Tag: Spain
Spanish judge rules city’s cancellation of Israeli festival due to BDS unconstitutional
A Spanish judge recently ruled that a city’s cancellation of an Israeli film festival due to its support of the BDS movement violates the country’s constitution.
The city council in the port town of Cádiz,...
Holocaust-denier nominated as congressional candidate in Spain’s April 28 elections
A Holocaust-denier who has said that facts about the Shoah are “far from having been established with accuracy” and labeled the Nuremberg trials a “farce” has been nominated this week as a candidate to serve in...
Spanish VIPs get the message: BDS is bad for everyone
The ongoing barrage of Hamas rockets on Sunday and into Monday didn’t stop a group of 10 Spanish lawmakers, policy-shapers and journalists currently in Israel from continuing their fact-finding mission about the threats that...
Caving to BDS, Spanish city cancels water-polo match against Israel
A city in Spain has caved to pressure from the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and has announced that it will not host a women’s water-polo match between Spain and Israel.
The match had been...
Miguel Giner, the Spaniard who flouted Franco’s laws to save hundreds of Jews from...
Vicente Giner (Altea, 1930) was 13 years old when that group of fifteen or twenty Polish Jews arrived at his house in Les, in Lleida, during the Second World War. "I remember everything perfectly...
![By Menesteo [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/800px-Juderia-segovia-324x235.jpg "Network of Jewish Quarters in Portugal and Spain")
Network of Jewish Quarters in Portugal and Spain
Spain and Portugal have a rich Jewish history. Jews were in the Iberian Peninsula since the days of the Roman empire. Jewish culture flourished under Moorish rules, where Christians, Muslims and Jews coexisted. Even...
Spanish high court rules anti-Israel boycott by city council is unconstitutional
The High Court of Justice in Spain’s Asturias province ruled that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel was unconstitutional.
Last year, the City Council of Castrillon in northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting...
Spanish city cancels Israeli concert in latest boycott move
The city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain’s Asturias region, has purportedly canceled an upcoming concert by Israel’s NK Orchestra and a ballet performance.
The producer of the concert set to take place in Oviedo...
Pro-Israel group explore legal action after Valencia declares itself ‘free of Israeli apartheid’
ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group, is exploring legal action against the city council of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, after it passed a pro-BDS resolution.
The city council of Valencia approved a motion last week to...
WJC welcomes landmark agreement to combat anti-Semitism reached between Spanish government and Jewish community
NEW YORK - The World Jewish Congress on Thursday welcomed a landmark agreement reached between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE), aimed at combating...