(JTA) – The front door of a synagogue in Barcelona, Spain was vandalized by unidentified perpetrators who spray painted “free Palestine” on it. The incident happened Sept. 4 at the Synagogue of the Jewish Community of Barcelona, the El Nacional website reported. News of the incident at the Jewish community’s main house of worship prompted much rebuke online. “Confusing a synagogue with the State of Israel reflects a racist mentality,” Jaume Padrós, president of the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona, wrote on Twitter. The police are investigating but have no suspects.

Separately, a court in southern Spain on Sept. 2 nullified the adoption of a boycott of Israel as policy at the town of La Rambla near Cordoba. The city council of La Ramble passed a resolution declaring itself a “space free of Israeli apartheid” and a supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the Jewish state, or BDS. The pro-Israel group ACOM petitioned the court to nullify the resolution, which the Contentious Administrative Court number 3 of Cordoba did on Sept. 2. The resolution, the judge wrote, runs “contrary to the principle of equality and non-discrimination,” ACOM wrote in a statement Thursday. So far, legal initiatives by ACOM have resulted in the scrapping of 47 resolutions promoting BDS.