(Jerusalem Post) Gil Shefler - In recent weeks, schools, synagogues and cemeteries in the Chilean cities of Santiago, Concepcion and Temuco have been vandalized and desecrated, according to the American Jewish Committee. In Santiago, vandals scrawled "Juden Raus" (German for "Jews out") on the walls of the Chaim Weizmann school. In a separate incident, a video was posted on the Web showing people urinating in a Jewish cemetery in the city. Public opinion in Chile, home to 20,000 Jews, is often influenced by the country's politically powerful 200,000 Palestinian immigrants and their descendents.
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