Spanish map of Jewish and ‘Zionist’ businesses taken down amid uproar

An online map identifying Jewish- and Israeli-linked businesses in the Catalonia region of Spain has been taken down after drawing sharp criticism from Spain’s Jewish community.

The project, called “Barcelonaz,” appeared this week on the French-hosted mapping platform GoGoCart, claiming to be “a collaborative map of the Zionist economy in Barcelona.” It listed more than 150 businesses, schools and organizations that it labeled as “Zionist.”

Numerous groups, including the Movement Against Intolerance and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), petitioned to have the site removed, and by Friday afternoon it had been removed by GoGoCart.

The site’s origins are still being investigated.

“The mapping and boycotting of Jewish businesses in Catalonia is an echo of some of the darkest chapters in history, including the prelude to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany,” CAM Director of European Affairs Shannon Seban said Friday.

“The organizers of this initiative put a target on the backs of Spanish Jews, at a time when Jews are being hunted across the globe, as seen so horrifically in Australia just three weeks ago. Clear incitement to violence of this nature must not be platformed or tolerated by internet companies or government authorities,” she said.

“While the website has now been taken down, investigations are ongoing, and CAM is fully mobilized to determine who is behind this initiative and ensure accountability,” Seban added.

Other groups, including the Jewish Community of Barcelona (CJB) and Spanish anti-Semitism organization ACOM,  also denounced the project, according to Spanish Jewish news site Enfoque Judio, as did the European Jewish Congress.

The EJC is deeply alarmed by the launch of Barcelonaz, an online interactive map that identifies Jewish-owned businesses, Israeli companies, and other entities alleged to have links to Israel in Catalonia.

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— European Jewish Congress (@eurojewcong) January 2, 2026

Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught, Spain has emerged as one of Europe’s most aggressive antagonists of Israel, systematically dismantling decades of diplomatic and economic cooperation in favor of a “sanctions-first” doctrine. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Madrid has employed some of the most severe rhetoric of any G20 nation, frequently labeling Israel’s military operations as “extermination” and “genocide.”

In May 2024, it formally recognized a Palestinian state in a coordinated effort with Norway and Ireland in an attempt to increase diplomatic pressure on Jerusalem to end its war with Hamas. The following month, it became the first European country to formally apply to join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The country recently launched a weapons trade embargo on Israel, and is blocking Israeli products imported from the West Bank, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, in what may be the largest state-level embargo of products and services from the Jewish state since the Arab League boycott launched around the time of Israel’s inception.