After the City Council of Langreo, a town in northern Spain, passed a resolution to boycott Israel, the High Court of the Spanish region of Asturias ruled that a boycott of Israel is illegal.
El Al, Israel’s national carrier, has canceled plans to provide direct flights to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela after its city council adopted a resolution to boycott Israel last November.
The app, which had been uploaded to Google Play, was removed by its developers on Monday, a school for vocational training based in Zaragoza, Spain. The developers claimed the game was “just a parody.”
In a blow to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Spain, a Spanish court has invalidated a municipal boycott of Israel by the City Council of Langreo on the grounds that the move is discriminatory, anti-Semitic, and incites hate crimes.
Castrillo Mota de Judios ("Jews' Hill Camp"), voted in 2014 to change its name from Castrillo Matajudios ("Camp Kill Jews") to its current name. Rodriguez said that there have been six vandalism incidents since then as well as protests whenever Jewish or Israeli representatives visited.
An Israeli university won a discrimination case against the Spanish government, which banned them from an architecture competition because they came from Judea and Samaria.
Spanish King Felipe VI presided over a ceremony welcoming a new citizenship law for descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled five centuries ago, saying Spain had missed them.
Netanyahu is among seven Israeli politicians who could face arrest if they land in Spain, despite the fact that an old case against them was deemed unjustified.
Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which registered a population of 71 inhabitants at the 2004 census, has been an embarrassment to the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism for some time, mostly because the name, in Spanish, means Jew-killer Camp.
Jewish reggae star Matisyahu bravely faced hostile pro-Palestinian hecklers after a failed attempt by anti-Israel boycotters to ban his performance in Spain.
Spain's Rototom Sunsplash festival renewed its invitation to American-Jewish reggae star Matisyahu after canceling the event due to threats by anti-Israel boycott groups.
For awhile, only Israeli Jews were made pariahs among the nations. Now it is Jews born anywhere else who can be targeted. They are singling out Jews - Jews and only Jews.
Acquiescing to the anti-Israel boycott movement, a Spanish music festival canceled Jewish superstar Matisyahu over his refusal to support a Palestinian state.
Castrillo Matajudios or "Kill Jews," voted to change the name back to the original Castrillo Mota de Judios or "Jews' Hill Camp," in 2014 after the mayor argued that the term was offensive and that the village should honor its Jewish origins.
Spanish politician Guillermo Zapata joked about the Holocaust on Twitter and is now facing public criticism. He apologized, saying he is not an anti-Semite but enjoys black humor.
While castigating Israel for the death of a UN peacekeeper during last week's battle with Hezbollah, the UN Security Council did not censure the terror organization.
Israel's ambassador to the UN was excluded from an emergency session of the UN Security Council following an exchange of fire in the north, which killed two IDF soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper.
