A veteran member of Spain’s senate, criticized Spanish leaders, the nation’s media and Spaniards in general for harboring anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic attitudes. “Anti-Zionism, anti-Israeli attitudes, anti-Semitism and justification of the Holocaust are a way of life in Spain,” Juan Jose Laborda, a seven-term senator, said during an appearance at Madrid’s Conservative synagogue, Congregation Bet-El.
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