Spain's Election: Vox, the PP and Their Ties to Israel

Spain's elections are in three weeks, and you can already see Israel's fingerprints all over it.

The polls say the right could take power.

Here's what Spain's right wing doesn't put on its posters.

On the twenty-eighth of May, twenty twenty-four, Spain recognized Palestine.

That same day, Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain's far-right party, Vox, was in Jerusalem shaking Benjamin Netanyahu's hand.

Netanyahu called Abascal's defense of Israel exemplary.

This is the man Spain could put into government on the twenty-ninth of November.

But it didn't start there. In December twenty twenty-three, as Gaza was being bombed, a Vox delegation sat down with two of Netanyahu's ministers, Amichai Chikli and Avi Dichter.

In May twenty twenty-four, Chikli flew to Madrid and spoke on Vox's stage.

In February twenty twenty-five, Israel's foreign minister ordered formal channels opened with Vox.

The same month, Netanyahu's party, Likud, was announced as an observer in Vox's European alliance, the Patriots.

And in January twenty twenty-six, Netanyahu welcomed two Vox members of the European Parliament, Jorge Buxadé and Hermann Tertsch, to Jerusalem.

When it came to stopping the weapons, only two parties voted against Spain's arms embargo on Israel: Vox and Spain's main conservative party, the PP.

In Europe, when the European Parliament voted on Gaza, Vox voted no.

While a UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Abascal blamed the killing on Hamas.

And even the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who called Israel's attacks atrocities, still blamed the war on Hamas.

In Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso of the PP, president of the Madrid region, went to Jerusalem to meet Israel's president.

And after the seventh of October, Madrid's city council, with PP and Vox votes, backed giving Israel the city's medal of honor.

No secret money needed. It's all in public: the handshakes, the stages, the votes.

PP is the party Spain's courts found profited from the Gürtel corruption network.

That ruling brought down Mariano Rajoy's government in twenty eighteen.

His interior minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, is now waiting for a verdict in the Kitchen case, accused of using the police to spy on the party's own former treasurer.

Prosecutors want fifteen years. He denies it.

When Spain canceled an order of Israeli bullets for the Civil Guard, Feijóo's answer was, "When a state concludes a contract with another state, it must be respected."

In January twenty twenty-six, Ayuso's digital minister flew to Tel Aviv to meet Israel's National Cyber Directorate and bring its model home to Madrid.

And in twenty twenty-five, Israel's government paid Google, YouTube, and X more than fifty million dollars to push its message on Gaza, including videos countering reports of starvation.

So expect this. The closer we get to the twenty-ninth of November, the harder Israel and the platforms it pays will push into your feed.

On election day, remember who stood with Netanyahu.

Let your Spanish friends know these people cannot be allowed to seize power and normalize genocide.

God bless.