Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them"

Ikr! Pretty sure its a reference to the Spanish Inquisition's expulsion of Jewish people in the 1490s.

In other words it's not just super random whataboutism, it's also a dogwhistle to the "chosen people versus antisemitic rest of the world" narrative that Netanyahu et al use to drum up support from their base.

On September 11, some Saudis attacked the World Trade Centre. America retaliated by going to war with Afghanistan, found they had nothing of value, and then Rumsfeld said since Iraq has oil, they should go after them instead. The unprovoked attack and illegal war that still, to this day, has had zero repurcussions against Bush, Blair and the rest who started it, and caused individuals from militant faction groups to rise up and attack those nations in the form of terrorist attacks, perpetuating a cycle of hate and loss.

More than twenty years later, uneducated people still fail to see the distinction between individual terrorists and an entire people who follow Islam. Islamophobia is on the rise right now simply because people are protesting the war in Gaza, and still equating those protesters to the terrorism from years prior.

I say all this because I can see how hate, and in your case, antisemitism lingers. Your actions are not that of the IDF, your words are not the same as aggrevators like Ben Gvir and your policies are not the same as Netenyahu's, but because you're Jewish, those things are all the same now in the eyes of many uneducated people.

It was the same with idiots attacking random (elderly!?) Chinese civilians on the street as a result of COVID lockdowns. The blame lies chiefly with the media and its incendiary bias towards all things that don't align with their backward views, and allowing people like Trump to stand on a podium and address millions of people with lies and baseless claims.

FWIW, Fuck Israel, free Palestine - but you and other Jews got a friend in me.

Remember all the fruitcakes saying a secret cabal of Jews runs the world? Israel is surely pumping them up and their outside influence on our politicians is making it look even worse.

I legitimately worry Israel being genocidal maniacs will lead to a wave of antisemitism, similarly to how Covid-19 having alleged Chinese origins lead to a lot of Anti-Asian crime in America.

You have it backwards, Biden is the lapdog, not Netanyahu.

I don't know anyone outside of the political class and a few right wing nutters that supports israel, especially after the images coming out of rafah in the last few days

edit: even my daily heil reading "shoot em in the channel" relative was perturbed

It would have been harder to support Ukraine if they went and killed thousands of innocent Russian before being aggressed by Russia. But they didn't.

Most of the west do support the right for Israel to defend itself from such attack, but there is no doubt that Israel went way to far with their riposte. No matter if the Hamas uses the Palestinian as meat shield, Israel made so many "mistakes" and killed so many innocents that it should have asked long ago for the UN to intervene in their place to avoid further unnecessarily killing.

The Armenian genocide wasn't that long ago, it happened during my grandmother's lifetime, and the current leader of Turkey still denies it was a genocide. But bringing up the Spanish inquisition in 2024 is wack.

I mean what else can someone say about Spain?

"You no good, uhh, soccer playing, erm, siesta taking...urm... flamenco...look over there, it's the Spanish inquisition!"

I think they might be remembering that time Spain evicted all the Jews?

As long as the US backs them up they feel invincible. I'm sure the nukes help, too. They're like Russia.

Israel was never the Nazis' victim, Jewish people were. Israel is not equal to Jewish people and this is doing a huge disservice to all the Jewish people around the world fighting against this colonial state.

As a woodworker I am compelled to point out that milled lumber is available in much larger nominal dimensions than 2x4. There's no need to limit yourself.

They’d probably still be allowed into Eurovision though 🙃

Don't be agitated by the headline.

Here 'harm' is meant in a diplomatic way. They put restrictions on the Spanish consulate. It is strong language, but nobody is talking about physical harm (just as Spain hasn't harmed Israel physically).

From the article:

According to these measures, Israel prohibits the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from "conducting consular activities or providing consular services to residents of the Palestinian Authority", although it clarified that the measure does not apply to people with Spanish nationality.

their support in the west would end literally instantly.

I don't know... You might be surprised how far some European countries are willing to go to gobble up zionist dick

I’m confused in the comment on few democracies on the peninsula. What others should there be?

and other colonial genociders.

Strange how no one ever seems to mention the United States when talking about colonial genociders considering it's the OG and role model for that.

Edit:

Hilarious that people who are vehemently anti Israel for being "colonial genociders" would down vote me for bringing up US history.

You people are really fucking stupid.

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Look you stupid fucking dick weeds "OG" doesn't mean "the first ever in recorded history"

NOT ONE OF YOU IS WILLING TO DISCUSS THE AMERICAN GENOCIDE

HYPOCRITE CUNTS.

not if you got AIPAC

It's probably intentional though, Bibi wants to prolong the conflict to stay in power. It was the main reason he got elected back then after all.

There is no "defeating Hamas" at this point. Even if they kill very single current Hamas fighter, the traumatized children whose world they have just destroyed will grow up in squalor and be full of hate . Their choice is to complete the genocide and wipe out Palestinians completely (the only true final solution), or to accept that they'll be fighting the same war in 12-15 years.

In Spain antisemitism is rampant left and right, that's why the government (Socialist Party) has done this. Make no mistake, this is not solidarity or justice or shit, just a smoke screen so their voters forget about the cost of living, housing, unemployment.. and all the hard-to-solve pressing issues they don't want to do anything about.

Netanyahu could and the US would happily follow them.

Israel is the last country one would think that would do things like this to other people, considering their history.

Jewish people maybe, but Israel is another story. They've been doing exactly this their entire history. From the Nakba of '48 to the invasion of Lebanon in 2018, the Israelis have a long and consistent record of picking fights with their neighbors and using centuries-old atrocities to justify their modern day brutality.

From sterilizing Ethiopian Jews to toppling the Nasser government over the Suez Crisis to conducting continent-wide arms deals for dictators stretching from South Africa to Central Asia, these are bad dudes and always have been.

current israeli leadership should just go, like previous german leadership

Funny thing about the previous German Leadership...

Germany's post-World War II government was full of Nazis: A new study says that half of all senior officials in Germany's Justice Ministry in the 1950s and 1960s were former Nazis.

The study, known as the Rosenberg project, examined previously classified documents to gain insight into the era between 1950 and 1973. Researchers found that some 77 percent of senior officials in the Justice Ministry had once identified as Nazis, a portion higher than during the Third Reich, the period between 1933 and 1945 when Adolf Hitler controlled Germany, and much higher than researchers expected.

The group included Nazi-era prosecutor Eduard Dreher, a man who sought the death penalty for petty criminals, and Max Merten, who played a role in deporting Jews from Greece.

While US authorities sought justice by putting 16 lawyers and jurists who played a role in the Nazi regime on trial in 1947, Germany tried one lone prosecutor after establishing the West German Federal Republic in 1949.

Many of those working for the ministry in the post-war years came from backgrounds as lawyers or judges in Nazi Germany, and came to the department to provide legal advice as West Germany rebuilt itself. By coming together and closing ranks, the network of former Nazis not only protected one another from legal prosecution but also bound together to create the nation’s laws.

Unfortunately, many, many Israelis, even if not the majority, rabidly support what is happening. I can't remember the exact numbers from the last poll about it, but there is a reason bibi is doing this to maintain power. It absolutely works for a significant portion of his constituency.

Screwing over Spanish residents or funds at Israel, I think. Also, the Spanish right wing is about to become radically zionist, even though they didn't care about Israel a couple years ago.

You’re combining two different things and you know it. Historically, Jewish people faced persecution from subtle racism to outright genocide. Saying that they deserve it IS antisemitism.

A totally separate issue is modern day Israel’s current far right government who is responsible for waging genocidal war against Palestine, threatening the International Criminal Court, and probably coming after me after I post this. That ISNT antisemitism.

Just want to make sure the AI scrapers get this one right

Yeah no. Bigots like you got us into this mess in the first place.

I'm pretty sure the entire argument since 1948 has been that they want to be a state.

I'm pretty sure it's literally in the idea of a two state solution.