My Jewish friends are torn, I would say quite disoriented (although they would deny this) and immersed in varying degrees of fury and despair. One of those friends, a very intelligent Latin American who has lived in Spain for many years, told me two days ago that he is thinking of leaving this country because he can't stand our anti-Semitism anymore.

There is an anti-Semitic tradition in Spain. We have been discriminating against them since Roman times, and then also with the Visigoths, and with the Arabs of the Taifa kingdoms.