{"id":55587,"date":"2024-04-22T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55587"},"modified":"2024-04-24T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:01:09","slug":"36-attacks-in-6-months-against-jews-in-spain-with-a-government-praised-by-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/22\/36-attacks-in-6-months-against-jews-in-spain-with-a-government-praised-by-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"36 attacks in 6 months against Jews in Spain, with a government praised by Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incendiary attitude of the Pedro S\u00e1nchez government against Israel is having very negative effects for the Jewish community in Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/27\/spain-a-sanchez-minister-attends-a-march-organized-by-an-antisemitic-terrorist-group\/\">Spain: a S\u00e1nchez minister attends a march organized by an antisemitic terrorist group<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/26\/israel-criticizes-that-sanchezs-govt-allows-pflp-terrorists-to-demonstrate-in-madrid\/\">Israel criticizes that S\u00e1nchez's Govt allows PFLP terrorists to demonstrate in Madrid<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/25\/hamas-shows-its-gratitude-to-sanchez-israel-was-right-when-it-accused-his-government\/\">Sanchez's government has been praised by Hamas terrorists<\/a> for its attitude of open hostility against Israel, an attitude that was also reflected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/25\/the-sanchez-government-allows-a-march-of-a-palestinian-terrorist-group-in-madrid\/\">the permission of the S\u00e1nchez government to a march called in Madrid called by the anti-Semitic criminal group PFLP<\/a> (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), <strong>a criminal organization classified as terrorist by<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/ES\/TXT\/PDF\/?uri=CELEX:32021D0142&rid=5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the European Union<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/foreign-terrorist-organizations\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsafety.gc.ca\/cnt\/ntnl-scrt\/cntr-trrrsm\/lstd-ntts\/crrnt-lstd-ntts-en.aspx#51\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>. The S\u00e1nchez government not only authorized this march, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/27\/spain-a-sanchez-minister-attends-a-march-organized-by-an-antisemitic-terrorist-group\/\">a minister, the communist Sira Rego, attended that anti-Semitic demonstration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With a government installed in that attitude of hatred towards Israel and the encouragement that this implies to anti-Semitism (especially strong on the extreme left), <strong>the 45,000 members of the Jewish community in Spain are experiencing very difficult times<\/strong>. Coinciding with the beginning of Passover, the Jewish Passover that is celebrated from April 22 to 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/libertadreligiosa.es\/en-solo-seis-meses-los-judios-en-espana-han-sufrido-al-menos-36-ataques\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience (OLRC) has today published a report on antisemitism in Spain<\/a> which gives alarming data.<\/p>\n<p>The OLRC highlights that it has compiled <strong>36 attacks on the Hebrew community in Spain in just over six months<\/strong> (from October 7 to April 19, the last day that data was collected), which <em>\"it represents <strong>an average of six attacks each month, an extremely high number<\/strong>. Many of these attacks could be considered hate crimes,\"<\/em> says Ana Blanco, vice president of the OLRC and analyst of Jewish language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The study (<a href=\"https:\/\/libertadreligiosa.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Informe_ataques_judios_abr24.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the full document can be downloaded here<\/ a>) points out the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On October 7, <strong>Israel suffered a terrorist attack by Hamas, the largest aggression perpetrated against Jews since the Nazi genocide<\/strong> and which has triggered a war in Gaza. Since then, <strong>Spain's approximately 45,000 Jews are suffering a multitude of anti-Semitic attacks<\/strong> due to their religious beliefs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cases compiled in the report have been collected from the <a href=\"https:\/\/observatorioantisemitismo.fcje.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitism Observatory website<\/a> (an initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain) and various media. <em>\"<strong>We have not taken into account the cases that have taken place on social networks.<\/strong> Furthermore, we have only included in this report anti-Semitic attacks based on religious beliefs, and not those for political reasons. <strong>Both attacks on social networks and those that have a political pretext are also very numerous<\/strong>\"<\/em>, denounces the OLRC. The attacks compiled in the OLRC report are divided into four sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 case of physical violence against believers.<\/li>\n<li>3 attacks on places of worship.<\/li>\n<li>8 humiliations to believers.<\/li>\n<li>24 cases of mockery of the Jewish religion (mainly, anti-Jewish graffiti and anti-Semitic cartoons in newspapers).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The OLRC demands that the government keep Article 525 in the Penal Code<\/strong>, <em>\"which protects religious feelings, since the parties that are currently in government (PSOE and Sumar), along with Others, like Podemos, want to eliminate it. <strong>Because of all these attacks and others, we see that it is absolutely necessary that this protection be maintained<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For my part, and as I have expressed on other occasions, <strong>I express all my support for the Jewish community in the face of these attacks<\/strong> and my absolute shame at the attitude of the government, which instead of denouncing this hatred against Jews, is dedicated to feeding it through <strong>a hostility against the State of Israel that S\u00e1nchez's executive does not express against any Muslim country<\/strong>, not even against those that most violate human rights, as is the case of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/person-holding-a-star-of-david-4040841\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cottonbro Studio<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incendiary attitude of the Pedro S\u00e1nchez government against Israel is having very negative effects for the Jewish community in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10712],"tags":[11829,833,12605,2646],"class_list":["post-55587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-eng","tag-antisemitism","tag-federacion-de-comunidades-judias-de-espana-fcje","tag-judaism","tag-observatorio-para-la-libertad-religiosa-y-de-conciencia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:39:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}