Red ethics: buying weapons from Israel, bad; buying them from Hamas allies, good

The Spanish left claims not to be anti-Semitic, but it consistently and perfectly meets one of the criteria for being so.

The links of Yolanda Díaz's party with a terrorist group that supports Hamas
Spain: a Sánchez minister attends a march organized by an antisemitic terrorist group

Government row over bullet purchase from Israel

According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, one form of antisemitism is "applying a double standard by asking Israel to behave in a way that is not expected or required of any other democratic country". A double standard that the Spanish left applies incessantly and that has only one explanation: Israel is the only Jewish state in the world.

The latest example of this anti-Semitism is from today. Pedro Sánchez has ordered the rescission of a contract already signed with an Israeli company for the purchase of handgun ammunition for the Civil Guard. Sánchez has done this by giving in to pressure from his communist partners in Sumar (the current electoral brand of the Spanish Communist Party, PCE), but the prime minister himself has been displaying clear animosity toward Israel for years.

Not a single complaint about the possible purchase of aircraft from Türkiye, an ally of Hamas

Things change when we talk about Muslim countries, of which there are dozens, and a considerable portion are also dictatorships. For example, the Islamist regime in Turkey recently ordered the arrest of the opposition leader, in a move very reminiscent of what Vladimir Putin is doing in Russia. The Spanish left said nothing.

Let us also remember that the Sánchez government is planning to purchase a Turkish military aircraft, the TAI Hürjet, to replace the Air Force's F-5BM training aircraft. Let us remember that Turkey is one of the countries that most supports Hamas terrorists, which Turkish President Erdogan called as "a liberation group" after Hamas perpetrated the largest massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust on October 7 2023. Complaints from the Spanish left about this? Not a single one.

The PCE's ties to the PFLP, classified as terrorist by the EU

Let us remember, in fact, that the second vice president of Sánchez's government, Yolanda Díaz, and his Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, belong to the PCE, a party sister to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is classified by the European Union as a terrorist organization. In fact, the PFLP supported Hamas's terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.

After that attack, in January 2024 the Sánchez government authorized a PFLP march in Madrid, a march attended by Minister Sira Rego. These are the ones who criminalize the State of Israel, a democracy attacked by terrorists, while they remain silent when Sánchez decides to do business with an authoritarian regime that supports Hamas criminals. The problem for this government is not human rights: its problem is the Jews, whose only state it treats with profound hatred while Sánchez flirts with communist and Islamist dictatorships that violate the most basic human rights.

---

Photo: Efe. Socialist Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, sitting in the blue seat of Congress (reserved for the executive branch) next to the Second Vice President of the Government, Communist Yolanda Díaz.