FOUNDATIONAL PURPOSES

We Fight Against Antisemitism in Catalonia

The Emet – Truth Foundation, as a Catalan foundation, has as its founding objective the fight against antisemitism throughout the territory of Catalonia. However, aware of the universal nature of the rights it protects and of the global impact of antisemitic acts in an interconnected world, the Foundation reserves the possibility of acting also in the rest of Spain and at the international level. These actions aim to prevent, report, or combat antisemitic behaviors and acts that may directly or indirectly affect Catalan society.

What Is Antisemitism?

To guide its actions, the Foundation adopts the definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an organization that brings together governments and experts to promote education, remembrance, and research on the Holocaust, as well as to uphold the commitments of the 2000 Stockholm Declaration.

This definition, endorsed by more than 1,200 entities worldwide — including the Council and Parliament of the European Union and the Barcelona City Council — has been adopted by 45 countries, including Spain, along with all EU member states.

According to this definition:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward them. Its manifestations may be rhetorical or physical, and are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions, and religious facilities.”

In addition to its primary objective of eradicating antisemitism in Catalonia, the Foundation assumes as a specific purpose the fight against historically revisionist narratives of an antisemitic nature.

To achieve this, the Foundation establishes statutory goals oriented toward the effective fulfillment of its founding objectives:

Centralize, catalog, analyze, and pursue antisemitic incidents in Catalonia.
Identify centers and/or individuals who promote antisemitism.
Encourage reflection on antisemitism through analysis and publications.
Help implement existing national and international policies to combat antisemitism — with special emphasis on the guidelines set by the Office of the High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations — and propose new specific actions to public administration, organizations, media, and society at large.
Strengthen, support, and promote education, remembrance, and research in Catalonia on the Holocaust, and uphold the commitments of the 2000 Stockholm Declaration.
Fight against defamation of the Jewish people and ensure justice and equality in the treatment of all individuals.
Build bridges of communication, understanding, and respect among various public administrations.
Provide and promote the knowledge and tools necessary to counter antisemitism, hatred, and intolerance through education and the implementation of educational programs.

In practical terms, the work of the Foundation consists fundamentally of countering, with all available means, the antisemitism latent in our society and present in public life, in the media, in schools, universities and other educational institutions, in workplaces, and in the religious sphere, through actions such as:

Calling for, supporting, or justifying the death of or harm to Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist religious vision.
Making false, dehumanizing, evil, or stereotypical accusations about Jews as such, or about the alleged power of Jews as a collective — for example (though not exclusively), myths about a global Jewish conspiracy or Jewish control of the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.
Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined harm committed by a Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non‑Jewish individuals.
Blaming Jews as a people, or the State of Israel as a collective of Jews, for inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust or any other form of extermination.
Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel or to supposed global Jewish priorities than to the interests of their own countries.
Denying Jews their right to self‑determination — for example, by claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Applying double standards by requiring behavior from the State of Israel — as a collective of Jews — that is not expected or demanded of any other democratic country.
Using symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism to characterize the Jewish people.
Trivializing Nazism in any of its forms.