Entries by Acción y Comunicación sobre Oriente Medio

Another legal ruling against BDS-ELAI: 77 annulled agreements already

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 […]

Double legal blow in Spain against BDS

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 […]

OPEN LETTER: IHRA definition of antisemitism, turning words into action

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 […]

‘UN Focal Point’ to monitor antisemitism: the insistence of Moratinos in occupying a position for which he is INCAPACITATED

On 30 July the news of the supposed appointment of Miguel Ángel Moratinos as the person responsible for the fight against anti-Semitism in the United Nations immediately produced reactions of astonishment and rejection. Among them, the reaction of ACOM, as a reference organization in Spain in the fight against anti-Semitism, and thus, fully aware of […]

STATEMENT: about the possible appointment of Moratinos as the UN person in charge to monitor antisemitism

A few hours ago different agencies and leading Israeli press media informed about the appointment (1) of Miguel Ángel Moratinos as UN Commissioner for the fight against antisemitism. It is necessary to remember that as a member of the Spanish Government of President Zapatero he was permanently hostile to the Jewish State and was in […]