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Sadly: Chile’s Jewish Students Are Worried Over Hatred

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University of Chile

Chile’s large and very influential Palestinian (mostly Christian) community has added an anti-Israel influence to a lot of Chile’s culture and politics. I do not say all Chileans have this attitude, but it is magnified by the prosperity and clout of Chile’s Palestians. This is sad.

Source: Chile’s Jewish students situation grows worse by the day – opinion – Jerusalem Post – April 18, 2022

… Chile has long been a hotbed of anti-Israel extremism due to its population of half a million Palestinians, but the situation for Jewish students on campus grows worse by the day.

Sadly, the extremism in Chile that is often manifested as harassment of the Jewish community (in particular on campuses) has been largely ignored by Israel and the global Jewish world, as it has continued to grow.

Last week Chile’s Israel hatred finally went viral, with Chile even trending on Twitter in Israel during Chile’s “apartheid week.” The impetus? A visit from Arab-Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad, who spoke on multiple campuses about the cooperation between Arabs and Jews within Israel, contrary to the extremist narrative of the Palestinian community.

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A major reason for this flare-up was a visit by Yousef Haddad, an Israeli-Arab who served in the IDF. Mr. Haddad – who says he is a Christian Arab – is a pro-Israel advocate, and the pro-Palestinian students did not appreciate his message.


Posted on YouTube: April 12, 2022

Chile is a bizarre outlier on this.

Historically, Chile has been tolerant and friendly to Jews, but the presence of half a million Palestinians in Chile has distorted the discussion.

Palestinians Flexed Muscles in Chile

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Source: MEMO
July 10, 2020

The Chilean Senate last week approved a resolution calling on President Sebastian Pinera Echenique to adopt a law boycotting settlement goods and banning commercial activity with companies that operate in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The motion passed on 30 June with 29 votes in favour and six abstentions, no votes were cast against the move.

This story is about two months late before I caught it on a written news story, here, but it was not headlines in America. — Though I did catch it earlier (Click Here) as a video report.

The World Jewish Congress considers the Chilean Senate’s move to be anti-semitic.

There is no way that this could have occurred in the United States. In Chile,even conservative presidents, like Pinera, have to yield to the Palestinian bloc.

New Video from Chile Regarding Gaza

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New Video from Chile Regarding Gaza


Published on YouTube: April 14, 2020

As this website has explained many times, the Palestinian Community of Chile [Chilestinians1] has been an incredibly powerful block in Chile, working for anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian legislation.

Though 99% Christian, the Chilestinian1 community supports agendas that seem parallel with the Islamic movement of Hamas.

This astounds many observers: Why would a Christian community support the political agenda of Islamicists? But apparently, the Chilestinians are more anti-Israel than pro-Christian.

The source of the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhLDLCDni1I

1The Palestinian-Chilean community has adopted the term “Chilestinian” – or “Chilestino” in Spanish – to indicate their indicate their identification with both Chile and Palestine as a fusion.

The Chilestinian community punches well above its weight in Chilean politics, and has a massive influence on Chile. They have hamstrung much of Chile’s policies – not all – regarding Israel and Palestine.

Chile May Be a Possible Solution for Peace

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Chile May Be a Possible Solution for Peace


Posted on YouTube: April 2, 2019
Note: The team, CD Palestino was founded in 1920. The reference to 1948 refers to what the Palestinians call the Naqbe.

Chile has been taking in Palestinians since the 19th century. The vast majority were Christians from Beit Jala, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem, and Beit Safafa.

Many were fleeing the anti-Christian persecutions of the Ottoman Turks (before 1917), and later some fled the Muslim-Jewish fighting during the Mandate. A few came after the Six Day War in 1967.

However, there were a few Muslims among them: some either converted to Christianity or married Christian women who raised the kids to be Christian. Roughly 99% of the Palestinians in Chile, Chilestinians, are Christian.

These Palestinians have often become elites in Chile, and they wield political power above their numbers.

Chile has a major league soccer (futbol) team called CD (Sports Club) Palestino, which represents the Palestinian community to the world. It is followed not only in Chile, but in Palestine.

There are some who claim that Palestinian identity did not exist until 1967, however …

1920 – CD (Sports Club) Palestino was formed
1938 – Club Palestino (a social club) was opened. This is no minor local club, but is a major cultural force.


Posted on YouTube: February 23, 2017

At the time of this writing, Gaza is brimming over with about 1.8 million people. Gaza is under an Israel blockade, and the situation has become unliveable.

Israel has even offered to pay the flight fare for those Gazan Arabs willing to emigrate from Gaza, but Israel can find no willing countries to take them.

Haaretz, August 20, 2019

Israeli authorities are willing to allow Gaza Strip residents who want to emigrate to fly out via Israel if a country is found to accept them, a senior government official said on Monday. According to the official, Israel would even pay for the flight. The official added that the government had asked a few countries, including some in the Middle East, whether they would be willing to accept Palestinians from Gaza, and was turned down.

Well, Israel should know better.

It will take more than a free flight to get countries to accept the Arabs.

But if Israel is willing to give the Gazans some money – say $100,000 US per person – then Chile might be willing to take in some Gazans, or some Palestinians from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

The general idea is good; but it will cost more than paying the fare of a few Palestinians willing to leave Gaza.

Chile could easily absorb 100,000 Palestinians – whether from Gaza, or Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), does not matter.

But it will cost more than a free airline ticket.

Now, Chile could not possibly take in all the Palestinians. But 100,000 would be doable, and it would be a good start. At $100,000 US per person, it would be $10 Billion. It would not be cheap.

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