Israel makes official complaint to Spain about anti-Semitism in Spanish schools

Israel makes official complaint to Spain about anti-Semitism in Spanish schools
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By h.b. - Feb 28, 2010 - 8:23 PM
The Israeli Embassy in Madrid has been receiving letters written by Spanish children

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Israel has made an official complaint to Spain about alleged anti-Semitism in Spanish schools. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Naor Gilón, made the complaint to the Spanish Ambassador in Tel Aviv, Álvaro Iranzo. He claimed that the Israeli Embassy in Madrid had received letters from children accusing the Israeli’s of killing children.

Dozens of postcards have been received from children aged 5 or 6 including phrases such as ‘Jews kill for money’ and ‘Leave the country for the Palestinians’.

El Mundo reports that the conversation was ‘in the tone of a protest, although correctly presented’.

Juan Barba from the Spanish Embassy commented that they did not know which children had written the letters of from which schools, but they have opened an investigation. He did not know either whether the children had written the letters by themselves, or if there had been a teacher encouraging them, which would, he said, be more serious.

A source at the Spanish Foreign Ministry told the newspaper ‘Haaretz’ that it was an organised campaign outside the education system.

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