[ April 12, 2026 ]
Over four days have passed since leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected President of Mexico. Yet there has been no indication that Mexico will move away from its pro-Israel policies. No statements by Obrador denouncing Israel. No calling for a “Palestinian” state. No statements supporting the BDS Movement. No statements supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. This may come as a surprise to many. One would assume that leftist politicians (such as the detestable Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn) are obligated to hate Israel. That may be true in the United States and the United Kingdom.
However, there is one significant difference between Mexico and the United States and the United Kingdom, where the anti-Semites Sanders and Corbyn reside, respectively. In Mexico, there has been no Hijrah. Mexico is a country of over 130 million people. The Muslim population in Mexico is a mere 100,000, which means that the Muslim vote is not large enough to have any impact upon any of the countries politicians. Mexican politicians (especially leftist ones) will not be forced to appease a voting bloc that is hostile to Israel and Jews. Mexican politicians (given the small percentage of Muslim voters) will not be subjected to bullying, threats, or intimidation, that often force politicians in the U.S, UK, and Europe to adopt vicious anti-Israel policies.
Mexico is not the only country in Latin America to embrace Israel in recent years. Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, and Honduras have also become very close with Israel, as have Colombia and Paraguay. Peru and Brazil are also rapidly moving to Israel’s corner. Argentina’s relations with Israel have never been stronger, despite the cancellation of a recent soccer match between the two countries. These Latin-American countries have one thing in common: their Muslim populations are all below 1 percent. There are certainly a number of other reasons for Israel’s significantly improved relations with Latin American countries. However, the fact that most countries in Latin America have not experienced high levels of Muslim immigration is a major factor.
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“Will golden age of Israel-Mexico ties continue under Obrador?,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, July 3, 2018:
The landslide election in Mexico Sunday of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador raises numerous questions about how the ardently left-wing, anti-establishment candidate will govern.
What policies will he adopt toward US President Donald Trump? How will Mexico orient itself regarding the rest of Latin America? How will he tackle Mexico’s staggering homicide rate (29,000 people killed in 2017), one of the highest rates in the world? How will he deal with the country’s economy?
For Israel, however, the key questions is whether he will continue the policies of his predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto, policies which have led a veritable Golden Age in Israel-Mexico ties.While Jerusalem is reflexively wary when left-wing governments take over in various countries around the world, this does not necessarily bode ill for relations with the Jewish state, as evident by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ left wing government in Greece that has maintained – and even moved forward – the close ties established with Israel by his more conservative predecessor.“The relations between Israel and Mexico are really now at a peak,” Dina Siegel Vann, the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, said in a phone interview from Washington.She said this was manifest in unprecedented business ties and cooperation between the two countries; regular high-profile visits, the most important being Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [sic] trip to Mexico City last September; and the changes in Mexico’s voting pattern at the UN.
For instance, Mexico abstained both in the December vote in the UN General Assembly condemning the US for moving its embassy to Jerusalem, and in the vote in the same body last month condemning Israel for the violence in Gaza and calling for the protection of the Palestinian civilian population. In the past they have generally voted against Israel in these types of votes. “The question is whether he will continue on that track, or if he will harken back to the time when Mexico was part of the Third World and non-aligned movement, ” Siegel Vann said.
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