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Spain

Foundation gets building for Hispanic Jewish Museum in Madrid

A significant stride towards materializing the planned Hispanic Jewish Museum in Madrid has been achieved as the Hispanic Jewish Foundation responsible for the project secured a suitable facility to house the institution.

Spanish politician resigns after calling her adversary a ‘Jewish Nazi’

A Spanish  politician who called an adversary a “Jewish Nazi” has resigned from her party. The Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE) “strongly” condemned her comments describing them as antisemitic.

Isaac Benzaquén: “The anti-Zionism being proclaimed today is a disguise for antisemitism”

Isaac Benzaquén, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, has been in Barcelona to address what they consider to be an increase in antisemitism in Catalonia.

A man has accepted a 18-month prison sentence for hate crime for chanting antisemitic slurs in Barcelona

A man has accepted an 18-month prison sentence - which he will not serve because he does not have a criminal record - for a hate crime for making antisemitic chants on Columbus Day 2021 at the demonstration that went from Plaça Espanya to Plaça Sant Jordi on Montjuïc in Barcelona.

Barcelona synagogue vandalized with antisemitic graffiti

The Ancient Synagogue of Barcelona was vandalized on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day when masked individuals sprayed the walls of the site with antisemitic graffiti.

Warsaw ghetto uprising exhibition opens in Madrid

An exhibition devoted to the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Warsaw's Jewish population rose up against the Nazis, opened in the government-run Centro Sefarad Israel institute.

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