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[Israeli ambassador] COMMEMORATES
VICTIMS OF JEWISH ATROCITIES
Spanish
Town Observes ‘Palestinian Genocide
Day’
by EZRA HaLEVI
MADRID — A Spanish town has cancelled its observance of
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, preferring to highlight the “genocide of the Palestinian people” by the
Jews.
This past January 27th, the municipality of the Madrid suburb of
Ciempozuelos announced that all ceremonies and public events scheduled for the day would be dedicated to the atrocities committed by the Jews, rather than those committed by the Nazis.
[Susan Leon]The town, home to 20,000 people, attracted global attention as a result. Israel’s
Ambassador to Spain Victor Harel
(above) asked town mayor Susana
León (left) to recant. Jewish organizations also issued condemnations of the move.
“Your attempt to equate the industrialized mass murder of six million Jewish women, men and children, as well as millions of others, with the situation of the
Palestinian people is shameful,” wrote
Anti-Defamation
League Director Abraham Foxman
(right)in a
statement.
“It reflects an extremely
disturbing tendency, which is
particularly visible in Europe, to
dishonor the memory of the victims of
the Holocaust and de-legitimize the
State of Israel by seeking to eradicate
the clear moral difference between the
Holocaust and the loss of Palestinian
lives as a result of the Arab-Israeli
conflict.”
The decision caused heated debate within Spain, and finally the national government stepped in to pressure the town to cancel the public Palestinian
Genocide observances. The town cancelled all public observances on January 27, including Holocaust memorials, to protest the move.
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