And yes anti-semitism is widespread in Spain. It is a kind of ingrained cultural anti-semitism linked with Catholicism which is pervasive rather than the the hatred and political anti-semitism of the old school and Islamist far right.

HB’s wrong on both counts but his insistance to the contrary is telling. Can he really look himself in the mirror with a clear conscience?

You’re also a complete fucking moron.

Thus, while the world is busy remembering the Holocaust, other genocides take place in parts of the world that don’t interest educated white people. There’s no UN-mandated Memorial Day for those other massacres.

Alec, you’re just trying to win an argument.

And are you playing hopscotch?

I clearly criticized the Catalonian decision,

Which was also the point of the original post, making this a non-victory.

but also criticized the existence of the Holocaust Memorial Day as it stresses one genocide over others.

Hahahahahahahahahaha! You have still not specified what the planned events in Spain were. Hint, as far as I can see, it was merely a public event hosted by the city government. Holocaust Memorial Day is, for a British-based blogger like David, reasonable short-hand for commemorations founded around the U.N. decision.

It is this universal attitude which your comments here and elsewhere have always, and I mean *always* concerned.

Moron. Complete. Fucking.

Zionists are racists?

“Ironic that Catalunya should now be the region capitulating to the Caliphate when it was one of the few parts of Spain that originally repelled it in the first place.”

Yep this pretty much sums up the modern zionist- stirring up hatred of Muslims (capitualte to the Caliphate indeed) while complain about hatred of Jews

it would be wrong to (a) establish a day for certain selected genocides only, and (b) name that day after just one of those genocides. You’ve failed to comment on my idea that a Genocide Memorial Day would be much better.

A holocaust doesn’t apply just to the Nazi Holocaust. Look in your dictionary “a great or complete devastation or destruction, esp. by fire.” “any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.”

There’s no real antisemitism in Spain

Not when you dismiss the 50% of Spanish opinion that has negative opinions about Jews, which you dismiss as “valueless” and choose not to acknowledge.

You believe the rules for the Spanish HMD are the same as for the British HMD Foundation. But even if we accept that undocumented assertion of yours, it would be wrong to (a) establish a day for certain selected genocides only, and (b) name that day after just one of those genocides. You’ve failed to comment on my idea that a Genocide Memorial Day would be much better.

Finally, you don’t address my argument that despite all the Holocaust Museums & Memorials & Monuments that exist around the world, the international community has miserably failed even to stop genocides carried out with machetes. My thesis is that too much focusing on the Jewish genocide has made the world insensitive to other genocides.