Following a Spanish politician’s decision to back the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel, a legal case has advanced.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau announced the termination of her city’s friendship and cooperation with Tel Aviv in a public letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in February, claiming “repeated violations of human rights by the Palestinian population.”
A few days later, Action and Communication on the Middle East (ACOM) filed a lawsuit in Barcelona against Colau, charging him with “the alleged crimes of administrative perversion of justice and incitement to hatred” and citing sections of the Spanish Criminal Code that call for a private prosecution.
Now that the court has accepted that lawsuit, the required inquiry has started. ACOM pledged “to defend our democracy” and promised “to unmask in all sectors, from the legal to the media, all actions that are taken by the antisemites who, in their false solidarity with the Palestinian people, intend to curtail the freedoms of Jews in Spain.”
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