ACOM discredits Quim Torra in his attempt to compare Zionism with the Catalonian independence movement
30 October 2019
-Quim Torra does not represent the legitimate aspirations of any ancient people: Catalonia has never been a nation and has always been an intrinsic part of Spain.
-The Catalonian independence movement is closer to the Palestinian movements with its rejection of legal and democratic methods and its inclination to social unrest.
-Any type of comparison between Catalonia and Israel is a great offence for the Jews in Spain.
The recent statements of Quim Torra on an Israeli television in which he expressed sympathy for and identification with the State of Israel is nothing but a crude attempt to seek international support for the false narrative on which is based the Catalonian independence movement. Itis the old strategy of comparing false narratives to legitimate movements of national self-determination to seek the comparison of their causes and thus the collective imagination automatically adopts the legitimacy of its movement.
Like all political movements based on a false premise, in this case the fact is that Catalonia never was a people different to the rest of the Spanish population, its inclination towards the manipulation of the media and the abuse of academic indoctrination are common denominators. This type of behaviour is the result of his lack of respect for democratic values, political pluralism, and the rule of law, which reminds us of the Palestinian movements that also try to internationalise the conflict and to violently blackmail the disoriented youth.
But still more alarming is when who says he admires Israel is intrinsically related to the most furious anti-Semite movements in Catalonia and is one of the most violently anti-Israeli characters in Europe. You don’t have to investigate much to know the racist behaviour of Torra, and it is striking that it is precisely a renown xenophobe who talks of having any sympathy for Israel, a country that includes many of the descendants of the victims of supremacism in Europe, which is a refuge for persecuted minorities of all the Middle East and an example of protecting the rights of the different communities that coexist in the Jewish State.
The problem of Torra is that he does not represent any ancient people, no legitimate, age-old aspiration of rebuilding a national reality, no community mistreated to the point of genocide, nor any nation acknowledged by the UN and the international community. He has built a lie he wants to become a reality by manipulation, violence, contempt for the Constitution, and harassment of those who do not think like them.
Torra is not Ben Gurion, and his cause is as fraudulent and ignoble as his attempts to warm up to a country that is a friend of Spain. Israel has made it formally clear that it only recognises one united Spain, and that it is not an accomplice of those who want to destroy our democracy and social coexistence.
