Three elderly Jewish ladies, one of them a Holocaust survivor, were ejected from a Spanish art museum after some non-Jewish Spaniards in the museum at the same time were upset by their presence. It was apparently too much for those Spaniards to bear seeing Jews, and apparently not just Jews, but “genocidal” Israelis, taking pleasure in their visit to the museum. They cursed the three ladies, one of whom wore a Star of David, while another carried a tiny Israeli flag. Museum authorities, instead of rushing in to protect the victims from those harassing them, instead kicked the three Jews, not their tormentors, out of the building. More on this nauseating display of antisemitism in Spain, which for the last few years has led Europe in its embrace — from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on down — of Jew-hatred, can be found here: “Madrid Museum Launches Investigation After Jewish Women Harassed, Kicked Out,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, February 18, 2026:
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition in 2026, but watch Spain’s shame, as three elderly tourists, including a Holocaust survivor, are harassed & kicked out of Madrid’s state run Reina Sofia museum over Jewish symbols. Staff said visitors were ‘disturbed’ by their presence and… pic.twitter.com/XdAlSlfKzd
— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) February 16, 2026
A national art museum in Madrid has launched an investigation after three elderly Jewish women — including a Holocaust survivor — who were verbally harassed over their openly displayed Jewish symbols were subsequently forced to leave, fueling criticism that the institution sided with the perpetrators rather than protecting the victims.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Museum Reina Sofía told multiple news outlets that the institution would “immediately launch an independent and transparent internal investigation to clarify what happened,” formally confirming the opening of a probe as scrutiny over the incident intensified.
“The museum wishes to unequivocally express its commitment to equality, religious freedom, and zero tolerance for any type of violence or discrimination related to antisemitism,” the statement read. “The museum’s staff is highly qualified in fundamental rights, conflict management, and the prevention of any type of discrimination.”
“Once again, we would like to highlight the importance that Jewish artists, patrons, and benefactors have had for the institution and its collection, especially in the avant-garde, without whose selfless collaboration the museum as we know it today would be inconceivable,” it continued. “For all these reasons, we will not rest until the unfortunate events that have taken place are clarified.”…
It turns out that Spanish Jews have been generous donors both of art works and money to the Museo Reina Sofia, which makes the mistreatment of these ladies still more offensive.
Rather than intervening against the instigators, museum officials expelled the Israeli women, telling them to leave because “some visitors were disturbed that they are Jewish.”
At that point, of course, the museum officials ought to have told those antisemites who were so “disturbed” by the mere sight of the three Jewish women to leave. Instead, they told the three Jewish women to leave. Those museum officials ought now to be investigated, and those found responsible for such a grotesque decision should be reprimanded and perhaps demoted, or even discharged. Furthermore, the Spanish museumgoers who harassed those elderly ladies should, if possible, be found out and banned for life, not just from the Museo Reina Sofia, but also from other Spanish museums, including the Prado.
A security guard also told the group to hide their Jewish symbols, insisting they could not be displayed inside the museum.
I wonder if that security guard had ever told other visitors who arrived wearing crosses that they would have to keep from displaying them while in the museum. I doubt it. I am sure it is only Jews who are to be prohibited from wearing any symbols of their identity.
Even though one of them pointed out that Spanish law allows people to wear religious symbols and carry national flags in public institutions, they were still forcibly removed from the building despite not breaking any rules.
Those breaking the law were those museum officials who booted out those ladies, who were only exercising their rights under Spanish law to “wear religions symbols and carry national flags in public institutions.” If the state is to charge anyone with breaking the law, it should be those museum officials.
Thanks to the museum officials’ mistreatment of three Jewish visitors by kicking them, and not those harassing them, out of the museum, it is likely that the lawsuit against the museum will prevail; payments to the plaintiffs could be made, and those members of the museum staff held responsible for their mistreatment could be fired. That should include the head of the museum, Manuel Segade, because of the museum’s longstanding practice of “engaging in discrimination” and “promoting narratives of hate” against both Israel and the Jewish-Israeli community. The museum has been until now in the hands of anti-Israel activists, who have put on political displays that have nothing to do with art, such as one entitled “From The River To The Sea,” that made the case for destroying Israel and replacing it with a 23rd Arab state. This latest outrage — the forcible removal of three elderly Jewish ladies from the museum for daring to openly display signs of their Jewish identity that “disturbed” other, non-Jewish visitors, who then harassed them — is the last straw. A world of woe now awaits the Museo Reina Sofia.
Tony says
Leftists and Islam’s Muslims are totalitarian partners against Jews, Christians, and Non-Muslims using discrimination, violence, and terrorism to help them gain more government money, more political power, and more government control. Plus, Islam’s Muslims make Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprises via their Homes, their Mosques, their Schools, their Islamic Centers, their Courts, etc. against all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for satanic Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 4:89; 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88; 45:18; 47:4; 60:4, etc.). ISLAM IS A WAY OF LIFE, THE DAILY PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC LAW(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51,101; 5:48, etc.). Islam and its Muslims, enemies of Non-Muslims, are a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO).
Allah describes Muslim women in Jenna, Allah’s Paradise, as whores of Allah in Qur’an 56:37. Also, Deceitful Allah stirs hatred, cursing, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55.
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” As evidenced by continuous Muslim attacks, Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Again, Islam is a civilization-destroying, totalitarian, and supremacist system of lies and deceit because Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit as taught in Islam’s Qur’an. Muslims under Islam’s system of deceit are more easily controlled because there is no foundation for truth in Islam. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
Dan says
I have travelled in Spain several times and really enjoyed the traditional Spanish culture. But it looks as though their political leadership, like Britain’s, have betrayed the people and the culture. I am thinking I would like to travel in Europe less and less.
James Lincoln says
Good thing that there is video.
Hopefully, a huge lawsuit – along with firing of staff.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Being antisemitic is in Spain’s DNA. From Ferdinand & Isabella to today (although I’ve read that during WWII, Gen Franco did give refuge to some Jews fleeing Nazi occupied Europe)
Hugh Fitzgerald says
I spent several months in Spain when Franco was in the pre-coma period of his existence. He never provided Jews escaping from the Nazis with refuge. He did allow 10-20,000 Jews to move through Spain to Portugal, where conditions were better for Jews than in either Spain or in Occupied France. And some of those Jews managed to take flights from LIsbon to America, just as Victor Laszlo and his ravishing wife Ilse did.. After World War II, the Generalissimo welcomed assorted Nazis, including wanted war criminals, into the country. .Franco was.a deep-died anitsemite; he believed in a Jewish-Bolshevik-Masonic conspiracy. While I was there a mass was said by members of Madrid’s German colony for Adolf Hitler. Apparently it was done every year. I assume the practice stopped when Franco, taking his own sweet time about it, finally died.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hugh
Thanks for this clarification. I read what I wrote above decades ago in the Economist, which wrote one of its whimsical articles about historical figures who are unfairly tarred, and it included Franco among them. Interestingly enough, it considered Oliver Cromwell, of all figures, as being beyond redemption
ploome says
Spain, France, Germany England, etc…
baked into their culture for almost 2 millennia
Jules Isaac
https://julesisaacstichting.org/a-short-introduction-to-jules-isaac/
Daniel Bielak says
Thanks for that link, ploome.
ploome says
my pleasure
“On June 13, 1960, the French Jewish historian Jules Isaac had a private audience with Pope John XXIII.
[…]This meeting is generally credited with being a major impetus for the pope’s decision to direct Cardinal Augustin Bea, on September 18, 1960, to draft a declaration on the Catholic Church’s relationship to the Jewish people for the upcoming Second Vatican Council. This was the genesis of what would become Nostra Aetate. The following notes were written by Jules Isaac shortly after the audience. They were published in The SIDIC Journal 1968/3 and are available courtesy of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion.”
jerry glenn says
Spain surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
ploome says
lol
it’s a tight race
wonder why they all seem to prefer muslims?
OLD GUY says
Maybe the Spaniards like the macho man belief of Islam. Women are for the taking nine years old and up. If they complain you get to beat them or honor kill them. Real Macho.
somehistory says
The term “dead heat” seems appropriate.
ploome says
yes, sure seems like it