Ceuta crisis fuels Israel conspiracy theories
Hours after tens of thousands of people from Morocco stormed into Spain’s Ceuta enclave on Thursday, Spanish actor Javier Bardem shared a theory on who was behind this mass breach of his native country’s borders.…
Assessment
A border crisis in Ceuta is being exploited to circulate an unfounded conspiracy theory blaming Israel, amplified by a celebrity with a history of anti-Israel activism. The accusation, dismissed by a U.S. ambassador as a blood libel, risks inflaming tensions and distracting from the actual humanitarian and diplomatic dimensions of the mass incursion.