Three elderly Israeli-Jewish women, wearing Stars of David and carrying an Israeli flag, were expelled from the Reina Sofía National Museum of Art in Madrid on Sunday.
The women – one of whom is a Holocaust survivor – were verbally harassed by some of the visitors who shouted “Genocide!” “Child killers” and “Murderers!” Some visitors also said they were “disturbed” by the three women’s presence. Instead of removing the other visitors, the museum staff asked the women to leave.
A Spanish woman who was accompanying the three Jewish ladies recorded the incident. The video shows her arguing with the staff member over his attempt to make them leave, telling him that they were doing nothing illegal – and that under Spanish law, the museum could not lawfully kick the women out.
The guard continued to say that t
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