Political commentators like Candace Owens took to social media in the wake of the US military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to assert that Israel or a Jewish cabal had orchestrated the Saturday operation. Owens compared the operation in Venezuela to the civil war in Syria and US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and said that Zionists always supported such actions.
“The CIA has staged another hostile takeover of a country at the behest of a [sic] globalist psychopaths,” wrote Owens. “That’s what is happening, always, everywhere. Zionists cheer every regime change. There has never been a single regime change that Zionists have not applauded because it means they get to steal land, oil, and other resources.”
Former MMA fighter Jake Shields also claimed on social media on Sunday that the operation was “another war for Israel” in response to US Ambassador Mike Huckabee explaining how the raid impacted the Middle East and the rest of the world. Shields also drew a link between US President Donald Trump’s Monday nomination for the Israel Prize and Saturday’s operation.
Maduro raid: Influencers claim Trump is a 'Jewish puppet'
UK doctor and anti-Israel activist Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan also implied a connection between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Monday visit to the United States, prior to the attack.
American influencer Stew Peters claimed on X/Twitter on Saturday that the regime change was done to satisfy the US’s “Israeli masters.”
Other online influencers, many of whom have hundreds of thousands of followers, asserted that Jews were behind the raid in Caracas. Some, like Communist influencer Jackson Hinkle, noted that Maduro’s trial would be presided over by a judge who was a “Jewish Zionist.”
An account called Uncommon Sense, claimed that the “Jews” wanted the US to “take out Maduro” because of his support for Palestinians and because Maduro had supposedly banned pornography and usury, which were ostensibly “Jewish values.”
“At the end of the day, Trump is a Jewish puppet,” wrote the account with almost 300,000 followers.