Julia/29/Germany. Mostly just trashposting with some feminism, animals, science and fandoms strewn in. Great Northern War enthusiast. Idk I've been on here for too long, this site has ruined me. DNI Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, supporters! Yes, I'm a Slytherin. Ex-edgy teen. Unironically straight edge. If you need anything tagged, message me! I'll do my best about it. If you want to avoid seeing my blorbos please block 'max and karl', any post by me is tagged 'personal'. My inbox/IM is always open to all of you and I appreciate every message I get. It's to be seen if you appreciate my answer though.
man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
my YouTube homepage is... fascinating. recently I've seen quite a few vids recommended to me from gay men talking about how they're getting annoyed seeing so many femme presenting trans men calling themselves gay men on social media and showing up at gay bars when they usually just look like women with pixie cuts. these videos aren't from small channels either they typically have a couple-hundred thousand views, some of them in the millions.... and all I'm thinking is like: seriously?
I clicked on one and scrolled through the comments and one literally said this basically verbatim: "as a gay man, it greatly offends me seeing these random girls taking on my identity. they don't understand my experiences and they never can. I totally understand why so many women and lesbians have beef with trans women now." oh now you get it? it didn't matter before when the AGPs were larping as us and stealing our identities, but now that it's starting to affect you with the fujoshis showing up in your spaces you're starting to give a shit. ok, got it.
when a handful of lesbians started complaining about this like a decade ago they were silenced and laughed at. but now that the gay guys are being affected they're racking up views in the millions and getting praised for talking about this. cool. great. I love it here.
I don't know if you're the right person to be asking, but I was hoping you could help me out with a question. Just saw an article on a Spanish town that was named "Fort Kill the Jews" and how a Jewish family moving in was "greeted" with bigoted graffiti. It brought to mind some old comments I had heard from some Jewish people on here (I think), which is that Spain has a very long history of antisemitism. Like, such a bad history with the Jewish people that antisemitism is baked into their actual culture (the tons and tons of pork dishes was one of the examples I got when I asked.)
I was wanting to know if you could provide any background to that, or confirm if there is any truth to it. Obviously, there is antisemitism there, considering a town with that name not only exists, but was allowed to stand with that name for 400 years. But as for the sheer volume and history of Spain's antisemitism, I haven't been able to find anything that provides a clear answer when I've Googled it. Mostly, it just pulls up articles of this current event and nothing else.
TLDR: my question is, I guess, is Spain as steeped in cultural antisemitism as I've been told?
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
Spain has a long, long history of antisemitism, spanning not just from Christian rule but to even Muslim rule.
You may or may not have heard of the term "Sephardi Jews". Sephardi Jews are Jews who are descendents of those whose ancestors once made a home in the Iberian peninsula after the Jews were expelled from the land of Israel. "Sephardi" literally means "Spanish". Now, most Sephardi Jews today live in North Africa, West Asia, South West Asia, France, England, Israel, and the US. You may notice that Spain is not on the list. Why?
Well let me tell you about the Spanish Inquisition.
The Spanish Inquisition hit it's height in 1492, when the Alhambra Decree was enacted expelling all Jews and Muslims from Spain under the threat of death. Before that, Jews had slowly been being put in ghettos and restricted from public life across Spain.
But things didn't end once the Jews were purged in 1492. No, for the next few centuries, crypto-Jews, Jews who converted to Christianity but maintained their Jewish heritage, were persecuted and killed by the Spanish Inquisition. Many fled to the Americas and established communities in the Caribbean, South America, and Central America. But they still weren't safe from the Inquisition, because the Inquisition had control over the colonies as well. Many Jews died.
But there was antisemitism in Spain even before Christians took over. Jewish culture thrived in Al Andalus, but that doesn't mean antisemitism wasn't still a threat. Jewish people were at the mercy of whoever ruled at the time. Sometimes, they were friendly to the Jews. Sometimes, they weren't. And Jews were always subject to dhimmi laws which placed them as second-class citizens. Many people have heard of Samuel Ibn Naghrillah, the Jewish vizier and general to to King Badis Ibn Habus during the 10th century. He was regarded as one of the most influential Jews in Muslim Spain. But while he may have been able to attain great status despite his Dhimmitude, and was able to strengthen Jewish morale, there was still a lot of intense antisemitism within the people. When Samuel's son Joseph succeeded him, people let out their pent-up antisemitism. They were incensed that a Jew could hold such a high office. They crucified him on the city gates of Grenada, and massacred most of the Jewish population in the city.
But let's jump back to more recent times. During the Holocaust, Francisco Franco was the fascist ruler of Spain. While he may not have formally joined the Axis, he was a fascist and was sympathetic towards the Nazi movement. Under Franco, Jews were required to be registered to the government, and faced both governmental and social antisemitism.
And on a cultural level.....did you know that the reason Spanish food has so much pork and shellfish is because the Spanish would use it as a way to "sniff out" secret Jews and Muslims? Yeah. Let that sink in. It's that pervasive.
So yes, Spain is steeped in cultural and historic antisemitism.
This isn't just historical antisemitism, either. I was visiting Spain in 2017 with my mom, and (being Argentine Jews) we wanted to go to a lot of Jewish heritage sites in Spain. Mind you, Spain heavily markets itself as the "land of three cultures" (Christian, Muslim, and Jewish) and they make a bunch of tourism dollars off of that marketing.
We went to Jewish sites in Girona and Toledo, and later while I was traveling with a friend I saw some additional sites in CĂłrdoba and Seville. In Girona we went to the Nachmanides synagogue, which was the home synagogue of a really important rabbi from the 1200s. The synagogue has been turned into a "Jewish museum" and one of its notable exhibits consists of three separate rooms of Jewish tombstones. The museum inscriptions say they were "gifted" to the Spanish rulers of the area. This is an obvious lie, as this would be considered desecrating a grave. In no universe would a Jewish community give Jewish headstones to Christian overlords as a gift. This is an exhibit of violence, and it isn't even recognized as such. The other exhibit was about the Spanish inquisition. The whole museum was clearly talking about us without ever talking with us, designed to explain dead people's dead culture as told by their murderers. It's absolutely ghoulish to do this at all, let alone in a sacred space.
In Toledo one of the synagogues we saw is called Santa MarĂa la Blanca, which you might recognize as a fucking weird name for a synagogue. This is possibly the oldest standing synagogue building in Europe, and its name happened to it because it was stolen from the community during the pogroms of 1391 and turned into a Catholic church. The Catholic church *still owns this building* and *will not give it back*.
The Jewish quarter of Seville is barely visible anymore due to all of the pogroms. There's a sign up, and a section of a ghetto wall, and that's all that's recognizable anymore of this community.
The Jewish heritage sites in CĂłrdoba are much better, but clearly it's the outlier among all the rest of the Jewish quarters I saw. But I cannot stress this enough: the Spanish government desecrates and monetizes the corpse of its Jewish community all these centuries after expulsion. It's disgusting.
Iâd also like to add how Spanish antisemitism affected Mexican antisemitism:
Even before Spain conquered what is now Latin America, Jews fleeing the aftermath of the 1492 decree were obviously interested in travelling west if it meant escaping poverty and state-sanctioned antisemitism in IberiaâŠexcept that the official policy of the conquistadores was to execute anyone even rumoured of being a jew. And once the collection of mesoamerican city-states fell under Spanish control and became New Spain, Jews were effectively outlawed across the entire colony. The founder of Nuevo LeĂłn, LuĂs Carvajal, was a converso who was discovered by the inquisition, and his punishment was to languish away in jail (where he eventually died) while several members of his family were burned alive.
Iâve had several otherwise smart and nice people argue vehemently with me that the inquisition was not an antisemitic institution and that its purpose lay solely in ârooting out heretics.â
Throughout the entire colonial/viceroyalty period, it was effectively illegal to be jewish in New Spain, though a few families did manage to slip under the radar and live in relative peace. Bear in mind that socially, Jews were ranked near the bottom of the official caste system, and their entry to the country was barred.
The office of the inquisition remained in existence in Mexico until 1821, the year of its independence; even so, the short-lived government installed by Vicente Guerrero and AugustĂn de Iturbide (who later crowned himself emperor) espoused three main tenets, one of which was stating that Catholicism was to be the only recognised religion in mexico- A lot of his governance was based upon trying to prevent the liberal-minded reforms currently being enacted in a post-napoleon spain. Jews were not allowed citizenship until decades later when Benito JuĂĄrez started a series of reforms to liberalise the country (including stripping power and land from the church in a bid to formally separate church and state, a sore point for many hardcore catholics almost two centuries later) and grant people freedom of worship; the jewish community here regard him fondly but the catholic curch does not, and a common sentiment at the time was accusing JuĂĄrez of selling out to the Jews; conservative sentiments plotting to return mexico to spanish rule didnât really fizzle out until this period.
In fact, Jews werenât granted formal rights fully until the rule of Maximilian I, who not only explicitly wrote in reforms guaranteeing freedom of religion and expression, but who pushed to open the country to immigrants and refugees from all over the world, including Jews, which was frowned upon by his political opponents.
Official antisemitism related to spain wasnât even just restricted to the 19th century: president Cardenas was very keen on helping Spaniards flee the civil war and even personally helped organise transports for refugees, but took a dimmer view on Jews being allowed the same help and refused entry for several boats (despite raking the us ove the calls for doing the same thing) even as his ambassadors in Spain and Vichy France practically begged him to take action; this held true even though mexico officially broke relations with spain and didnât resume them until after Francisco Francoâs death.
If a Mexican flies the spanish flag outside of normal football fandom, is very committed to being a practicing catholic, talks a lot about their spanish ancestry if theyâre white, say mexico was better off as a spanish territory, and is a panista, itâs pretty much 110% guaranteed that not only are they an antisemite, but also a francoist with fascist sympathies.
I spent weeks in Spain while reading about its history. I learned a lot of appreciation for Juan Carlos, I thought Cordoba and Sevilla were particularly beautiful, and there was much I loved about Barcelona.
I did not volunteer to any strangers that I was a Jew - because I was reading about Spain's history.
If I'd done the reading in advance, I may not have gone at all.
It hasn't gotten any better. This is from the last couple weeks, June 10th, 2026.
The Spanish government said it documented the highest total hate incidents in 2025 since it began keeping records.
May 31st, 2026
Couple told 'Zionists' unwelcome; as they are forced out, Spanish woman repeatedly tells them 'Free Palestine'; local Jewish community deman
January 2026:
Community spokesperson links attack to map published by anti-Israel activists marking Jewish, Israeli sites; denounces 'despicable antisemit
Numerous Jewish organizations complained about the project, which listed more than 150 Jewish and Israeli institutions, saying it 'echoed th
Spain has a long history not only of Jew hatred, but of ridiculously denying that hatred exists.
Time to quote past me, in the context of someone unbelievably saying that the reason Spain is antizionist is because [n]ot only did [they] not participate [in World War Two] and they're not exactly going to teach us anything about fascism and its genocides and not because it's antisemitic:
letâs talk about spain.
letâs ignore the inquisition and pretend theyâve moved on.
letâs ignore how catholic they are.
(a history of catholic antisemitism: the dark side of the church, robert michael, pdf, 293 pages. holy hatred: christianity, antisemitism, and the holocaust, robert michael, pdf, 265 pages roots of hate: anti-semitism in europe before the holocaust, william i brustein, pdf, 402 pages.)
keep going.
EDIT: So, spain was antisemitic enough that I opened up enough tabs that I forgot theirâŠwonderful traditions:
(thatâs leon. incidentally, they are apparently accidentally self-aware enough that this is a local tradition:
also, in 2014 in the same province:
âno no no, itâs fine, we appropriated a symbol, too!â)
anyway, yeah. forgot about that amid the parade of judenhass
pedro
pedro, is this you?
PEDRO BE CONSISTENT (to be clear, both the article iâm quoting here and the one above are from april 2026)
so thatâs a double standard. anyway.
pedro�
pedro, you do realize that nuking israel wonât help, right? right??
to be clear, i think that itâs okay that the word is in there if itâs being used as such. pretending like people donât use it as insult does no one any good. but not flagging it as offensive and discriminatory isâŠnot.
commentary magazine, 1964:
(European Jewish Press)
WHAT FUCKING GENOCIDE
El Pais, a spanish newspaper of record, 2026:
translation:
despite.
despite.
A spanish-jewish website:
Spain: The Promised Land of the new antisemites?
From the same website, on the Museo Reina Sofia:
Essentially, in February of this year, a group of visitors, including some old Jewish women, were called, among other things, child killers. Instead of responding, staff asked the victims to *checks notes* be less Jewish or leave.
Meanwhile:
Well, theyâre going to be if France decides to copy youâŠthe incident, by the way:
ah yes, how disruptive.
2022:
anyway. 1940:
don'tcha love it when ferdinand and isabellaâs direct descendant steals our heritage back and says theyâre proud of the sephardic roots they dumped herbicides on for fucking centuries?
damn right heâs proud of the sephardic roots â heâs proud they didnât grow into anything, not in spain anyway.
* * *
this is after the six-day war. it was after the six day war that spanish jews could freely worship.
2024, adl:
well, the way youâre treating them i canât really blame âemâŠ
listening to CDs in the kitchen i always brace myself for the ad between songs but then it just keeps rolling. skipping around how i like without interruption feels heavenly. we're in such a commercial angst prison that books and CDs are luxury now đ
protect, pass on, thrift, gift, and store physical media, it's worth it
russians are striking kyiv and region with zircon hypersonic missiles. these are actually anti-ship missiles. what kind of ships are they targeting in kyiv? no ships. because they themselves measure zircon's accuracy in five-storey buildings
"the accuracy of the target is literally up to centimetres."
"centimetres? and this is true about zircon as well?"
"yes, zircon as well."
"so if there's a cross target, you can hit it like a sniper."
"practically, yes. if there is a five-storey building, and we target one of the entrances, if it won't hit this exact entrance, it will hit the next one for sure."
now-dead russian occupier on a russian state tv channel "zvezda"
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