The Generalitat finances an entity that promoted the Jewish business map of Catalonia.
Two organisations promoted the BarcelonaZ project. One lives off public funds from Europe, the Generalitat and local councils; the other belongs to the most radical university activism.
Map of the Jewish businesses of Barcelona
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By the end of 2025 the medium Jewish approach He denounced a project called BarcelonaZ, which caused serious alarm both within and outside Catalonia. The project consisted of a public, interactive and collaborative map identifying Jewish businesses, Jewish schools, Israeli companies and multinationals operating in Israel in Catalonia.a. After the complaints, the GoGoCarto platform removed the project from its website for being dangerous and discriminatory.
Among the marked spaces They included kosher shops, service companies, financial institutions and Jewish schools, such as the Hatikva College in Barcelona, described on the map as a centre that “indoctrinates children and adolescents with Zionist values”. The project encouraged users“ participation by inviting them to add new ”Zionist" establishments and to share the map.
The origin of the BarcelonaZ project has come to light following an investigation by NGO Monitor. This Jerusalem-based organisation specialises in analysing the role of NGOs in political conflicts. The investigation shows that behind the promotion of the map are two specific Catalan entities that acted as amplifiers and legitimisers of the project.
Who promoted BarcelonaZ?
According to NGO Monitor, the public dissemination of the BarcelonaZ project was neither spontaneous nor marginal. On 6 October 2025, Engineers Without Borders – Catalonia and Universities with Palestine jointly published on social media a message explicitly supporting the map., encouraging “collaboration and dissemination”. Although it was presented as an “independent” project driven by third parties, publicly promoting it served to publicise a tool that labelled Jewish institutions, educational centres and businesses under a single ideological label. Without this support, BarcelonaZ would have struggled to gain visibility and normalisation in the Catalan public sphere.
First Instagram post by Universities for Palestine and Engineers Without Borders promoting BarcelonaZ
Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders It presents itself as an NGO dedicated to international cooperation and to the promotion of a “A just society that excludes no one”In its public documentation it states that it is based on principles such as non-discrimination, secularism, political neutrality, and respect and dialogue. This value framework is what allows it to operate in educational and institutional settings and to access public programmes.
According to the European Union Financial Transparency System, Between 2019 and 2023, the NGO was a partner in two European projects with a total budget of approximately €2.4 million., of which at least €140,188 was received directly by the entity.. The funded project was called Empowering women to act against energy poverty in the Mediterranean, integrated into a European initiative with a total budget of’1.9 million euros. Furthermore, between 2021 and 2021, Engineers Without Borders It participated as a partner in another European grant of €500,000 entitled “Strengthening agricultural cooperatives and rural women's organisations to enforce the human right to food and food sovereignty in El Salvador."”.
These funds are subject to strict clauses on non-discrimination, ideological neutrality and respect for fundamental rights. However, in reports and materials circulated in educational settings, Engineers Without Borders has accused Israel of “genocide” and has claimed the so-called “Palestinian resistance” as an expression of the struggle of oppressed peoples.
ESF participates in the programmes channelled and managed in Catalonia through the Public Employment Service of Catalonia, under the responsibility of the Generalitat. This means that the Catalan administration is not a bystander but the authority that validates, supervises and legitimises the entity as a recipient of public funds.
A shower of public money on Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders does not rely on one-off donations: its financial muscle comes mainly from public funds. In 2024 and 2025 the organisation has amassed grants from various administrations, with the Generalitat of Catalonia as the main actor through different departments and agencies. In 2024 alone, The Catalan Cooperation Agency for Development granted the NGO more than €613,000., a figure that places the entity among the biggest beneficiaries in the field of cooperation. Added to this is the continued support of the Barcelona City Council, which between late 2023 and throughout 2024 awarded at least seven grants under the International Cooperation and Global Justice programmes. The total amount charged to the Barcelonians exceeds €300,000..
In 2025, the flow of public money does not stop: The Generalitat restarts funding the entity through the Public Employment Service of Catalonia and the Department for External Action, with more than €120,000 additional in recruitment and foreign action programmes.
If you broaden the view to the full period for which data are available (2022–2025), the figure is even more striking. During this period, Engineers Without Borders has received several million euros in public funds from the Generalitat, the State and a wide range of local authorities. In addition to Barcelona, the list includes municipalities such as Tarragona, Girona, L'Hospitalet, Reus, Manresa, Rubí, Gavà and Sant Boi, as well as the provincial councils of Barcelona and Girona. Between them all, Engineers Without Borders has received at least 3 million euros in public funds between 2022 and 2025.
Universities with Palestine: radical university activism
Universities with Palestine is defined by NGO Monitor as a network of anti-Israel organisations led by Catalan professors and students, with a presence in the university sector.. It is not registered as a recipient of public funding from the Generalitat or European funds, but it acts as a platform for political mobilisation within universities.
This entity took part in a “People's Tribunal on Complicity in the Palestinian Genocide in the Spanish State”, held at the Complutense University of Madrid. At this event hand various NGOs and individuals internationally noted for their links to terrorist organisations or for its justification. Among them are Samidoun, Masar Badil, Al-Haq and Raji Sourani. These kinds of initiatives place the UAP in the orbit of the most radical university activism and explain its alignment with projects such as BarcelonaZ.
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