Passport Stamped with Word ‘jew’

The Spanish Consul in Stockholm smeared the word “Judio” (Jew) in large red letters in the passport of Romero Rothschild, a writer, diplomat and member of the Spanish noble family. The diplomat–who writes under the name of Jose de Tejada–showed a Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter his Spanish passport today. It had the word Judio on page three.

Rothschild said he called the attention of the press to the incident because “if this can happen to me as a diplomat, it can happen to anyone. It’s like going back to the days when Jews had to wear a yellow star on their lapels (in Nazi Germany.)” Rothschild said because he had travelled to Israel and had an Israeli customs stamp in his passport, he went to the Spanish Consul in Stockholm (where he was travelling at the time) for a new travel document–a routine matter for businessmen who travel to both Israel and Arab countries.

“When I handed him (the Consul) my old passport he wrote the word Judio on it. I suppose he did it out of wrath because I have written many books critical of the Spanish regime. We struggled and my passport was ripped. I did not get a new passport. I left Stockholm for Vienna to contact United Nations officials here who might be able to help me protest this action and make sure it did not happen to any more Jews. But they told me it would take months to get any action because of slow diplomatic channels.”