THE HATE IN SPAIN IS MOSTLY VERY PLAIN:POLL SHOWS ONE OF THREE SPANIARDS IS ANTI-SEMITIC….SEE NOTE
THE ARAB INFLUENCE IN SPAIN IS TREMENDOUS…..EVEN WHEN WE WERE THERE IN 1998 IN PORTO BANUS IN MARBELLA WE WERE ASKED TO RELINQUISH OUR TABLE IN MID MEAL BECAUSE AN ARAB TYCOON WANTED A WATER VIEW…THEIR MEGA YACHTS CHOKED THE MARINA….RSK
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Poll: One in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic
Survey released on the eve of Rosh Hashanah also finds one in nine Spaniards
think that Israel should ‘disappear because it was established on Arab land’.
By Barak Ravid
A new poll by the Spanish government released on the eve of Rosh Hashanah in
Madrid shows that one in three Spaniards is anti-Semitic, maintaining negative
opinions about Jews. Another 46 percent had favorable views of Jews.
One in nine Spaniards, the survey found, supports the statement that “Israel
should disappear because it was established on Arab land.” Another 77 percent
disagree with the statement. The results of the study indicate that the major
cause of the rise in anti-Semitic feelings is Israel’s policy toward the
Palestinians in the territories.
The study follows poll results from 2008 and 2009 conducted by the
Anti-Defamation League and the Pew Research Center showing that close to half of
all Spaniards at the time held anti-Semitic views. The two polls designated
Spain an anti-Semitic country after finding that more than 35 percent of its
citizens held anti-Jewish views. Ironically, however, in the most recent poll,
34.6 percent of respondents expressed anti-Semitic views, thereby barely
escaping the anti-Semitic label according to that criterion. At an event at
which the new findings were released, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos
said the poll showed Spanish society is not anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.
The new poll, in which about 1,000 Spanish residents were questioned by phone,
was conducted by the Madrid-based Casa Sefarad-Israel (Spain-Israel House ),
which is affiliated with the Spanish Foreign Ministry and promotes ties between
Spain and Israel and world Jewry. The survey was conducted in April, before the
Israel Navy’s confrontation at the end of May with the Gaza-bound flotilla.
Anti-Semitic sentiment exists in Spain despite the absence of a sizable Jewish
community in the country since the Spanish Inquisition at the end of the 15th
century. Some 40,000 Jews currently live in the county of 40 million.
Senior Spanish government officials sought to soften the impact of the poll
results, noting that 54 percent of respondents hold negative views toward
Muslims. About 1.5 million Muslims live in Spain. .
Only Iran was viewed less favorably than Israel in the poll results. Moratinos
and leaders of the Spanish Jewish community attributed the rise in anti-Semitic
sentiment in Spain to the anti-Israel stance of most of the Spanish media. In
contrast, however, 67 percent of respondents equally blamed Israel and the
Palestinians for the conflict between them, and about 83 percent said Jews are
entitled to live in peace and security in Israel once its borders are recognized
by the international community.
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