Unidentified individuals smashed several headstones at the Jewish cemetery of Les Corts in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday, in what Israel’s foreign ministry tied to the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s “anti-Israel campaign.”

“We condemn the vandalism of the Jewish cemetery in Barcelona. This despicable act is a result of the anti-Israel campaign by the Sánchez government. We stand with Spain’s Jewish community. Antisemitism must never be normalized and must be firmly rejected in all societies,” a spokesperson wrote on the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s X account.

Local Jews said the incident was a case of antisemitic hatred amid an ongoing of wave of hostility to Jews, but stopped short of blaming the government in a statement by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain (FCJE) and the Jewish Community of Barcelona (CJB) on Sunday. The two groups said they “condemn in the strongest possible terms the despicable antisemitic act of desecration and vandalism of several graves in the Les Corts Jewish Cemetery.”