Following the emergence in France of an online map of Jewish-owned entities, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers on Sunday accused European officials of selectively using hate speech laws to target critics of mass migration while ignoring antisemitism.
Rogers, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, leveled the criticism on X following an uproar over the map, which unidentified programmers had uploaded to the France-based cartography website GoGoCarto.
The creators of the undated map, which included the offices of mainstream Jewish groups in Barcelona among the 150-odd addresses listed, wrote that it showed how Zionism “operates and in what forms it presents itself.” GoGoCarto removed the addresses following complaints last week by Spanish and French Jews.
Mainstream European Jewish groups have called for stricter limitations of antisemitic and other hateful rhetoric online, including in connection with the GoGoCarto map.
“We urge GoGoCarto, the Government of Catalonia and the City Council of Barcelona to act with urgency, to remove content that enables discrimination and incitement and to ensure accountability under applicable law,” the European Jewish Congress wrote in a statement last week about the map.
