A small town in Spain is finally embracing its Jewish history — but is any of that history true?
In Hervás, a rural hamlet of 4,000, an invented Jewish heritage has become a point of pride and a marketing tool
In Hervás, a rural hamlet of 4,000, an invented Jewish heritage has become a point of pride and a marketing tool
Although 140 countries and the United Nations have already recognized Palestine, most Western European countries had not
“It’s strange to foreigners,” said a server rushing plates and glasses to customers at a local tapas bar. “Here it’s normal.”
'I didn’t want to cancel the festival, but the price that we were being asked to pay was too high,' the owner of Cinemes Girona wrote in a letter to festival organizers
After Spain’s ambassador was summoned for a reprimand, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares summoned Israel’s ambassador to Spain
Sira Rego, who has a Palestinian father, also reposted a tweet that said the “entire Israeli diplomatic delegation must be expelled” from Spain
Today, most chuetas on Majorca talk openly and proudly about their Jewish heritage, marking a significant change after a history of humiliation, fear and secrecy that lasted hundreds of years
Ione Belarra, Spain’s acting social rights minister, called to “urgently suspend diplomatic relations with the state of Israel”
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