BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel-Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted the event .

Spain’s top diplomat José Manuel Albares said late on Thursday that he would “understand and be in favor” of the Israeli team being removed from the race, while adding that his government doesn’t claim to have the power to do so. He made the statement in response to a question by a journalist on Spain’s national radio RNE.

“We have to send a message to Israel and the Israeli society that Europe and Israel can only have normal relations when human rights are respected,” Albares said.

The protest that stopped the race

Wednesday’s protest in the northern ci

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