In a shockingly ignorant tweet, Óscar Puente Santiago, the Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility in Spain, called on Spanish “patriots” to stand with Vueling against the “Israeli brats” at the center of a controversy over anti-Semitism on a flight to Paris.
Why?
Calling Jews “Israelis” or “Zionists” may play well to a xenophobic base, but what a crass mistake, the sort of mistake that gets to the heart of his worldview and exposes a shocking level of bias.
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