Madrid deputy mayor hosts event in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists

A deputy mayor of Madrid hosts an event honoring Palestinian terrorists from Hamas and other groups who are imprisoned in Israel.

The event, titled “International Day of Palestinian Prisoners,” is hosted Monday at the main municipal space of the district of Retiro in the southeastern part of the center of the Spanish capital and draws harsh condemnations from representatives of the city’s Jewish community, the Libertad daily reports Tuesday.

A poster advertising the event lists Deputy Mayor Mauricio Valiente of the Izquerda Unida far-left party first among four speakers, introducing him by his municipal title and as an expert on human rights.

Another speaker, introduced as a “television journalist and Palestinian former political prisoner,” is Mus’ab Muhammad Nimr Bashir, a 36-year-old Gaza native who has admitted to using his position in 2007 with Doctors Without Borders to plan to assassinate an Israeli official together with other terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Another speaker, Ana Sanchez De Mera, is introduced as an activist for “the boycott on Israel.”

In a statement, the Jewish Community of Madrid writes that it “views with alarm and consternation” the use of public resources in support of “prisoners, many of whom are imprisoned and convicted in a viable and consolidated democracy of bloody acts of terrorism.”

— JTA