Now, in a modern echo of that shameful past, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the expulsion of Israel—not from Iberia this time, but from the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sánchez declared that just as Russia was banned for invading Ukraine, so too should Israel be banned over its war with Hamas. He accused the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) of “double standards,” aligning Spain “with Ukraine and Palestine.”

This isn’t just a political jab at Israel; it’s a public, symbolic expulsion of the Jewish state from a major European platform. And it comes with disturbing historical resonance. Spain, which once drove out its Jews under the guise of religious purity, is now targeting the world’s only Jewish country under the guise of progressive values.