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Members of Spain’s Jewish community filed a complaint this week with the French online platform GoGoCarto over an interactive mapping project that blacklisted Jewish businesses in the Catalonia region, it was reported on Friday.
According to Enfoque Judío, the “Barcelonaz” initiative — launched by an anonymous group of “journalists, professors, and students” — invited internet users to submit additional entries and label entities as “Zionist.”
More than 150 entities were named, and no distinction was made between local Jewish shops and communal institutions, Israeli companies, and multinational firms that do business in Israel.
The project’s stated goal was to “understand how (Zionism) operates and the forms it takes, with the intention of making visible and denouncing the impact of its investments in our territory.”
🚨 Nazi style campaign exposed in Catalonia: A mapping project targets Jewish businesses labeled as “Zionist” and calls for their boycott Over 150 Jewish businesses listed.
Does this sound familiar? pic.twitter.com/3x138dYVqD
— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) January 2, 2026
As of Friday afternoon U.S. Eastern time, the page had been taken down, according to Catalan journalist Pilar Rahola, the chair of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Advisory Board for Latin America.
Rahola helped lead efforts to alert relevant Spanish officials to the website’s existence and call for its removal.
Denuncias puestas.
Página caída.
Cero tolerancia con el odio antisemita#stopantisemitism@CombatASemitism https://t.co/q3Vhpjd3uu— 🟦 Pilar Rahola (@RaholaOficial) January 2, 2026
In a statement on Friday, Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Director of European Affairs Shannon Seban denounced the “Barcelonaz” project as “pure antisemitism.”
“The mapping and boycotting of Jewish businesses in Catalonia is an echo of some of the darkest chapters in history, including the prelude to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany,” Seban said. “The organizers of this initiative put a target on the backs of Spanish Jews, at a time when Jews are being hunted across the globe, as seen so horrifically in Australia just three weeks ago. Clear incitement to violence of this nature must not be platformed or tolerated by internet companies or government authorities.”
“While the website has now been taken down, investigations are ongoing, and CAM is fully mobilized to determine who is behind this initiative and ensure accountability,” she added.
A similar mapping project raised the concern of the Jewish community of the Boston, Massachusetts area in the United States back in 2022.
The “Barcelonaz” project marked the latest example of the growing normalization of antisemitism in Spain — a trend analyzed in detail by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) last May.
In July, the iconic San Fermín festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, which includes the famous “Running of the Bulls,” was marred by antisemitic chants and displays.
This past fall, CAM condemned remarks by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in which he appeared to express “regret” that his country did not have “nuclear bombs” to use against Israel.
Prime Minister Sánchez adopted a hostile stance toward Israel in the aftermath of the October 7th massacre, including the imposition of an arms embargo on the Jewish state.
