Town has long been plagued by antisemitic graffiti; it changed its name in 2015 to Castrillo Mota De Judios, or Fort Jews Hill. Three apparent Nazi sympathizers have been arrested in connection with a rash of antisemitic vandalism in a tiny Spanish town whose name for nearly 400 years was Castrillo Matajudios — or Fort Kill the Jews. For years, the town, which changed its name in 2015 to Castrillo Mota De Judios, or Fort Jews Hill, has been plagued by antisemitic graffiti. Some of it referenced the Holocaust, while others had to do with the Inquisition, the medieval expulsion of Jews from Spain. All of it vexed the town’s mayor, who has sought to rehabilitate the town’s image and put it on the map as a destination of Jewish significance. (…) “Camp Kill Jews, twinned with Aushwitch [sic],” one instance of graffiti in Castrillo Mota De Judios read. Others included slogans like, “Juden Raus,” “Long live Catholic monarchs,” “The mayor’s sold out to the killer Jew,” and referenced Tomás de Torquemada, the high inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. Vandals also attempted to burn down the town’s flag, which bears the Star of David, as early as a year ago. Last summer, they allegedly spread more graffiti and set fires around the town to further harass the residents, after the town was twinned with an Israeli town, Kfar Vradim.
via timesofisrael: Nazi sympathizers vandalize small Spanish town once named Fort Kill the Jews