Pedro's Palestine Turn

A few further thoughts on recent events and the backstory to the piece

A serious media outlet recently asked me to write about Pedro Sánchez’s endorsement of the disruption of the la Vuelta cycling race, and his push to accelerate measures against Israel. After several rounds of edits and a long back-and-forth with the opinion editor, which improved the piece, it was ultimately killed by the editor-in-chief. The reasons g…