{"id":38381,"date":"2026-06-11T02:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/38381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:56:13","slug":"spain-reports-86-rise-in-antisemitic-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/38381\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain reports 86% rise in antisemitic incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antisemitic offenses in Spain<\/a> rose 86% last year amid the country\u2019s highest total hate incidents on record, according to a report from the Spanish government.<\/p>\n

Jews were targeted in 69 hate crimes and incidents in 2025, up from 37 in 2024, according to a report released last week by Spain\u2019s Interior Ministry. Islamophobic attacks also increased from 15 to 35 incidents.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said in a video posted on Facebook that his office documented 2,417 total hate incidents<\/a> last year, the highest figure since it began recording in 2014. Spain is home to about 70,000 Jews, according to the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain.<\/p>\n

The ministry defined antisemitism as any act of hatred, violence or discrimination directed against Jews or \u201cnationals of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a> has become one of Europe\u2019s sharpest critics of Israel<\/a> and its military action in Gaza, which he says constitutes genocide. Spain imposed a total arms embargo on Israel in 2025 and permanently withdrew its ambassador in March, following Israel\u2019s withdrawal of its ambassador to Spain in 2024.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry said hate crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia accounted for the largest number of offenses at 934. Grande-Marlaska called out \u201cpublic officials\u201d for rhetoric and policies that he said inflamed xenophobic sentiment.<\/p>\n

Grande-Marlaska released his report as Spain\u2019s far-right, anti-immigration Vox party advocates for a \u201cnational priority\u201d policy that favors Spaniards over others in access to public aid and benefits, such as subsidized housing and healthcare. Vox recently struck deals with the conservative People\u2019s Party to insert the \u201cnational priority\u201d clause into coalition agreements in the regions of Extremadura, Arag\u00f3n and Castile and Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe national priority is xenophobia,\u201d Grande-Marlaska said. \u201cIt is institutionalized xenophobia, protected and promoted by public officials who legitimize and amplify hate speech that, in the past, would have been condemned when it entered the public sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vox is strongly supportive of Israel, whose government has allied with the party despite a history of neo-Nazis in its ranks. Vox leader Santiago Abascal visited Israel in 2024 to show his support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after S\u00e1nchez recognized a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antisemitic offenses in Spain rose 86% last year amid the country\u2019s highest total hate incidents on record, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[668,18197,66,205,17],"class_list":["post-38381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-antisemitism","tag-diaspora","tag-europe","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}