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"Whoever qualifies like this qualifies himself." Elías Bendodo has responded this Wednesday to the serious insults of Amparo Rubiales. The president of the PSOE of Seville said last Saturday on Twitter that Bendodo's speech "is really the speech of a Nazi Jew!"

The outburst of Rubiales responded to statements by the 'number three' of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had described Pedro Sánchez as a "cheat" for wanting "that Spaniards can not go to vote", in reference to the date chosen for the general elections, on July 23, in full summer vacation.


In his tweet, Bendodo calls for calm from his party colleagues: "In the PP, to ours: proposals and that moderation, common sense and sense of State prevail soon in a new Government of Spain."

From the PP they ask the PSOE to pronounce itself. "Are you going to keep in office a president of your party who calls a politician from another party a "Nazi Jew"?", say sources of the national leadership of the popular, who demand his "immediate" cessation.

It must be specified that Bendodo is Jewish, which adds a plus of intentionality to the insult of Rubiales. Calling a Jew a "Nazi" can be interpreted as a trivialization of the genocide carried out by Hitler's regime against the Jews of Europe during the course of World War II.

"Calling someone a Nazi distorts the criminal dimension of Nazism," said the Platform against Anti-Semitism, which has called Rubiales' comment "despicable" for "using the origin, tendencies, belonging, religion, etc., of an opponent to make political criticism."

Rubiales is not just any socialist. It is a historical of the PSOE that was second vice president of the Congress, national deputy for eight years, senator for seven and counselor of the first government of the Junta de Andalucía. But above all she has been a feminist reference of her political space.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain has issued a statement in which it "strongly condemns the anti-Semitic attack of Amparo Rubiales against Elías Bendodo".

This institution, which officially represents Spanish Jews, assures that "it is anti-Semitism since Bendodo's Jewish origin is pointed out when no other politician is identified with his origin or religion."

"Beyond political differences, it is intolerable and despicable to use the origin, tendencies, belonging or religion of an adversary to make a political criticism," the statement insists.

"We also reiterate that the use of terms that have to do with Nazism to compare people or situations of today, supposes the trivialization of one of the most criminal regimes in History," adds the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain.

  • PSOE
  • Luis Rubiales
  • PP
  • Europe
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Nadia Calviño
  • Government of Spain
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
  • Articles Juanma Lamet

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