Anti-Israel virtue signaling is usually reserved for know-nothing college students who may or may not be smart enough to realize how antisemitic their movement is. Sometimes, though, even whole countries find out how virtue signaling can backfire.

Ireland, Norway, and Spain all decided to reward Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians and promise to continue to try and kill Israeli civilians by declaring that they would recognize “Palestine” as an independent state. As part of that process, Norway will be turning its diplomatic office in the West Bank into an embassy, and Ireland announced it would create an embassy as well.

Spain, though, is sticking with its consulate in Jerusalem for now, even though Israel said the consulate will not be able to provide resources to Palestinians.

Spanish media is reporting that this is because Spanish diplomats in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv don’t want to live or work in Palestinian territory, both because of the lesser quality of life and because of concerns about their own safety. Maybe, just maybe, rewarding terrorists with a country so you could condemn the world’s only Jewish state was a poorly thought-out plan in the first place.

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This is one of the (many, many) problems with staking your reputation and credibility on genocidal, antisemitic terrorists who use their own citizens as human shields while trying to murder civilians in other countries. If Spain wants to reward terrorists with a state, it should put its embassy where its mouth is.

Anything less shows the country to be just as pathetic and performative as whiny university students who have taken up the same cause.