Anti-Semitic tweets point to hate speech problem in Spain

By Paul Day MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government is considering cracking down on hate speech on social networks after thousands of anti-Semitic comments on Twitter following an Israel-Spain basketball game on Sunday. Jewish groups filed a legal complaint on Tuesday calling for official action against tweeters who made gas chamber and Holocaust comments after Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team defeated Spain's Real Madrid in the Euro League final. State prosecutors are looking into the complaint against users of an obscene Twitter tag, which the Jewish groups say became a trending topic on Twitter in Spain after over 4,000 direct messages on the microblogging network, and thousands more retweets. On Sunday, the village of Castrillo Matajudios in northern Spain will on whether to change its name - which means Kill the Jews Fort - and purge a vestige of anti-semitism stemming from the days of the Inquisition. Read More http://ift.tt/TuqJ9e