Anti-Semitic literature is now being distributed in Latin American capitals by members of the Children of God sect. Founded in 1968 in Huntington Beach, California, by David Berg (alias Moses David), the sect has recently expanded its activities throughout Latin America. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith reports that the controversial group now has centers in Mexico City, Guatemala, Caracas, Bogota, Quito, Lima, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
The Children of God, who preach an ultra-fundamentalist theology and live in communes, distribute in Spanish translation the same anti-Israel and anti-Semitic literature which it also distributes in the U.S., including several pamphlets which laud President Muammar Qaddafi of Libya. An ADL report on their pamphlet, “The Arab Wall,” described it as saturated with raw anti-Semitism, charging that America is “Jewish, Jewish controlled, Jewish operated” and beseeching God to “help the Arabs” and “punish the Jews….”
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