The Smile of Evil

A few days ago, two women were expelled from a sauna in Barcelona for wearing a Star of David. This reprehensible act has already been reported, and we will soon see if justice will rise to the occasion.

It is striking, when watching the video circulating on social media, the overwhelming smile worn by the aggressors as they imposed the restriction of access to Jewish women, amidst insults and shoves.

Just a few months ago, in another video, Argentine congresswoman Vanina Biasi from the leftist Workers' Party (now charged with hate crimes and discrimination) can be seen shouting “genocidal” at a colleague, congresswoman Sabrina Ajmechet, who is Jewish, accompanying her insult with a smirk of joy on her face.

Simply by looking at photographs of marches, “peace” demonstrations, and boisterous pro-Palestinian flotillas, you will notice, dear reader, the broadest smiles, often accompanied by dancing and revelry while shouting “globalize the intifada” (which means kill Jews), because for this, the henchmen of a left that has sunk very low do speak in the English of the American empire.

The detail is not of little importance, and the “displays of happiness” are repeated in the posture of many individuals when they express their antisemitic attitudes, whether insulting in front of synagogues, tearing down posters of those kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, lurking in front of a Sant Jordi stand in Barcelona, or intimidating those present at a Hanukkah ceremony.

The smile is in each case a protagonist on the faces of the aggressors.

What feelings do their smiling gestures harbor? Why should the congresswoman smile when she shouts “genocidal” at the other? That word, so trivialized lately, should be treated with seriousness.

There is an extreme morbidity in these individuals when they insult, in this case the Jew, releasing their dark antisemitic compulsion cultivated within their narrow minds.

Do they find pleasure in finding someone to tarnish and mistreat, feeling that their dream of social struggle and conquest is fulfilled, and reveling in a bath of political triumphs by attacking the Hebrew?

Two thousand years of persecution against the Jewish people support their impression that mistreating them has no consequences.

Perhaps by harassing the Jew they feel morally superior, actually carrying the germ of structural racism. Perhaps the fact of belonging to or being accepted by their tribe gives them a sense of ethical supremacy. 

A separate paragraph is warranted for the highest political authorities in Spain; the very smiling and hostile street abusers understand that they can violate laws against harassment and discrimination when hostile attitudes towards the Jewish State and Spanish Jewish communities are produced and endorsed from the very power.

Those who accompany their insults to the Jew with their cheerful grimaces and laughter are doomed to live in darkness and ignorance, accompanied by their own shame. 

*Thanks to Dr. María Joana Escamilla Lerner for her collaboration.