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<\/a>Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Barcelona, More Than 20 Graves Vandalized<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nDavid Swindle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Vandals on Sunday targeted the Jewish cemetery in Barcelona, desecrating more than 20 graves and smashing tombstones.<\/span><\/p>\n The crime comes amid a sharp\u00a0rise in antisemitic incidents and anti-Israel sentiment<\/a>\u00a0across Spain, whose Jewish community has expressed alarm over the increasingly hostile environment.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have seen how, at demonstrations, online and on the street, hate speech against Jews became routine. Then signs appeared across the city. Later, posters were hung on public buildings with slogans,\u201d the Jewish Community of Barcelona said in a statement. \u201cAfter that, a map was published marking Jewish targets, including a school. And now, the desecration of graves. This is not random. This is an escalation. From slogans to marking. From marking to threats. And from threats to action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The statement referred to an\u00a0online platform mapping Jewish-owned businesses<\/a>, schools, and Israeli-linked companies in Catalonia, a region in northeastern Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Catalan police told Agence France Presse that \u201cwe are aware of the [cemetery] incident and have opened an investigation,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The European Jewish Congress (EJC)\u00a0condemned the vandalism<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat we are seeing is not isolated. It is part of a wider escalation that begins with words, continues with targeting and intimidation and ends in acts like this,\u201d the EJC said. \u201cWhen hate is normalized in public discourse, the step to physical action becomes smaller.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry also\u00a0released a statement<\/a>\u00a0with photos of the crime, saying, \u201cWe condemn the vandalism of the Jewish cemetery in Barcelona. This despicable act is a result of the anti-Israel campaign by the S\u00e1nchez government. We stand with Spain\u2019s Jewish community. Antisemitism must never be normalized and must be firmly rejected in all societies.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In September, Lorenzo Rodr\u00edguez, mayor of Castrillo Mota de Jud\u00edos in northern Spain, warned that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez had fueled antisemitic sentiment.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe\u00a0government is fostering antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0that will prove deeply damaging for Spain,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said. \u201cS\u00e1nchez\u2019s moves are less about serious foreign policy and more about deflecting attention from his trials and failures in governance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Rodr\u00edguez described his view that Spain \u201cisn\u2019t leading anything \u2014 it\u2019s merely whitewashing Hamas and other terrorist groups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez had told members of his Socialist Workers\u2019 Party that month that Israel should not be allowed to participate in international sports and that the Jewish state \u201ccannot continue to use any international platform to whitewash its image.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Spain\u2019s Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun has expressed similar calls for boycotting Israel, saying, \u201cWe have to make sure that Israel does not take part in the next Eurovision,\u201d referring to the international song contest.<\/span><\/p>\n Madrid has been one of the West\u2019s\u00a0fiercest critics of Israel\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0defensive military campaign in Gaza following Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of and massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu presented in October 2023 as a military operation in response to the horrific terrorist attacks has ended up becoming a new wave of illegal occupations and an unjustifiable attack against the Palestinian civilian population \u2013 an attack that the UN special rapporteur and the majority of experts already describe as a genocide,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said in a televised speech last year.<\/span><\/p>\n The diplomatic tension between the two nations reached a boiling point in September, when\u00a0Madrid recalled its ambassador<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The American Jewish Committee (AJC)\u00a0describes<\/a>\u00a0Barcelona as notable for its anti-Israel sentiment, characterizing its position as an \u201coutlier status.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The AJC wrote in May 2023 that in February of that year, \u201cBarcelona Mayor Ada Colau<\/a>\u00a0announced that Spain\u2019s second-largest city would\u00a0sever ties with its twin city Tel Aviv<\/a>. The move answered the demands of anti-Israel activists who in January had petitioned the city council to condemn Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Global 100 report\u00a0names<\/a>\u00a0Spain as one of the most antisemitic countries in Europe (ranked 15 out of 18 in the region), with 26 percent of adults \u2014 10.4 million people \u2014 expressing belief in six or more bigoted tropes against Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n The Spanish Jewish community recently filed complaints over an online platform that\u00a0targeted Jewish establishments<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n First reported by the local Jewish outlet Enfoque Jud\u00edo, the interactive map \u2014 known as Barcelonaz \u2014 was launched by an unidentified group claiming to be \u201cjournalists, professors, and students\u201d on the French-hosted mapping platform GoGoCarto.<\/span><\/p>\n As a publicly accessible and collaboratively created online platform, the map marked over 150 schools, Jewish-owned businesses \u2014 including kosher food shops \u2014 and Israeli-linked as well as Spanish and international companies operating in Israel, labeling them as \u201cZionist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Jewish leaders in Spain strongly denounced the BarcelonaZ initiative, warning that it fostered further discrimination and hatred against the community\u00a0amid an increasingly hostile environment<\/a>\u00a0in which Jews and Israelis continue to be targeted.<\/span><\/p>\n Amid the backlash, GoGoCarto announced it had removed the BarcelonaZ project from its website after local groups denounced the initiative as blatantly antisemitic and dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Barcelona, More Than 20 Graves Vandalized David Swindle Photo of vandalized tombstones in Barcelona via Federation of Jewish Community of Barcelona (CJB). Vandals on Sunday targeted the Jewish cemetery in Barcelona, desecrating more than 20 graves and smashing tombstones. The crime comes amid a sharp\u00a0rise in antisemitic incidents and anti-Israel sentiment\u00a0across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127688,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127666\/revisions\/127688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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