Ah yes. Another failed regime, another round of “it was the Jews.”A tradition unlike any other. Since Venezuela’s VP just blamed “Zionists” for Maduro’s arrest, it feels like a good time to review how often leaders have reached for this excuse when everything falls apart on their watch: • Ancient Rome – Economic trouble, political unrest? Clearly the fault of a tiny Jewish minority that had zero power. • Medieval Europe – Plagues wiping out entire populations? Must be Jewish wells. Not, you know, disease. • Spain (1492) – Empire declining, treasury drained? Expel the Jews. Problem solved. (Narrator: it was not.) • Tsarist Russia – Poverty, unrest, incompetence? Pogroms it is. • Nazi Germany – Lost a war, wrecked the economy, humiliated internationally? Blame the Jews. We all know how that ended. • Soviet Union – System failing? Invent “rootless cosmopolitans.” • Middle Eastern dictatorships (various eras) – Corruption, repression, no freedom, no opportunity? Zionists. Always Zionists. • Modern-day authoritarians – Drug trafficking, economic collapse, stolen elections? Cue the antisemitic conspiracy. And now, 2026 Venezuela:A dictator is arrested on narcoterrorism charges… and somehow Jews on the other side of the planet did it. It’s almost impressive how consistent this playbook is. When leaders fail, when systems rot, when people suffer — instead of accountability, reform, or truth — they reach for the oldest scapegoat in history. Different century. Same excuse. Funny how it’s never the corruption, the brutality, the incompetence…Always the Jews.