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Related: About this forumSpanish party dismisses Holocaust remembrance as ‘Israeli propaganda’
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Similar resolutions had passed since 2010, but this time representatives of AGE refused to OK the draft resolution in the Council of Spokespersons ahead of a plenum vote, Pedro Gomez-Valades, president of the Galician Association for Friendship with Israel, told JTA. His association has issued a joint statement with FCJE, which is the umbrella group representing Spanish Jewish communities, in condemning the veto.
Before they reach the plenum, draft resolutions must be approved by the Galician parliaments Council of Speakers. But representatives of BNG and AGE to the Council have resisted approving a draft resolution on the Holocaust since January, according to Pedro Gomez-Valades, president of the Galician Association for Friendship. The press departments of AGE and BNG did not respond to JTAs request for comment.
Gomez-Valades told JTA he decided to make the matter public because weeks of talks have failed to change the positions of the representatives of the two parties. During these talks, party officials said they viewed Holocaust commemoration as part of Israeli propaganda, Gomez-Valades said. His organization and the FCJE umbrella group condemned the two parties in a joint statement earlier this month.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/22/3122836/report-spanish-party-vetoes-holocaust-ceremony-to-avoid-israeli-propaganda
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)that a lot of people in the world still hate Jews.
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... they only hate "Zionists".
I'm surprised to hear you say that anyone could have anything but warm and fuzzy thoughts about Jews.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)and tell me that they have lots of Jewish friends.
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... with all the denial I've seen here.
"I can't be an anti-Semite, I've seen 'Fiddler on the Roof' like six times!"
Wilms
(26,795 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_recognition#Position_of_Israel
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? - Hitler
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/hitler.html
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Israel did not seem to recognize the Armenian genocide until it was looking for a way to embarrass Turkey, which BTW was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel in 1949
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)though Wales and several Spanish regional governments do.
Pretty shameful that so many countries fail to call it what it was.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)It is not as extreme as in Poland or Hungary; but it is fairly common. I don't know enough about the different regions to know if Galicia is worse from that point of view than other parts of Spain.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)but still nothing like international outrage to change minds if not hearts
Holocaust remembrance is not Israeli propaganda
jessie04
(1,528 posts)nt