{"id":426911,"date":"2025-09-15T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426911\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:32:11","slug":"spain-pm-praises-public-stand-for-palestine-urges-global-sports-boycott-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426911\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain PM praises public stand for Palestine, urges global sports boycott of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro-S\u00e1nchez, has urged sports bodies worldwide to bar Israel from international competitions for as long as its \u201cbarbarism\u201d in Gaza continues, warning that high-profile events must not be used to \u201cwhitewash\u201d its offensive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">His remarks came on Monday, a day after mass pro-Palestinian protests in Madrid forced the abrupt cancellation of the final stage of La Vuelta, Spain\u2019s premier cycling race. Organizers scrapped the podium ceremony as police reported 22 officers injured and two arrests amid clashes along the route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">S\u00e1nchez, who expressed \u201cdeep admiration\u201d for peaceful demonstrators, said the debate over Israel\u2019s place in global sport should \u201cspread to all corners of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He has previously criticized \u201cdouble standards\u201d on Ukraine and Gaza, and earlier called for Israel\u2019s exclusion from the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Gideon-Sa\u2019ar, took issue with S\u00e1nchez\u2019s comments, alleging they encouraged unrest and referring to his government as \u201ca disgrace to Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This comes amid Israel\u2019s nearly two-year war in Gaza, where local authorities report almost 65,000 Palestinian deaths since October-2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro-S\u00e1nchez, has urged sports bodies worldwide to bar Israel from international competitions for as long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,2194,837,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-426911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-gaza","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115209748217855404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}