Pro-Israel activists in Spain obtain a court ruling voiding a municipality’s unconstitutional motion to boycott the Jewish state.
The 2nd Administrative Court of Castellón de la Plana delivered its ruling earlier this month on the June 2017 resolution to boycott Israel passed at the city council of Benlloch, a village of 1,115 inhabitants located in eastern Spain.
The resolution, which passed with the support of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, declared Benlloch an “Israeli apartheid free space” and a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
But the court ruled this act violated the principles of equality guaranteed in the Spanish constitution.
The motion “compromises Article 14 of the Spanish Constitution by inciting and producing discrimination over circumstances of birth, race, gender, religion, opinion or any other personal or social circumstances,” the ruling read.
— JTA
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