{"id":60350,"date":"2025-07-27T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60350"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:18:39","slug":"a-nazi-hunters-center-rejects-oscar-puentes-insult-to-jewish-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/27\/a-nazi-hunters-center-rejects-oscar-puentes-insult-to-jewish-children\/","title":{"rendered":"A nazi hunter's center rejects Oscar Puente's insult to Jewish children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain's Transport Minister, Socialist \u00d3scar Puente, is prone to generating controversy with his insults on social media.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/26\/a-pedro-sanchez-minister-insults-jewish-minors-as-he-never-does-with-criminals\/\">A Pedro S\u00e1nchez minister insults Jewish minors as he never does with criminals<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/18\/pedro-sanchez-tried-to-cover-up-the-socialist-scandals-with-antisemitism-and-it-went-wrong\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez tried to cover up the socialist scandals with antisemitism and it went wrong<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The minister took sides and called French Jewish children \u201cIsraeli brats\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This time the controversy has already crossed Spanish borders. As we saw here yesterday, on July 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/26\/a-pedro-sanchez-minister-insults-jewish-minors-as-he-never-does-with-criminals\/\">\u00d3scar Puente intervened in the controversy over the expulsion of dozens of French Jewish minors from a Vueling plane<\/a>. <strong>Several complaints have already been filed against the Spanish airline for a possible case of antisemitism<\/strong>, something Vueling denies. Without waiting for the outcome of the investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/26\/a-pedro-sanchez-minister-insults-jewish-minors-as-he-never-does-with-criminals\/\">Puente published a message on Twitter taking sides and insulting Jewish children, calling them \"Israeli brats\"<\/a>, despite being of French nationality.<\/p>\n<p>The minister's message could be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oscar_puente_\/status\/1948672387785924992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a>. He deleted it in the last few hours, but <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/H9sZv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an automatic copy can be seen here<\/a>. As you could read yesterday in Counting Stars, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fcjecom\/status\/1948753939962155346\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the minister's message had been criticized by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE)<\/a>, without \u00d3scar Puente even bothering to reply.<\/p>\n<p><big>A French MP criticizes the Spanish minister: \u201cThis message should make you ashamed\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>International criticism seems to have had more of an effect on the Socialist minister. This Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephaneVojetta\/status\/1948795387755577599\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French center-left MP St\u00e9phane Vojetta criticized the Spanish minister's words<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>This message should make you ashamed.<\/strong> Investigate what happened in Valencia at once and while we wait for the conclusions, <strong>apologize for your message<\/strong>.\"<\/em> In his message, Vojetta mentioned France's transport minister, the centrist Philippe Tabarot, telling him in French: <em>\"<strong>Your counterpart deserves a phone call<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:10px 0 10px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Querido <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oscar_puente_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@oscar_puente_<\/a>, estos ni\u00f1os y adolescentes (no ni\u00f1atos) son franceses (no israelis).<\/p>\n<p>Este mensaje \u2935\ufe0f deberia darle verguenza.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Investigue de una vez lo occurido en Valencia y mientras esperamos las conclusiones, pida disculpa por su mensaje.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilippeTabarot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhilippeTabarot<\/a> votre\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3iqQyvRRl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z3iqQyvRRl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St\u00e9phane Vojetta (@StephaneVojetta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephaneVojetta\/status\/1948795387755577599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>This afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephaneVojetta\/status\/1949474630252511730\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vojetta criticized the minister for deleting his message without apologizing<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>Deleting the message is a good start, but apologizing for its content would be even better.<\/strong>\".<\/em> The MP added: <em>\"As for the official investigation, many of us are waiting for it, in France and beyond.\"<\/em> Vojetta included a screenshot of the minister's message.<\/p>\n<p><big>The Simon Wiesenthal Center joins the criticism of the minister for his message<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/simonwiesenthal\/status\/1948874717605363851\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Simon Wiesenthal Center shared MP Vojetta's message<\/a>, thanking him <em>\"for standing up for the Jewish children removed from the @vueling flight and <strong>for calling out Spain\u2019s Transport Minister (@oscar_puente_) for labeling them \u201cIsraeli brats.\u201d<\/strong> We join your call for answers and demand a full investigation into this disturbing incident.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:10px 0 10px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephaneVojetta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephaneVojetta<\/a>, for standing up for the Jewish children removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vueling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vueling<\/a> flight and for calling out Spain\u2019s Transport Minister (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oscar_puente_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@oscar_puente_<\/a>) for labeling them \u201cIsraeli brats.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>We join your call for answers and demand a full investigation into this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JEFLJAVMe5\">pic.twitter.com\/JEFLJAVMe5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Wiesenthal Center (@simonwiesenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonwiesenthal\/status\/1948874717605363851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In case anyone doesn't know, <strong>this center was founded by the famous nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005)<\/strong>, an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who was interned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. After World War II, <strong>Wiesenthal helped bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice.<\/strong> The message published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center mentioned the minister's Twitter account. Could that be what encouraged \u00d3scar Puente to delete his unfortunate message?<\/p>\n<p><big>The Simon Wiesenthal Center's previous criticisms of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that <strong>this is not the first time that the Simon Wiesenthal Center has been critical of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/strong>. In December 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiesenthal.com\/about\/news\/wiesenthal-centre-to-spanish-3.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the center denounced attacks by left-wing extremists<\/a>, including members of the Podemos and United Left parties and the terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), against a conference of Palestinian, Muslim, and Jewish intellectuals held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The center criticized the fact that the then Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Socialist Margarita Robles, said nothing<\/strong> about an attack committed very close to the headquarters of her ministry: <em>\"both you, Madam Minister, and Mr. Malki <strong>should have publicly blessed a meeting that aims at presenting a solution to the Middle East conflict<\/strong>, based on coexistence and economic cooperation,\"<\/em> said the center in a statement. The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced: <em>\"<strong>it is apparent that the Spanish Government has no interest in a peace process, even when it takes place and is violently abused on Spanish soil.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in November 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiesenthal.com\/about\/news\/wiesenthal-centre-to-european-7.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Simon Wiesenthal Center called on the European Commission to investigate the Spanish government<\/a> (and also the governments of France and Ireland) <em>\"<strong>for Alleged Continued Funding of Palestinian Terror Organizations.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The center's statement noted that <em>\"Spain, France and Ireland have agreed to continue funding to Palestinian NGOs, even in the absence of <strong>any assurance that their aid is not funneled through the recipient Palestinian NGOs to terror organizations<\/strong> actively involved in murdering Israelis.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In relation to this petition, on July 29, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiesenthal.com\/about\/news\/european-commission-decision.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced the participation of the terrorist group PFLP in a rally of the BNG<\/a> (Galician Nationalist Bloc, parliamentary partner of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government) in Santiago de Compostela. As you may recall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/07\/25\/los-separatistas-del-bng-vuelven-a-invitar-a-un-grupo-terrorista-a-uno-de-sus-mitines\/\">this fact was made known by Counting Stars on July 25 of that year<\/a> <strong>and has been repeated year after year, given the absolute inaction of the S\u00e1nchez government<\/strong>. This very week, as we saw this Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/25\/the-bng-calls-for-a-very-strong-applause-for-a-terrorist-organization-at-an-event-in-santiago\/\">the BNG asked for \"a very strong applause\" for that terrorist organization at its rally<\/a>, a fact denounced again by Contando Estrelas and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/27\/the-bng-terrorism-and-the-astonishing-silence-of-the-media-in-spain\/\">has been silenced by all other Spanish media<\/a>, something truly unusual.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/albums\/72177720317504783\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSOE<\/a>. Spanish Prime Minister and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, with Transport Minister \u00d3scar Puente at a PSOE public event in Valladolid on June 1, 2024.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s Transport Minister, Socialist \u00d3scar Puente, is prone to generating controversy with his insults on social media.<\/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":[19536,10398],"tags":[6682,11829,428,21963,1062,12605,13237,693,24924,7841,11344,24925,11462,24923,3732],"class_list":["post-60350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-oscar-puente","tag-antisemitism","tag-bng","tag-federation-of-jewish-communities-of-spain-fcje","tag-izquierda-unida","tag-judaism","tag-margarita-robles","tag-psoe","tag-philippe-tabarot","tag-podemos","tag-popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-pflp","tag-simon-wiesenthal-center","tag-spain","tag-stephane-vojetta","tag-vueling"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 03:55:35","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\/60350","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=60350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}