{"id":16725,"date":"2025-09-15T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/16725\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:55:09","slug":"israel-accuses-spanish-pm-of-inciting-anti-israeli-protests-in-madrid-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/16725\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel accuses Spanish PM of inciting anti-Israeli protests in Madrid \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign minister also alleged that S\u00e1nchez had moved to mobilize demonstrators a few days after the Spanish leader \u201clamented not having an atomic bomb to \u2018stop Israel.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sa\u2019ar was apparently referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/Paginas\/2025\/080925-sanchez-medidas-gaza.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">speech<\/a> on Sept. 8 in which S\u00e1nchez emphasized Spain\u2019s small stature on the global stage. Madrid does not \u201chave nuclear bombs, nor does it have aircraft carriers or large oil reserves,\u201d the prime minister said at the time, adding that his country therefore \u201ccannot stop the Israeli offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement was part of S\u00e1nchez\u2019s wider plea for the international community to work together to stop the deaths of civilians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Israel and Spain have been on the rise since 2023, when S\u00e1nchez became one of the EU\u2019s most vocal critics of Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Madrid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-recognize-palestine-state-statehood-by-july-2024-foreign-minister-jose-manuel-albares\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recognized Palestinian statehood<\/a> last year, and earlier this week imposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-pm-sanchez-permanent-weapons-embargo-israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tough new measures<\/a> on Israel \u2014 among them a permanent weapons embargo.<\/p>\n<p>Following that announcement, Sa\u2019ar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gidonsaar\/status\/1964952214243262493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">accused<\/a>\u00a0the Spanish government of being \u201cantisemitic\u201d and using a \u201chostile anti-Israeli line\u201d to \u201cdistract attention from serious corruption scandals.\u201d He also banned two members of S\u00e1nchez\u2019s cabinet from entering Israel, citing their alleged \u201csupport for terrorism and violence against Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protest action<\/p>\n<p>Protestors have repeatedly disrupted this year\u2019s Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a by blocking the race route while carrying Palestinian flags and signs calling out Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza. Over the past week various Spanish officials have expressed support for the demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The foreign minister also alleged that S\u00e1nchez had moved to mobilize demonstrators a few days after the Spanish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2973,85,46,43,48,3800,2727,3804],"class_list":{"0":"post-16725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-foreign-policy","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-palestine","13":"tag-pedro-sanchez","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-yolanda-diaz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}