At the same time as promoting a mass boycott of Israel over the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza, Spain’s Socialist government joined four other E.U. member states last week in opposing proposals emanating from Brussels to restrict visas for Russian nationals, due to the Moscow regime’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Spain is content to demonize Israel for fighting a war triggered by a grotesque pogrom while indulging wealthy Russians spending their ill-gotten gains on a beach vacation, even as their armed forces pound civilian targets, abduct Ukrainian children and threaten the security of Poland.

“Hypocrisy” is an accurate descriptor, but it doesn’t quite encapsulate the unctuous nature of the Spanish stance. The country’s double standard isn’t simply the consequence of a strategic calculus

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