A district court in Oviedo, Spain has suspended a city council’s anti-Israel boycott, according to a statement this week from the non-profit Lawfare Project organisation.
The court issued a writ of interim injunction against the city council of Castrillón for its discriminatory boycott of Israeli products about a half-year after it issued a similar one against the same local government.
The council had adopted a “free spaces from Israel apartheid” designation and ordered the restriction of public procurement and municipal relations with Israeli institutions, companies, organisations or entities that might benefit from such trade.
A public law court suspended the boycott in June 2017, but according to the Lawfare Project, the city council “decided to revoke its own boycott and write a new piece of boycott legislation that would theoretically be impervious to legal challenges.”
Last week, a court in Gran Canaria also issued a decision declaring a boycott against Israel passed by the city council there illegal. That followed legal proceedings filed by ACOM, a pro-Israel organisation that combats the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in Spain.
