The Embassy of Israel in Spain it has launched a release through his X account, formerly Twitter, in which he shows his “total rejection to the false accusation spread by some ministersintellectuals and the media”, in reference to the letter that the Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduyhas sent to Spanish companies with interests in Israel.
In the published document, the organization points out that “the demonization and delegitimization of Israel gives wings to Hamas and those who pursue the disappearance of the Israeli state.” Furthermore, they make it clear that these types of statements “are a clear incite hatred and encourage anti-Semitism“.
Immediately afterwards, the Israeli embassy, ​​with Rodica Rodian-Gordon front, asserts that this type of actions contrast with “the incomprehensible silence from Spain and the majority of intellectuals and human rights organizations before the drama of the 132 kidnapped that remain in the hands of Hamas terrorists.
In the letter sent by Bustinduy, the minister to the companies that do not contribute to exacerbating the situation in Gaza, which he has described as “genocide.” In this regard, he urges them to take measures to ensure that they do not contribute to “the flagrant violations of Human Rights that the State of Israel is being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the Gaza Strip, against the Palestinian population.
The Foreign Ministry, for its part, has disavowed Bustinduy’s words by emphasizing that they were not aware of this initiative. “This is the first news we have of that letter,” diplomatic sources have indicated, which They have described Israel as a “friendly state of Spain.”
This is not the first time that the Government of Spain has had tensions with the Israeli Embassy over statements regarding the war in Gaza. In November of last year, the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu already temporarily removed the organization after the president of the Executive, Pedro Sanchezwill assure that “with the images we are seeing and with the increasing number of victims, especially boys and girls who are dying, I have Frank doubts that (Israel) is complying with international humanitarian law“.
