Dec
21
JTA Reports: Francisco Vasquez, a member of the Socialist Party, a former mayor of La Coruna and a past ambassador to the Vatican, told Televisión de Galicia last week that there was “no difference between a Jewish yellow star used by the Nazis and a child punished for speaking Catalan Castilian in the schoolyard.”
Socialist Party politicians from both sides of the linguistic divide strongly condemned the comments.
On Thursday, leaders of Catalonia’s autonomous government agreed to form a new government and hold a referendum on independence in 2014, maintaining a push for autonomy that poses a major challenge to Spain’s central government.
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