Israel’s Airlines El Al has decided to cancel plans to open a direct flight between Tel Aviv and the northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela after the Spanish city council adopted a motion to boycott Israel.

According to daily newspaper La Voz de Galici, the Spanish branch of El Al negotiated with tourist officials from Galicia, the province where Santiago de Compostela lies, over opening a direct flight but the talks failed following the passing in November of a motion in the city council in favor of boycotting Israel.

Tourism is a major source of income in Galicia, where nearly one in two workers under the age of 25 is unemployed. Famously, Santiago de Compostela is the destination of the Catholic pilgrimage route known as the Way of St. James. It attracts more than 250,000 pilgrims and tourists annually to Santiago.

Some 350,000 Israeli tourists visit Spain annually.

The Galician Association for Friendship with Israel told the Voz de Galicia paper that El Al opened in April a flight to Valencia instead of Santiago as a direct result of the boycott motion.

ACOM, a Madrid-based, pro-Israel group which is fighting the boycott campaign against Israel in Spain, blamed Santiago’s far-left ruling party of running the city “with ineptitude.”

Santiago’s support for boycotting Israel reflects “disregard not only toward Jews but for its own residents by tearing down a project that would have brought Santiago revenue, tourists and jobs,” ACOM said.

Earlier this year, an ACOM lawsuit resulted in a precedent-setting High Court ruling labeling as discriminatory the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, against Israel. Several lower courts issued injunctions against municipalities