A display of anti-Semitic books at a Caracas, Venezuela book fair drew a letter of protest from the Jewish community’s Human Rights Office, the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League reported. In a letter to the president of the International Education Expo 74, the office cited four books–“The International Jew.” “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” “Israel Commands” and “Protocols of the Bosses of Israel: A Secret Jewish Plan?”– for attempting “to impair Venezuelan democracy by introducing racial and religious hatred.”
According to the ADL’s Latin American Affairs Department, Mexico City, where the books were printed, is the publishing center for anti-Semitica in the Spanish language. The League has received complaints from American tourists that such books are on display in bookstores and hotels in Mexico.
They are also exported to many Latin American countries where anti-Semitic elements subsidize their sale at reduced prices and are sold in the United States in neighborhood bookstores of cities with Spanish-speaking populations. In addition, the books are offered by mail through “Accion,” the official publication of the Cuban nationalist organization, “Commandos Libres Nacionalistas” of EI Monte, California.
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