Neo-Nazism in Spain, Italy and Slovenia

Antisemitism and Neo- Nazism in Spain, Italy and Slovenia

Erica Zeman 

In continuation of the previous article describing Spain’s position in relation to Israel, Grant Arthur Gochin, Financial Advisor in California, uses even sharper terms by calling ‘Spain’s Hypocrisy an Anti- Israel obsession and as a Path to Self- Dissolution.’ His article in The Times of Israel focusses on Spain’s inconsistency of political logic in condemning on the one hand Israel’s plan to repopulate Judea and Samaria with Israel’s Sovereignty, and on the other hand ‘suppressing similar aspirations at home’. Wherever there is a political rift within a European country, the ‘Palestine aspirations’ are keen to fuel the division.

Catalonia’s capital city Barcelona continues in a century old competition with Madrid. This unstable political existence puts strain on the Jewish Community in either being beneficiaries of the mayor Jaume Colin’s graces or being exposed to his dissatisfaction with regards to Israel’s war against Islamic terrorists. It is a particularly historic European mental manipulative mindset in private and public circles, which claims that nothing good and truthful comes from Israel’s people and Israel’s government. Spain feeds on Middle Age assumptions that Israel has malicious intentions in business transactions and political movements. Nevertheless, Spain appreciates business, and the opportunity displaying genuine hospitality is at hand in the following example. After weeks of tensions and debate seeing Israel’s firm stand of non- negotiation to back down, Barcelona’s organiser of the Mobile World Congress decided to include Israel for the Congress March 2026. It is the first time Israel and ‘Palestinian’ firms showed their newest technical devices during the past four days. Right at the start of the Mobile World Conference, on 2nd March, 2026 the ‘Free Palestine’ supporters gathered at the entrance of the MWC compound accusing Israel of genocide and demanded from the Barcelona’s organisers to but a ‘ban on Israel at this congress and at any other event hosted in the city’. There are no humanitarian concerns in this so called ‘Free Palestine’ movement, neither for Israel, for the Palestinian people nor for Spanish businesses.  The only focus is on destroying Israel’s infrastructure. These demonstrators are only visible with their repetitive slogans when Israel is involved. If human rights were their concerns, why have none of these ‘Palestine supporters’ presented themselves on behalf of the Iranian people’s plight under the Iranian regime?

 Returning in this article back to A. Gochin’s analysation, he exposes Spanish antisemitism in the dubbed ‘ Barcelonaz ‘ project , in which the interference of ’journalists, professors and students , the interactive map publicly identifies 152 Jewish  owned businesses, Israeli companies and multinational firms with ties to Israel, labelling them as part of a ‘ Zionist economy’. Denouncing Israel as an apartheid state first, moved now to the parroting claim of Israel as a genocide regime. Remind me, who slaughtered more than 1,200 Israel civilians on the 7th October 2023?

Spain has a long history of calling for boycotts on Israeli goods through the BDS organisation. The Lawyer Ignacio Wenley Palacios Iglesias discerned their motivation of action clearly with his statement that the BDS movement ‘is thinly disguised under a veil of a deceiving human rights narrative.’ Nothing has changed in their statements as the same tactic of deception comes to the front by Islamic rhetoric into these present days. The cry for boycotts and bans is treated as legitimate in spite the fact that the Spanish Supreme Court ruled in 2022 boycotts against Israel as unconstitutional. 

Wanted in Rome on-line news discussed on the 28th of February 2026, Italy’s government ongoing process of legalising a stricter law for combating hate speech. The Party of Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and Forza Italia agree that the new bill is necessary with the intention that it proves to be more effective. Victor Fadlun, the president of Rome’s Jewish Community emphasises the need for a new bill. From his perspective and experience the inclusion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition is necessary as the former hate speech laws are incompatible in detecting antisemitic propaganda compared with the sophistication of modern antisemitic expressions. Victor Fadlun also directs his listeners to the fact that antisemitism and Neo-Nazism not only damage the Jewish communities but also diminishes the essential values of any democracy.

Slovenia’s government recognises the Jewish Community as a religious Community with equal rights and responsibilities as any other Slovenian Citizen and as part of the Slovenian Society. The Slovenian State’s Constitution declares the protection of the Slovenian Jewish people, which estimates 300-400 persons strong, as governmental responsibility. Slovenia’s official statement published in December 2023 states as follows in the ‘Strategy of the Republic of Slovenia Combating Antisemitism until 2033’:

‘The Strategy has three main pillars; recognizing antisemitism, promoting awareness of and preserving (the local) Jewish culture, and Holocaust remembrance, with the overall goal of Slovenia, the EU and the world free of antisemitism.’

 Having said this, Slovenia has three long standing Neo-Nazi gangs; Blood and Honour, Headhunters Domzale and Slovene Radicals. The country has become a meeting place for International Neo- Nazi gatherings centred in   the towns of Domzale and Ziri, thirty-nine kilometres apart from each other. The countryside lends itself to a lower degree of camera-surveillance. The U.K. has frozen all the assets of any Blood and Honour fonds and members since the 8th of January 2025, under Regulation 5 of Counter terror measurements. The question is still to what degree has this ban affected the Slovenian branch? Slovenia’s Blood and honour and other Neo Nazi gangs have not been banned by the government. The executive authorities are described as being lenient, lax, and tolerant to their ‘cultural entertainment’ of Neo-Nazi concerts, emblems, annual celebration of Hitler’s Birthday and private parties. Such tolerance is unacceptable as these Neo-Nazis are also in the illicit possessions of weapons. Neo-Nazi Slovenian propaganda influenced and activated the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik in 2011. One of the Slovenian Neo- Nazi website pages includes the name of KuKlux Clan Slovenia.