After last week’s public denouncement by ACOM, the University of Santiago de Compostela has cancelled its academic programme of the course “Auschwitz/Gaza. A testing ground for comparative literature”, organised by the Faculty of Philosophy of said university. The iconography and main theme of the programme established, and not by coincidence, a correspondence between Gaza, an […]
ACOM will denounce in the Public Prosecutor’s Office the glorification of terrorism at a meeting of BNG (Galician Nationalist Party) On 25 July the pro-independence party BNG promoted and gave public coverage to the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” group, considered as a terrorist organization by the European Union. The events took place […]
– “Vote in conscience”, a campaign promoting responsible voting against anti-Semitic candidates in coming elections in Spain’s capital – The Spanish leading group in the fight against antisemitism asks Madrilians to vote being aware of the hostility against Jews of certain political groups that stand in the forthcoming May 4th elections. – The ACOM Jewish […]
The Madrid parliamentary group of Partido Popular (PP, center-right), in control of the Madrid regional government in coalition with centrist Ciudadanos party, has presented a proposal to urge the Spanish Parliament to force the public defunding of organizations that promote anti-Semitic hatred, as defined by IHRA. The initiative, promoted by Madrid regional President Isabel Díaz […]
ACOM’S legal team takes legal action against anti-Semitic statements from a spokesperson of the event organised by the extreme right wing organisation Juventud Patriota de Madrid (Patriotic Youth of Madrid) last 13 February at the La Almudena cemetery in Madrid for clear incitement to anti-Semitism. At the same time, we announce that we are taking […]
The Contentious Administrative Court number 2 of Córdoba has annulled the boycott against Israel approved by the City Hall of Montoro (Córdoba). The Court points out that the declarations of Space Free From Israeli Apartheid and the adherence to the BDS campaign violate the basic principles of the Spanish Constitution and other legal bodies. Thanks […]
The Higher Court of Justice rejects the appeal of the City Council of Cádiz against the sentence that annulled their boycott against Israel. On 12 August 2016 the City Council of Cadiz approved the adherence of their town to the discriminatory network “Town free of Israeli Apartheid” against the Jewish state. As part of the […]
More sentences in Spain against the anti-Semite campaign of several towns against the Jewish state. Thanks to the legal initiative of ACOM, 74 BDS institutional agreements have been judicially annulled or by the Local and/or Public Administrations themselves. The Contentious Administrative Court number 2 of Santander (north of Spain) has declared illegal the adherence of […]
Dear friends, As you well know, on 22 July 2020 the Minister of the Presidency and First Vice-president of the Spanish Government, Mrs Carmen Calvo, announced the government’s decision to support the working definition of anti-Semitism of the IHRA. The IHRA declaration points out that any show of generalised hatred or delegitimisation against Israel or […]
Was the endorsement of IHRA by Spain a mere scrap of paper? Our worries are more than reasonable. The announcement of the Government of Spain On 22 July 2020 the Minister of the Presidency and First Vice President, Mrs Carmen Calvo, announced the decision of the Government of Spain of endorsing the working definition of […]
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