Antisemitismo , populismo y nacionalismo

Though politic antisemitism appears in fact as an excellent agent of populist coagulation, it does not mean that antisemitism is absolutely necessary for a populist synthesis. The striking coalescence of antisemitism and populism is due to the same paranoid rhetoric that they share, to the ensemble of eterogeneous, contradictory elements, sometimes each other in mutual conflict, but linked and fitted In long term constructions. This way, some types of populism meet and melt with antisemitic discourses.

Latin America, homeland of populism, side by side with France, doesn’t share with this one the bad reputation of politic antisemitismus. However, and perhaps therefore, it is interesting to analyze how the anti-Semitic touch stains the populist rhetoric, though in a minor degree. There exist clear bonds between them in the beginning of the “movimiento peronista” and since 1973 all Latin-American populisms adopt a new form of antisemitism: a certain antizionism that internationalizes “the enemy of the people” and assimilates it to the Jewish people, “conqueror and dominator” through the Israeli State, supported by “the North American imperialism”. Newly, specially Hugo Chávez, pretender to a regional (and perhaps to a worldwide third-worldly) leadership began to

develop the “antizionist” version.