The massacre and material destruction perpetrated by the Israeli army in Gaza are so enormous that they have changed the current perception of the State of Israel, created after the Holocaust, worldwide. It has gone from victim to executioner; it is committing suicide, as the suspicious gene Thomas Friedman wrote. If this is true even among those who continue to support the existence of the State of Israel and its right to defend itself, how will it be among those who for years have made the Palestinian headscarf the ultimate symbol of progressivism in their local political activity?
This is the case of Ada Colau and the video that the Comuneros (Common People's Party) posted online on Sunday. The camera followed the former mayor of Barcelona as she walked smiling down the open aisle amidst the crowd, greeted, hugged, kissed, applauded, cheered, and venerated on both sides. It was a personal video more of a candidate than of an international aid worker in a drama of tens of thousands of deaths and millions of displaced people.
We're far from the days when Franco was "the friend of Islam" (you'll find it said that way, literally, in the No-Do) and the anti-Franco opposition was part of the "Judeo-Masonic conspiracy," while the left went to work in the kibbutzim voluntarily. Now history has turned upside down and an international flotilla leaves Barcelona to confront Israel. It's an unequal confrontation with a perfectly imaginable ending, but it doesn't matter, because what counts is the intention. And, hours later, The flotilla returns to port due to rough seas and the cheers have given way to laughterAnd in the acclamations and the mockery, all the impulses are mixed, which are the material used by political communication today, constantly in need of argumentative fuel in the form of good and bad.
