The mayor of the Barcelona has suspended the Spanish city’s institutional relations with Israel and, in particular, a twinning with the city of Tel Aviv, over what she claimed is a systematic violation of Palestinian human rights. In a letter addressed to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, the city’s left-wing mayor Ada Colau explained the largely symbolic move to suspend twinning between the two Mediterranean cities, as demanded in a petition by pro-Palestinian groups from Barcelona.
— source timesofisrael.com | 9 Feb 2023