Reducing reputed historians and their serious work to political caricatures, and Spain complex history to a simplistic leaflet, is not defending Spain—it’s demeaning it. Benzion Netanyahu was a serious scholar of Spain, especially of the conversos. His work contributed to Spanish historiography; it was not an “attack” on Spain. It enriched us. The same applies to Américo Castro. Studying the expulsion of the Jews and its consequences was not an attack on Spain, or made him any less patriotic, rather the contrary. Confusing historical inquiry with promotion of anti Spanish sentiment is, actually, quite wokish and rather inquisitorial. According to you, Francisco de Goya must have been a propagandist of Spanish darkness, savagery, and brutality for painting the Black Paintings. That level of simplification says more about your ridiculous ideological bias than about Netanyahu and his work.
