{"id":47130,"date":"2016-10-07T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47130"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T15:29:23","slug":"07-00-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47130","title":{"rendered":"In historic decision, Spanish High Court rules against BDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HttpHandlers\/ShowImage.ashx?id=245904&amp;w=468&amp;h=61\" alt=\"The Jerusalem Post - Israel News\" width=\"40%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/In-historic-decision-Spanish-High-Court-rules-against-BDS-469467\" target=\"_blank\">In historic decision, Spanish High Court rules against BDS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>LIDAR GRAV\u00c9-LAZI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This marks the first time that a High Court in Spain has issued a judgment relating to BDS.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"157_ArticleControl_imgArticle\" class=\"article-main-image aligncenter\" title=\"Protesters call for boycott of Israel [file] Photo By: REUTERS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HttpHandlers\/ShowImage.ashx?id=268898&amp;h=530&amp;w=758\" alt=\"Anti-Israel protest\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Protesters call for boycott of Israel [file]. (photo credit:REUTERS)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In a massive blow to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a Spanish High Court of the Asturias region, upheld a decision last week, declaring a Langreo City Council agreement to boycott Israel illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This marks the first time that a High Court in Spain has issued a judgment relating to BDS, thanks to the legal actions brought forth by ACOM, a pro-Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ACOM\u2019s president Angel Mas recently told The Jerusalem Post that the call for a boycott against Israel is part of a \u201cgrowing trend in Spain among local municipalities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to Mas, this past year alone saw some 60 municipalities declare a boycott of Israel \u2013 some knowingly while others are misled into declaring their cities \u201cFree of Israeli Apartheid\u201d by anti-Israel activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">With each declaration, ACOM has provided a first line of defense, bringing forth legal action against each and every municipality that has declared a boycott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe have to create the opposite deterrence, letting them know that there are consequences for their actions,\u201d Mas said, \u201cOtherwise they [BDS] will win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ACOM filed legal action against the Langreo City Council when they initially declared the boycott and the Court Number 4 of Oviedo ruled in its favor, declaring the municipality\u2019s actions against Israel illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The city council in turn appealed to the High Court, which rejected the motion to overturn the original decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">According to ACOM, the High Court upheld, \u201cthat the city council lacks competencies to decree an international boycott and to alter the European Directive and the national law on public procurement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cIn addition the High Court expands on the blatant unconstitutional discrimination and lack of neutrality that such a boycott would represent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This ruling provides an historic achievement for the Spanish pro-Israel lobby group, as the High Court effectively legitimized its anti-boycott legal initiatives. According to ACOM, the ruling further expanded a previous constitutional doctrine on the matter that allowed any Jewish individual to sue for defamation against any Jew or Jewish community, and allowing the pro-Israel group to take legal action based on discrimination or slander against Israelis.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In historic decision, Spanish High Court rules against BDS LIDAR GRAV\u00c9-LAZI This marks the first time that a High Court in Spain has issued a judgment relating to BDS. 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