Spain can’t seem to quit its antisemitic campaign against Israel. The pattern is clear: They joined the ICJ case against Israel of genocide. They honored notorious antisemite Francesca Albanese. And now they are boycotting Eurovision 2026 over Israel’s participation in the contest.

Spain joined Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia in withdrawing from Eurovision 2026, protesting what it calls Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, continuing the vicious blood libel against Israel that has resulted in a massive spike in antisemitic rhetoric and violence against Jews all around the world.

Spain is one of the “Big Five” nations whose broadcasters are the biggest financial backers of the Eurovision contest, but it warned it would withdraw if Israel were allowed to compete.

José Pablo López, president of the board of Spain’s state broadcaster, issued a statement explaining the move.

“As joint organizers of the Eurovision song contest, we share a collective responsibility,” he said self-righteously. “While Israel has regularly participated in the competition, the current events and the genocide currently taking place make it impossible for us to look the other way.”

But no one does virtue-signaling self-righteousness better than Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

“This year we will not be at Eurovision, but we will do so with the conviction of being on the right side of history,” he wrote smugly on X. “For consistency, responsibility and humanity.”

It would be interesting to see these two moral giants confronting the facts and explaining how they fit with their conception of genocide.

The facts are these:

• No military has ever warned a population before striking as extensively as Israel’s military, with millions of leaflets, cell phone texts and calls. Millions. And no other military has sacrificed the military advantage of surprise by publishing maps of their movements ahead of time.
• By the end of the second year of the war, Israel had facilitated one ton of aid per person into Gaza.
• The Biden administration warned the Israelis not to invade Rafah because it would take months to evacuate the civilian population. They did it in under two weeks, sending nearly a million civilians to the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, where they had set up temporary housing and field hospitals.
• Israel vaccinated nearly the entire child population of Gaza (over 90 percent) against polio during wartime.
• Israel destroyed 70 percent of Gaza’s buildings and 92 percent of its residential homes, without killing a correspondingly high percentage of Gazans. How is that possible without taking extraordinary care to prevent civilian harm?
• According to some estimates, Israel has dropped about 100,000 tons of munitions on Gaza. Not 100,000 bombs, but 100,000 tons of bombs. Taking the most inflated death count of 100,000 deaths that is even higher than the Hamas count, that’s one person per one ton of explosives. How on earth is it possible to kill only one person per one ton of explosives in an area as densely populated as Gaza without taking extraordinary care to prevent civilian harm?
• A genocide means the destruction of the members of a group as such. If the Israelis want to kill Arabs as such, why have they left alone Arabs in Israel, as well as the 3 million Arabs in the West Bank?
• Can a genocide be conducted without a single massacre? For example, horrific massacres were perpetrated during the Rwanda genocide. We know this because massacres in which civilians are rounded up for the purpose of mowing them down, or rampaging through villages, leave a ton of forensic evidence. So far, there is zero forensic evidence of a single massacre against Gazans by Israel in the entire duration of the war. War crimes, yes, as in every war. But no massacres.

So here’s a challenge to all the five countries: Read that list and explain how this is genocide.

If you countries are wrong, if that list proves that Israel is not only not committing genocide but has taken extraordinary care to prevent civilian harm, then you have engaged in a monstrous libel against Israel that has resulted in violence against Jews leading to death.

And history will judge you for that.