Catalonia's Autonomous Government does not want Israeli Ambassador in Spain to publish Judeophobe attacks

[Nora Sánchez]

During Israel's Cast Lead operation in Gaza there were several judeophobe attacks in Europe. In Spain, some of them happened in Catalonia. So, Israeli ambassador in Spain called Mr. Montilla, Catalonia's Autonomous President to demand an statement rejecting those attacks, specially the judeophobic graffities they wrote in a sinagoge in Barcelona (you know, the usual crap: broken windows, "murderers" written in the walls, etc.). But Montilla is not happy with it. He has not only rejected making any kind of statement against those attacks, but has denied their existence at all. And:

After denying the truth and not condemning the judeophobic attacks, Montilla has asked the Ambassador not to publish any of those "incidents", but to tell them to the Generalitat (that is, Catalonia's Autonomous Government), whose responsibility is the security of all citizens, including, of course, those of the Jewish community".

Isn't it truly marvellous? He is angry not because there were actually Anti-Semitic/Judeophobic attacks in Catalonia, but because the Israeli Ambassador complained publicly about them!!! So everyone could know they have actually happened.

Cross-posted from Spanish Pundit.

[Cassandra Troy]

Wow, speaking of an explosive mixture! This sounds complicated, but are the broad lines not the same? Nationalism is nothing but a collective based on national identity. It excludes everyone else admittedly, which just makes it perhaps a trifle nastier than other collectives based, say on social class. I cannot believe a reversal like that is possible, but look at Islam! They're harking back to the Middle Ages.

[Nora Sánchez]

Catalonia has a very difficult situation these days because of Catalan nationalism. They are devoting huge quantities of resources towards an-only-Catalan state and if you have other ideas, then you're banish from politics and from society. They are just doing in other matters the same they have done to the Israeli Ambassador: I don't like what you say, so shut up and, in case you're aware of those facts, just tell it in very low voice...

[Cassandra Troy]

This is rather typical of the Postmodern 'enlightened' and it shows their obscurantist roots. Their main ethics being "make love, not war" any hush-up and cover-up is better than having to take measures that could trigger violence on the part of the aggressors: so appease, appease, appease. This is how the evil of fascism started and spread. They have a flat-lining learning curve!