Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez speaks at the top of a meeting in 10 Downing Street in London, on September 3, 2025 with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (unseen).
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His administration has also been scolded for putting Spain’s interest below that of the Palestinian cause.
Spain’s Socialist government has become so hateful of Israel that it is willing to shoot itself in the foot to do it harm.
Documents released on Monday revealed that Pedro Sánchez’s administration has cancelled a contract worth nearly 700 million euros for Israeli-designed rocket launchers. This is part of a wider Spanish ban on military equipment sales or purchases with Israel.
Author Hen Mazzig said the move saw the Socialists “risking their own security to punish Israel for defending itself against Hamas,” and asked: “Where’s the logic?”
Dorina Molnár, who is the Managing Director of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, also wrote in europeanconservative.com on Tuesday that the European Union more broadly is putting “ideology first” in its approach to Israel, “trumping competitiveness.”
Reports on this cancellation came at the same time as Sánchez said Israel—whose war against Hamas he compared to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—must be barred from international sports competitions “until the barbarity ceases.”
¿Por qué se expulsó a Rusia tras la invasión de Ucrania y no se expulsa Israel tras la invasión de Gaza?
Nuestra posición es clara y rotunda: hasta que no cese la barbarie, ni Rusia ni Israel deben estar en ninguna competición internacional más. pic.twitter.com/QlXsnWVKs5
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar responded in a hard-hitting statement that the Spanish prime minister was “an antisemite and a liar.”
Did Israel invade Gaza on October 7th or did the Hamas terror state invade Israel and commit the worst massacre against the Jews since the Holocaust?
Sánchez and his Communist government are antisemites and enemies of the truth.
Writer Lahav Harkov added that “Gaza invaded Israel on October 7th, 2023, not the other way around. Were you asleep that morning?”
Sánchez’s Socialist friends in France are behaving just as badly towards Israel, calling for Palestinian flags to be flown from French town halls on the day President Emmanuel Macron formally recognises a Palestinian state, which happens to be the day that Rosh Hashanah—or, the Jewish New Year—begins.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
