{"id":672250,"date":"2026-05-15T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:09:10","slug":"sanchez-backs-barcelona-football-star-yamal-against-attacks-from-israel-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672250\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez backs Barcelona football star Yamal against attacks from Israel \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI expect a great and respected club like FC Barcelona to distance itself from these statements and make it unequivocally clear that there is no place for incitement or for support of terrorism,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Israel_katz\/status\/2054854408677048576?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Katz said in a post on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez hit back by saying the teenager had \u201conly expressed the solidarity with Palestine felt by millions of Spaniards. Another reason to be proud of him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new spat follows last month\u2019s bid by Spain and three other EU members to end the bloc\u2019s association agreement with Israel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-reject-suspend-israel-association-agreement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which was ultimately rejected by other foreign ministers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e1nchez is the most vocal EU leader in condemning Israel, saying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-pushes-to-end-eu-israel-association-agreement-pedro-sanchez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at a political rally in April<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ca government that violates international law or the principles of the EU cannot be its partner.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Yamal is expected to be one of Spain\u2019s key players during this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI expect a great and respected club like FC Barcelona to distance itself from these statements and make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,6898,6897,92689,12241,97733,2020,324388,588,85],"class_list":["post-672250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}