Fixed gear. Genocide. Cartoon of 15/09/2025 in CTXT
Sunday saw the end of La Vuelta and, as expected, the organisers had to cancel the final stage due to protests against the participation of the Israel-Premier Tech team and Israel's genocide in Gaza. According to the Government Delegation in Madrid, some 100,000 people took part in the protests.
The one who also did not finish the race was Oscar Guerrero, sporting director of Israel Premier Tech, who, according to media reports, reportedly dropped out of the competition a few days ago, although the news came out later.
The political clashes began before the last stage of the race after Pedro Sánchez made a statement in which he showed "respect" for the cyclists in the Vuelta and "admiration" for the mobilisation for Palestine. Even though he was too late and too soft to take a strong stance in favour of cutting off relations with Israel in any area, with a couple of words he managed to snatch some last-minute embers for his sardine, provoking right-wing tantrums and a response from Israel through the mouth of its foreign minister, Gideon Saar, who said:"Sánchez and his government: shame on Spain!
Yet, despite the expected heavy police deployment, with BMR armour, helicopters and some 1500 officers, and some of its many dangerous sociopaths going all out to beat up people for free, police unions charged that they had been prevented from securing the stage for "political expediency".
After weeks of arguing about the nonsense that you can't mix sport with "politics" and criminalising protests against the extermination of the population and in defence of human rights in Palestine, the Popular Party left headlines that will haunt them forever.
One of those shameful pages was written by the mentally indigent José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who denied the existence of genocide in Palestine with the lowest arguments of the average intellectual inane and continued to tour the media repeating the same rubbish.
For Almeida, there is no genocide in Gaza"because the genocide was that of the Jewish people during World War II".
Almeida: "For me there is no genocide in Gaza, I don't like what I am seeing but there is no genocide. I don't like what I'm seeing but there is no genocide. And do you know why I think there is no genocide? Because the genocide was the genocide of the Jewish people during World War II." https://t.co/9PklVsFVPB pic.twitter.com/H6IlbbI2wT
- Europa Press (@europapress) September 8, 2025
You have to be a very bad person or a very redneck, or both, to deny the systematic extermination of the civilian population of Palestine where more than 63,000 people have already been killed,(28 children every day), and where a quarter of a million are at risk of malnutrition due to the famine provoked and used by Israel as a weapon of war, and then try to make us believe that genocide is just a word that does not apply. Or worse, a kind of trademark that is the exclusive property of Israel and therefore cannot be reproduced in any other time and/or context. Absurd, whichever way you look at it.
He then ran to victimise himself, claiming that he was being harassed on networks after saying that there is no genocide in Gaza. Perhaps he should have been sent to the strip immediately so that he could have seen for himself the true meaning of harassment and contemplated genocide in all its magnitude.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, another one who can't go two seconds without saying something that all the media will give a good account of, once again pulled the joker of anti-Semitism. Nothing new, she has been doing it for years. He also threatened to take legal action against the participants in the protests. The Trumpite always shows her martial streak, which she would apply if she could.
Meanwhile, in other areas such as culture, much less gentle gestures are beginning to be seen, with a Belgian festival cancelling the Munich Philharmonic because of its Israeli conductor's "ambiguity about the war".
Broadly speaking, this is the state of affairs. Many other despicable beings have left filthy statements that I prefer not to reproduce. The protests are growing and we will see many more, but the criminals who decide to throw the bombs and exterminate the population using all kinds of savage acts and those who have the necessary response power to prevent it still do not really clash.
Extermination and total destruction
Israel continues to intensify its attacks on Gaza City and is already reported to have rendered some 6000 people homeless as part of a campaign of systematic demolition of buildings of all kinds. Israel is bombing Gaza City's main tower blocks under the pretext that the main Palestinian resistance focusses are sheltering in and around them. For this they provide, as usual, zero proof or evidence. Nor do they need to, because no one demands it of them.
To give you an idea of the impact of the destruction in the area, see the before and after pictures of the neighbourhoods that have been completely razed to the ground in recent months.
There you have the estimated figures according to Al Jazeera. Israel continues to raze entire neighbourhoods in Gaza, which before the war had 2.3 million inhabitants. Israel has killed or injured more than 10% of the population, while forcing the rest into constant mass displacement.
Israel is demolishing high-rise buildings in Gaza City, razing entire blocks that were once home to thousands of people. The Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 50 multi-storey buildings have been destroyed in recent weeks as Israeli forces continue their assault on the city, all amid a wave of forced displacement. People are leaving Gaza City for the southern and central Gaza Strip. However, some have already returned because they have been unable to find a place to stay. There is no safe place to flee to.
Some neighbourhoods have suffered almost total destruction. In the Zeitoun area of Gaza City alone, more than 1500 homes and buildings have been destroyed since the beginning of August, leaving parts of the district with no buildings standing.
This is not a war, it never has been. Nor is it something that started on 7 October 2023 as if the area was a haven of peace, as the media would have us believe, where murderers are whitewashed on a daily basis. It is a genocide planned to the millimetre that began decades ago and includes almost the entire known palette of the most brutal acts and probably even worse ones that we cannot even imagine yet.
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