Overview
- The Assembly of Madrid hosted its annual Holocaust remembrance led by the Comunidad Judía de Madrid, with survivors, the El Malé Rajamin prayer and a six-candle lighting, in a ceremony presided over by Enrique Ossorio.
- Regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso warned that totalitarian movements seek to install hatred of Israel and the Jewish people and said antisemitism now operates “with other disguises.”
- Ayuso cited messaging in universities and media, cultural events and the boycott of sporting spectacles, referencing protests that disrupted the Vuelta a España stage finish in Madrid.
- Israeli chargé d’affaires Dana Erlich compared current patterns in Spain to Germany in 1939 and stated that anti‑Zionism constitutes a form of antisemitism, listing vandalism, intimidation and broad boycott calls.
- Representatives from PP, PSOE and Vox attended while Más Madrid stayed away as in prior years, drawing criticism from PP’s Carlos Díaz Pache, and participants included students and survivors before an audience of roughly 200 people.