However, under the presidencies of both Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, allegations of antisemitism grew following actions and statements by the Venezuelan government, while also occurring in public incidents.

In the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla incident on May 31, 2010, President Hugo Chavez and his government apparatus have once again resorted to anti-Zionist allegations, including false conspiracy theories about Israel.

Oct 23, 2012 · President Chavez broadcasted on national TV that the Mossad wants to kill him, ranted that the "genocide State of Israel" finances the Venezuelan opposition, and cursed the State of Israel saying, "I want to condemn from the bottom of my soul, from the bottom of my guts: damn you State of Israel!

Mar 6, 2013 · NEW YORK — Hugo Chavez, the longtime president of Venezuela who often spouted anti-Israel rhetoric and befriended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has died. Chavez, who ruled the South American country for 14 years, died Tuesday following a long cancer illness, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech.

Feb 13, 2009 · The Jewish community is apprehensive amid attacks on Jewish institutions following President Hugo Chávez’s expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

Venezuela expelled Israel's ambassador to Venezuela and part of the embassy personnel, and Hugo Chávez called for Ehud Olmert to be tried for war crimes.

Mar 5, 2013 · Chavez, who ruled the South American country for 14 years, died Tuesday following a long cancer illness, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech. Chavez was 58.

Mar 6, 2013 · There were the demands by President Hugo Chavez when war broke out between Israel and Hamas in December 2008 that his country’s Jews rebuke Israel for its conduct in Gaza. There was Chavez’s...

The prejudice peaked when then-President Hugo Chávez – known for his pro-Palestinian stance – demanded that the Israeli ambassador leave over the “Holocaust that Israel was perpetrating in Gaza,” as Chávez put it. Since then, Israel has had no diplomatic presence in Venezuela.

Mar 14, 2013 · According to Chavez, the lack of statements from the opposition means, "The owners of Israel, in other words, the Empire, are the the owners of the opposition." Chavez reiterated his call to send the President of Israel to the International Criminal Court.