A city council in the Spanish Mediterranean island of Ibiza has voted a motion to support the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott,Divestment, Sanctions).

The motion, initiated by a local party affiliated with the extreme-left Podemos party but supported by other major political groups locally, declares the city of Santa Eulalia, the most populated of Ibiza and a very popular place with many tourists including Israelis, a “space free of Israeli apartheid”.

According to pro-Israel group ACOM which appealed the decision in court, the council’s vote means that the city will “support the BDS campaign, the boycott against Israeli and pro-Israel institutions, companies and organizations, including Spanish nationals associated or sympathetic to the Jewish state.’’

ACOM has urged the city council of Santa Eulalia and its Mayor Vicente Mari Torres ‘’to reverse immediately the discriminatory boycott agreement that goes directly against the many Israeli and pro-Israel residents and visitors to Ibiza.’’

“We also demand that the ruling Partido Popular of Prime Minister Rajoy instructs its different local authorities to actively oppose these declarations. The Spanish government should also act proactively through its state attorney against such unconstitutional agreements so that it is not just up to private organizations such as ACOM to fight against blatant anti-Semitism exercised by public authorities in Spain,” ACOM said.

According to ACOM, Podemos has used its presence in local governments over the last 10 months to promote an aggressive institutional BDS campaign that to date has declared 50 city councils throughout the country "free of Israeli apartheid" – declarations which continue on a weekly basis.

These regulations aim to exclude Israeli interests, and also Spanish citizens friendly to Israel, from civic, social, political and economic life, creating a modern “Judenfrei oil spill,” ACOM said.

As a result of the ACOM’s legal actions, nine courts in Spain have already ruled the BDS declarations are “illegal, discriminatory, unconstitutional and against Human Rights,” reversing the decisions of the city councils.

Spain’s government has repeatedly expressed its opposition to BDS, which is illegal in neighboring France because it is deemed discriminatory. Britain’s ruling party is formulating similar legislation, officials said earlier this year.