The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has been criticized by Israel and citizens in Spain due to his purported remarks concerning the utilization of nuclear weapons against Israel.

In a speech last week, Prime Minister Sanchez, who leads the socialist government, remarked, “Spain, as you know, doesn’t have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, or large oil reserves,” further expressing, “We alone can’t stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn’t mean we won’t stop trying. Because there are causes worth fighting for, even if winning them isn’t in our sole power.”

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded by accusing Sanchez of issuing a “blatant genocidal threat to the world’s only Jewish state. Apparently, the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews of Spain and the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust, is not enough for Sanchez.”

The Times of Israel reported Spain called in Israel’s top diplomat in the country to “categorically reject the false and slanderous statements from the Israeli prime minister’s office.”