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May 6, 2011
Spanish official gives first formal apology for Inquisition
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A Spanish official has given what is being heralded as the country’s first formal apology for the Inquisition’s killing of Jews.
On the island of Mallorca, where 37 Jews were killed in 1691 for secretly practicing Judaism, the regional president offered the apology at a May 5 memorial service in the city of Palma.
“We have dared to gather here to recognize the grave injustice committed against those Mallorcans who were accused, persecuted, charged and condemned to death for their faith and their beliefs,” the Balearic Islands regional president, Francesc Antich, told a crowd of 130, according to an Associated Press report.
Spain’s Jewish federation told reporters it may have been the first such government-sponsored event in Spanish history.
The ceremony was suggested by Michael Freund, chairman of Shavei Israel, an Israel-based nonprofit that seeks out “lost Jews” around the world, the AP reported. Freund said he hoped it would inspire similar ceremonies elsewhere in Spain.
When the Inquisition was launched in 1492, Spain’s Jews either left the country or converted to Catholicism. Many “conversos” continued to practice Judaism in secret, and were punished severely if caught.
On Mallorca, 82 conversos were condemned in 1691. Thirty four were publicly garroted, and their bodies were burned in bonfires. Another three, including a rabbi, were burned alive.
It is beleived that about 15,000 descendants of conversos live on Mallorca today. Almost all are Catholic.
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- Comment by Truth teller on 5/08/11 at 11:56 am
The language used in the mass media duplicates the language used by the Far Right propaganda before and during the Spanish Civil War holding “Jews” (or disguised as the “Neocons” today) responsible for the world financial crisis. http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/31929/sec_id/31929
- Comment by Truth teller on 5/08/11 at 11:59 am
It’s took, what, 520 years to apologize? I would think about forgiving them 520 years from now.
- Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/08/11 at 12:57 pm
El Pais, Spain’s flagship newspaper: “Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, not the Israelis. The Hebrew myths are false, and abuse of the weak is disgusting.” To whom a Jewish man with a hooked nose responds, “We are the people chosen by the God we ourselves invented.” http://gayandright.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-spain-so-anti-israel.html
- Comment by Truth teller on 5/08/11 at 2:30 pm
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- Comment by Truth teller on 5/08/11 at 2:35 pm
4/7/2011 Spain: The “Most Anti-Semitic Country in Europe” http://www.hudson-ny.org/2020/spain-anti-semitic
- Comment by Truth teller on 5/08/11 at 2:39 pm
They should take their apology and shove it up their ass.
- Comment by Bill Pearlman on 5/08/11 at 10:49 pm
Mnay theories have King of Spain Juan Carlos at the center of many global conspiracies. He is seemingly irrelevant and not reported, but he is somehow involved in meeting all kinds of world leaders and politicians in Spain for no apparent reason. This apology may just be a tactic to lay the groundwork to involve King JC in Israel’s business in a more overt fashion.
- Comment by Ben Plonie on 5/08/11 at 11:19 pm
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