Report points to “multiple cases of vandalism to places or Jewish properties” in Portugal, but only cites a specific case throughout the chapter that talks about hatred to that community
It’s all right in Portugal, but there are problems with anti -Semitism and incitement to hatred against Jews. This is the understanding of the latest annual evaluation by the United States.
The US State Department published its own, ignoring the abuses in a country like El Salvador, but reinforcing criticism of European countries or Brazil, where there was a “deterioration” of the situation.
According to the report, Portugal has no major problems, but there are cases of anti -Semitism, with between three and four thousand Jews in the Portuguese community.
“There have been multiple cases of vandalism to Jewish locations or properties,” read the report, which does not specify any case.
One of them will be that of the Porto Synagogue, the largest of the Iberian Peninsula, which was vandalized as early as 2023, which forced to reinforce safety at the site. By situations like these, but also others that have occurred, policing the “Israeli interests” in Portugal has been reinforced, in a situation that has not changed since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza, in a reaction to the unprecedented attack that Hamas carried out in the south of the country.
If isolated there is only one, even though it is not totally clear what the United States think about it. We talked about the interview given by the head of the arrival list to the European elections of June 2024.
Even before that, in an interview by the newspaper published on May 10, António Tânger Corrêa suggested that Jews may have been warned of September 11 attacks, who killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, mostly in New York City.
The words to which the report refers are as follows: “When I arrived in Israel a week earlier, I was very raw. I was a friend of Shimon Peres, who was a foreign minister, with whom I immediately contacted, and had two or three colleagues, ambassadors from other countries that had been with me in other posts. They all said that there was a big thing in the United States. Israelites did not expect for the next day to say ‘calculation of the number of dead = x’. It coincided almost with the number of Israeli dead since the creation of the State of Israel.
Asked in this same interview about the possibility of a warning to the Jewish workers, the now model added: “It may have been, I say. I don’t guarantee, because I didn’t hear any of these warnings. Now, what is the fact that fewer people were working on Twin Towers, which, as you know, were a place where many Jews were [trabalhavam].”
Now, on this, the United States notes that “the head of the List of the European Parliament and former Ambassador of Portugal in Israel, António Tânger Corrêa, suggested in an intervention that Jews may have been warned of terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011.”
Without making a direct connection, the report also includes these statements in a chapter on anti -Semitism and incitement to anti -Semitism.
An ancient theory
The theory that the Jews who worked in the places attacked during September 11 came shortly after the attacks who hit the twin towers and the Pentagon.
According to, this is a widely denied theory, which arose following other theories that point to an attempt by the Jews to dominate the world for their benefit.
The different committees created to investigate everything that happened that day and all government agencies refuted this theory, even though some groups of activists continue to suggest that there are facts to be hidden.
Some of these groups then embraced conspiracy theories related to Covid-19 or vaccination programs.
On the issue of Jews, the theory embraces the same suggestion of Antonio Tânger Corrêa that the about four thousand workers in the twin towers had been warned in advance.
Those who defend this theory say that the Israeli government orchestrated the attacks to lead the United States to launch a regional war against the enemies of the Hebrew state. It is certain, according to the BBC, that 119 of the 2,071 victims in New York were Jews, while another 72 had ties with the community.
This means that about 10% of the victims recorded in the twin towers were of Jewish descent.
