Tag: Barcelona
Anti-Israel activists splash red paint on Spanish writer
Protesters hurled paint at a well-known pro-Israel writer in Spain on Tuesday while she was giving a lecture at a center of higher learning.
Pilar Rahola, a former lawmaker, resumed her talk shortly after the...
Barcelona mayor cancels meeting with Israeli official sans explanation
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem, was slated to meet in Madrid with the Spanish capital’s mayor on Wednesday. The mayor ended up being sick, so she met with deputy mayor Inma Sanz.
In Madrid,...
FC Barcelona president honored with tree-planting ahead of Tel Aviv match
The president of FC Barcelona participated in a tree-planting ceremony in Israel ahead of the El Classico match in Tel Aviv between the soccer club’s legendary players and Real Madrid.
Joan Laporta took part in a prayer...
Beitar soccer club drops match with Barcelona for refusing to play in Jerusalem
Beitar Jerusalem soccer-club owner Moshe Hogeg said on Thursday that he canceled a friendly match with Barcelona after it refused to play in Jerusalem.
“After receiving the contract for signing and being exposed to the...
District court rejects boycott of Israelis by Spanish city
A district Court in Barcelona recently issued a temporary injunction that rejects a boycott of Israeli individuals and businesses by the city of Molins de Rei.
The injunction is expected to be followed up in...
An Iranian lie unfolds in the Spanish media
Amid the profusion of commentary about the hostile attitudes towards the Jewish community found on certain parts of the American political left along with the British Labour Party, there was a useful piece of...
‘Time for Jews to leave Europe?’ Is Barcelona’s chief rabbi right?
The reaction of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Catalonia to the terrorist onslaughts in Barcelona and across Catalonia this past week was instructive. First, it offered lip-service condemnation of the Barcelona terrorist attacks. Then, with that out of the...
Barcelona chief rabbi tells Jews after attack: ‘get out, go to Israel’
The chief rabbi of Catalonia has told Jews that they should leave the Spanish region and move to Israel because of fears of further radical Islamist attacks.
Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic...