Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Raíces; revista judía de cultura
Angaben zur Quelle:
79 (2009) 39-47
Keywords:
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
In several articles in late 2008-early 2009, the Basque newspaper "Gara" and the "Diario de Noticias" of Navarra sharply condemned the Israeli operation in Gaza known as "Cast Lead". Banalizing the Holocaust, they equated Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and Israeli military operations with Nazi rule and military actions in Europe. They also compared the situation of the Palestinian population as a result of the Israeli blockade with ghettoization of the Jews during World War II. Explains that the hostility toward Israel and the Jews in the press, which claims to be progressive and liberal, is the expression of a trend in Basque and Navarran society of anti-Judaism deeply rooted in Spanish culture. In the public sphere, this attitude finds expression in comments such as "the victims have become the executioners" or "the Jews are doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them".
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