity and traditions to the preservation of their roots and, most importantly, their land, Latin American empathy for Palestinians is deeply rooted in the region’s history of Arab migration, the celebration of heritage, and a profound understanding of the struggles faced by indigenous communities. These nations recognize the pain of displacement and the fight to preserve one’s homeland and cultural identity against forces that seek to undermine or erase them.

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Yes, there is a degree of truth to the article, and the author does go through a lot of countries.

However, what is overlooked is the growing demographic of Evangelical Christians in Latin America. They may not be able to elect presidents in some countries, but they limit the maneuverability of those presidents in foreign policies.

All articles have to be checked for bias, and the article above is one of them.

Balance that article with this video below.


Posted on YouTube: November 6, 2023
The video can be auto-translated

Lula da Silva’s government in Brazil would be much more anti-Israel were it not hamstrung by his country’s pro-Zionist Evangelical community which is close to one-third of the population.

And not just Brazil! This video below is from Ecuador.


Posted on YouTube: August 26, 2020
AND THE VIDEO IS BY A CHRISTIAN CHANNEL

This is a growing phenomenon in Latin America, and cannot be overlooked.

While Evangelical Christianity seems to be weakening in the United States, it is growing in Latin America – and not just the mainstream denominations, but tilted heavily to the pro-Christian Zionist denominations.

So yes, the Arab ethnics still have clout (especially in Chile) but for how long? How long?

Israeli Influence In Latin America

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Israeli Influence In Latin America


Posted on YouTube: August 28, 2024

Again, note that the video (above) is by Al Jazeera which is funded by the Qatari government, and can be biased.

The video is in Spanish, but it there is an option to have it translated to English.

Unlike the USA, where there are very influential organized pro-Israel advocates, in much of Latin America the Jewish influence can be muted. Hence there is a mixed response of Latin American countries to the Mideast situation.

So Israel has to use different methods – other than it would in the USA or Canada – to get its message across.

Argentina is sort of an exception, as the Jews in Argentina were, by percentages, much larger than in other Latin countries. And Argentina’s president Javier Milei is very pro-Israel.

The real game changer is the rise of strong Evangelical Christianity in Latin America, especially in Brazil, where the Evangelical Christians are close to one-third of the population. When the President was Bolsonaro, the policies of the government were quite pro-Israel. Now that Lula is president, the police of Lula’s anti-Israel stances have to be muted from what they would otherwise be. The Evangelicals in Brazil are a powerful voting bloc.

Again, Brazil is an exception. Under President Bolsonaro, Brazil’s foreign policy was very, very pro-Israel, but the last Brazilian presidential election returned Lula to office. (However, that election was suspicious). Even so, Lula cannot be quite as anti-Israel as he would like, because of the Evangelical votes.


Posted on YouTube: November 13, 2023

So the best thing for Israel to do would be to support Evangelical Christianity.

Latin America vs Iranian Interference

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Latin America vs Iranian Interference


Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2024

Source: Iran’s terrorist expansion to Latin America
Dallas Morning News
by Dina Siegel Vann
November 23, 2024

Too few people realize the full extent of Iran’s role in backing terrorist groups across the Middle East, from Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Even fewer are aware of Iran’s expanding influence in the Western Hemisphere, threatening regional stability and U.S. security at an alarming level.

But we can’t afford to ignore the threat any longer. It’s time for the U.S. to act, forging a comprehensive plan with our allies to preempt Iran’s geopolitical ambitions in our own neighborhood.

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As this website has noted, many times, Iran has influence all over Latin America, not just through propaganda with HispanTV, but with smuggling and drug trafficking.

This, unfortunately, is nothing new. It has been going on for years.


Posted on YouTube: April 19, 2024

Hezbollah funds itself by drug trafficking.

Source: The Laundromat: Hezbollah’s Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
Bar Ilan University
by Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
July 14, 2021

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Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multibillion-dollar money-laundering and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that cleans organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through multiple waypoints in the Western hemisphere, West Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Traditionally, Hezbollah used the TBA’s illicit economy as a hub for money-laundering—less so for cocaine trafficking. For years, Hezbollah-linked drug traffickers in the TBA moved only relatively small quantities of cocaine. Multi-ton shipments are another story.
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Finally, this is from 2007


Posted on YouTube: January 24, 2007

This has been going on in Latin America for some time.

Latin Arabia has a post on the problem in 2012 (Click Here).

This post from 2020 has a blockquote from 2011 about the problem in Chile (Click Here).

Iran’s HispanTV Is Ratcheting Up Antisemitism in Latin America

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Iran’s HispanTV Is Ratcheting Up Antisemitism in Latin America

Source: HispanTV: The Iranian Regime’s Long Arm of Hate in Latin America
ADL
July 2024

The top two channels IRIB [the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting] uses for promoting anti-Jewish hate globally are the English-language PressTV, established in 2007, and its Spanish-language twin HispanTV, established in 2011. A joint ADL and Center for Countering Digital Hate report issued in April 2023, titled “State Hate: How Iran’s Press TV Uses Social Media to Promote Anti-Jewish Hatred,” exposed PressTV as a “foreign state hate operation” that targets “Jewish people with antisemitic tropes,” and attacks “charities, schools, journalists, academics, and individuals by promoting the conspiracy that they are part of a coordinated ‘Zionist movement.’”

To download the whole ADL report: (click here).

We here at Latin Arabia have noted the pernicious influence of HispanTV on South American culture for over a decade, now. Do a search for HispanTV on our site – we didn’t always tag it.

No doubt, HispanTV strikes a chord with some Arab-Latins.

A primer post, here on Latin Arabia, from 2013, deals with this insidious network, and can be found here.

This is an even better post.

HispanTV (and its English equivalent, PressTV) have faced bans in Europe.

But HispanTV is powerful and well known in Latin America. A Major Chilean Politician: Daniel Jadue (of Christian Palestinian ancestry) – a former presidential candidate – has had a series on HispanTV.


Posted on YouTube: June 24, 2021
From Turkish TV

Daniel Jadue’s television series (below):


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

HispanTV has been thrown off of many platforms, but seems to always re-emerge.

The thing here is not to panic.

In countries where the major Arab demographic is Maronite Lebanese (such as Brazil), the political effects of the Arab communities can be neutral. Maronite Lebanese were historically hostile to Islam. Some were even friendly to Zionism.

Maronites tend to be Western in outlook, and they have assimilated easier and more successfully than other Arabs. Where the Maronite demographic is large among Arab communities, they will dampen anti-Zionism.

But in countries with large and influential Palestinian communities (such as Chile), all havoc can break loose.

The Palestinians are highly successful in Chile, and have out-sized influenced. They have distorted Chile’s foreign policy. Even Chile’s otherwise conservative politicians pander to them.

This is the audience that HispanTV would attract. While such an audience is indeed worrisome, it also has to be remembered that Evangelical Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds in Latin America.

HispanTV is annoying, but it will be drowned out by Christianity.

It’s effects on politics have to be watched though.

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