https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Letters thrown from death trains, tiny children's shoes, a Nazi gas mask... Hundreds of objects from Auschwitz are going on display in Madrid as a roving exhibition on the Nazi extermination camp opens. https://www.thelocal.es/20171130/holocaust-exhibition-comes-to-madrid Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:27:23 +0100 holocaust-exhibition-comes-to-madrid Several Israeli passengers on an Iberia flight to Tel Aviv were unpleasantly surprised when the Spanish pilot's announced "Welcome to Palestine" as they landed. https://www.thelocal.es/20151030/lost-in-translation-iberia-in-palestine-rumpus Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:00:29 +0100 lost-in-translation-iberia-in-palestine-rumpus Spain public radio RNE said it had removed an episode of a programme that linked Jews to Satanism from its website after receiving complaints from Jewish groups. https://www.thelocal.es/20150828/spanish-public-radio-pulls-programme-on-jews-and-satanism-after-outcry Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:46:26 +0200 spanish-public-radio-pulls-programme-on-jews-and-satanism-after-outcry A tiny northern Spanish town that for centuries has been named after a Jewish massacre has now officially been renamed to something much less ominous. https://www.thelocal.es/20150622/spains-jew-killer-town-finally-changes-name-spanish-inquisition Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:10:03 +0200 spains-jew-killer-town-finally-changes-name-spanish-inquisition A controversial writer is facing legal action from Madrid's Jewish community after writing an opinion piece in a leading Spanish daily in which he justified the expulsion of Jews throughout history on the basis that they aren't made to "coexist". https://www.thelocal.es/20140729/madrid-jews-sue-antisemitic-writer Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:59:00 +0200 madrid-jews-sue-antisemitic-writer The residents of the tiny Spanish town of Castrillo Matajudíos, or Castrillo 'Jew Killer' on Sunday voted to change the name of the village and lay the ghosts of their past to rest. https://www.thelocal.es/20140527/spains-jew-killer-town-opts-for-name-change Tue, 27 May 2014 16:48:00 +0200 spains-jew-killer-town-opts-for-name-change Jewish associations in Spain's Catalonia region have filed an official complaint after nearly 18,000 anti-Semitic messages were posted on Facebook and Twitter in response to Israeli basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv's victory over Real Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20140520/spains-jews-condemn-anti-semitic-twitter-storm Tue, 20 May 2014 16:34:00 +0200 spains-jews-condemn-anti-semitic-twitter-storm The mayor of Castrillo Matajudíos, or Castrillo 'Jew Killer' in English, is calling for his tiny Spanish village to be renamed after something less representative of its dark past. https://www.thelocal.es/20140414/jew-killer-village-spain-inquisition-matajudios Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:48:00 +0200 jew-killer-village-spain-inquisition-matajudios