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Spain — national action plan against antisemitism (2023–2030)

Spain shares the objectives of the European Union Strategy:

– Systematize and improve the resources and measures to combat the

antisemitism and

– Favor the conditions so that Jewish people and communities

can live in Spain in accordance with their beliefs and traditions in the

framework of our legal system.

The purpose of the document has been to evaluate, together with the different organizations and

entities involved in the fight against antisemitism, the measures that already exist and

the need to add some more action or improve any of the existing ones, either

because they are contemplated in the European Strategy, whether they are own initiatives.

This work has tried to make a document that:

a) It was not complex and maintained the structure of the European Strategy for

facilitate their inclusion in it.

b) It could be implemented realistically, within existing possibilities

and actively participating in the measures and resources that are provided for in the

Strategy of the European Union

c)The purpose of the document has been to evaluate, together with the different organizations and

entities involved in the fight against antisemitism, the measures that already exist and

the need to add some more action or improve any of the existing ones, either

because they are contemplated in the European Strategy, whether they are own initiatives.

The document is structured in the following parts:

1. The first corresponds to a brief introduction to the European Strategy and its

implementation process in Spain.

2. The second is devoted to exposing the Spanish context that is articulated around three aspects:

-The regulatory framework that serves as coverage and in which the main

norms of our legal system applicable in the matter.

-The social framework, referring both to the presence of Jews in Spain, in its history

and in the present, as to the perception of antisemitism in Spain.

-The institutional framework that includes the main institutions with powers or

functions related to the fight against antisemitism and the right of women

Jewish people and communities to live according to their beliefs and traditions.

3. The third is the content of the Plan that is articulated on the three axes that build

the EU Strategy, distinguishing in each one of them, the actions that have already been

in progress in Spain, on the one hand, and the measures that the Plan intends to implement, on the

other:

– Prevention and fight against all forms of antisemitism.

-The protection of the right of Jewish individuals and communities to live according to

their beliefs and traditions.

-Pedagogy, research and memory.

− The fourth refers to the governance of the Plan.