{"id":1335,"date":"2008-07-27T00:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T22:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2008-07-27T00:26:38","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T22:26:38","slug":"it-can-be-tough-to-be-jewish-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"It can be tough to be Jewish in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry that I don&#8217;t have time to translate <a href=\"https:\/\/spanish.martinvarsavsky.net\/espaaa\/es-dificil-ser-judio-en-espana.html\">this article<\/a> in my Spanish blog about how hard it can be to be Jewish in Spain.  Most of those who know me know I love Spain but one thing I can&#8217;t stand about Spaniards is how antisemitic they are.  Not only is Spanish press especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.es\">El Pais<\/a> extremely anti Israel (I have also been very critical of the policies of the State of Israel but not of its right to exist of course), but now <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/sociedad\/racismo\/cala\/aulas\/elpepusoc\/20080718elpepisoc_2\/Tes\">estar\u00eda poco o nada dispuesto<\/a>&#8220;>El Pais published a study that showed that 56% of Spanish school children said that they would not share school work with a Jew.  This is in a country that before 1492 had 10% of Jewish people but now Jews make 1 person in 3000 so most Spaniards have never met a Jew.  If you can understand the comments you will see of course that the other half, the half that is not antisemitic is very supportive and understanding of how hard it is to be Jewish in Spain but if you live in the UK, or USA and happen to understand Spanish you will be shocked about some of the comments both in my blog and in my blog in the leading online publication in Spain, <a href=\"http:\/\/foros.elmundo.es\/foros\/viewtopic.php?p=594090#594090\">El Mundo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1335\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry that I don&#8217;t have time to translate this article in my Spanish blog about how hard it can be to be Jewish in Spain. Most of those who know me know I love Spain but one thing I can&#8217;t stand about Spaniards is how antisemitic they are. Not only is Spanish press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}