In Sunday’s cabinet meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu singled out Iran and Venezuela for high levels of anti-Semitism.
"[There are] countries which allow anti-Semitism and even lead measured anti-Semitism. Of course, an outstanding example of this is Iran, which is headed by someone who denies the Holocaust and spreads antisemitism in every direction. I believe that it is no coincidence that a synagogue was recently desecrated in Caracas, Venezuela. There is a group of countries that allow and lead anti-Semitism on the level of government policy."
"[There also] are many other countries that do not do enough, and no less worse, in the name of freedom of speech, allow intolerable expressions of antisemitism, without condemnation. On one hand they are defending freedom of speech – and deny themselves the freedom of expression that every government, and society, has to condemn unacceptable phenomena."
The Prime Minister subsequently set up a special task force to fight anti-Semitism.