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November 17, 2010
UN Mulling Durban III Event for Next Year
A United Nations committee met Tuesday in New York to discuss a 2011 commemoration of the first UN anti-racism conference held nine years ago in Durban, South Africa, that turned out to be an Isr...
November 14, 2010
Austrian Intel Agency Engulfed in Neo-Nazi Scandal
Austria’s domestic intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz, which is responsible for combating terrorism and neo-Nazi extremism, was plagued by disclosures last week in an APA news report of...
November 11, 2010
German Mayor Nixes ‘One-Sided’ Nakba Exhibit
The mayor of Freiburg, Dieter Salomon, pulled the plug on a Palestinian “Nakba” exhibit, which was slated to open on Friday in the local library, because “from the perspective o...
November 11, 2010
Arabs “Bullied” UNESCO to Make Landmarks Resolutions
Nimrod Barkan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that the five decisions against Jewish landmark...
November 8, 2010
Diplomat Knocks Frankfurt Mayor for Honoring Anti-Zionist
The city of Frankfurt’s decision to honor French academic Alfred Grosser “casts an unfortunate and unnecessary shadow on the event” to commemorate the persecution of Jews in Ger...
November 8, 2010
NGO Monitor Slams UN for Iran Election to Women’s Agency
The slated United Nations (UN) election of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to a new UN agency devoted to women’s rights (UN Women) prompted sharp criticism last week from Anne Herzberg,...
November 4, 2010
Dershowitz: Goldstone Follow-Up Commission Head a ‘Bigot’
Legal experts in the United States and a Geneva-based nongovernmental organization are criticizing and questioning the credentials of the German law professor appointed to implement the findings...
November 2, 2010
Kadima MK Calls on German Government to Confront Iran
Kadima’s director-general and MK Yohanan Plesner told over 1,000 Israel supporters on Sunday at a historic German conference titled Together for Israel, devoted exclusively to promoting sol...
September 2, 2010
Why Are Germans Upset Over Critic of Islam?
“Everyone’s against Sarrazin!” was the headline that Bild,Germany’s largest daily newspaper, chose for its Tuesday issue. Deutsche Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin h...
August 25, 2010
Amnesty Int’l Finland: Israel Scum State
The head of Amnesty International’s Finnish branch, Frank Johansson, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that he stands by his statement that Israel is a “scum state.” W...
August 19, 2010
Swiss-Iran Gas Deal Sends ‘Wrong Message’
BERLIN – Swiss energy giant EGL’s €18 billion gas contract with Iran prompted criticism on Tuesday from the US Embassy. "As we noted in the past when this deal was first...
August 17, 2010
Obama Shows Europe Some Love
Last spring, the Obama administration sent the president's regrets for a planned European Union-U.S. summit in Madrid in May. "Because of the changes involving the establishment of a E.U. Co...
August 17, 2010
Turks Hit PKK with Chemical Weapons
BERLIN – German politicians called on Thursday for an international investigation into the reported use of chemical weapons by the Turkish military. The weapons were used against members of...
July 28, 2010
German Firms Continue Trading with Iran Despite Sanctions Policy
Berlin - Business between German firms and Iran is pretty good and goes on largely unimpressed by demands made by Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union) and Anton Boerner, Presiden...
July 28, 2010
Italian Lawmakers: Put IHH on EU Terrorist List
A group of lawmakers in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies are pushing for the Turkish IHH relief organization to be added to the European Union’s list of terrorist entities, Sharon Nizza, a...
July 26, 2010
Goldstone Committee Head Denies Bias
The chairman of the UN committee responsible for following up on the findings of the Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead acknowledged on Saturday that he had helped prepare an advisory opinio...
July 23, 2010
Germany Robs Sanctions of Their Power
Germany is facing escalating criticism from local anti-nuclear activists and a sanctions expert in the United States for blocking tough EU sanctions against Iran, and specifically for not acting...
July 13, 2010
Germany Bans IHH for Hamas Links
Germany has banned the Frankfurt-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) because it “fights against Israel’s right to exist.” &ldqu...
July 6, 2010
Germany Bashing Israel to Expiate Holocaust Guilt
Where do boundless enthusiasm for soccer and and turning Israel into a diplomatic punching bag cross paths? In Germany, where preoccupation with its team’s chance to win the World Cup in So...
July 1, 2010
Jewish Leaders Slam German Resolutions
The German parliament was slated on Thursday evening to discuss and vote on resolutions slamming the Jewish state for its interception of a flotilla heading for Gaza in open violation of a naval...
June 30, 2010
Yale Expands YIISA Center
“We are witnessing a profound level of dehumanization of Israelis and by extension the Jewish people,” Dr.Charles Small, the head of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Stud...
June 24, 2010
Austrian Chancellor to Arrive in Israel
Social Democratic Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann is slated to arrive in Israel on Wednesday. Faymann will be the first foreign head of state to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sin...
June 17, 2010
Germany’s ‘Growing Displeasure With Israeli Conduct’
Shimon Stein, a former Israeli Ambassador to Germany, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that the decision of Germany’s top prosecutor to issue an extradition order for an alleged Israeli...
June 17, 2010
Spanish Jewish Leader Promotes Solidarity With Israel
David Hatchwell Altaras, the vice president of the 10,000- member Jewish community in Madrid, is part of a new group of Spanish...
April 29, 2010
White House Seeks to Soften Iran Sanctions
The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concer...
April 20, 2010
Senate Passes Iran Sanctions Bill
"Gasoline sanctions have been characterized by some as a silver bullet which would cripple the Iranian economy and inflict a mortal wound on the regime, while others have deplored the sanctions as...
April 20, 2010
U.S. Sanctions IRGC Engineering Firms
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Mark Dubowitz said today's designation was a good start, given the dominant role of the parent firm (whose full name is Gharargah Sazandegi-ye Khatam...
April 20, 2010
Lieberman, McCain Push Iran Human Rights Bill
Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman, along with eight other co-sponsors, announced a bipartisan bill Thursday to try to curb civil rights abuses in Iran. The legislation, which would be the...
April 20, 2010
Impatient Congress Strikes Out on Its Own to Sanction Iran
Growing impatient with the Obama administration's Iran policy, members of Congress from both parties are proposing a variety of get-tough measures of their own. The moves, which include both sancti...
April 20, 2010
Conflicting Signals on Iran Gasoline Shipments, Sanctions
Conflicting reports continue to circulate regarding the recent decisions of two of Iran's largest's gasoline suppliers to stop sending shipments to Iran as part of broad efforts to pres...
April 20, 2010
Lukoil Pulls Out of Iran to Applause
The decision by Russian energy giant Lukoil to stop shipping gasoline to Iran shows its activity on the world stage is unattractive to investors, advocates say. Oil trader Lukoil said it wou...
April 20, 2010
Iran May Evade U.S. Sanctions as U.A.E. Delivers Fuel
A U.S. effort to pressure Iran into nuclear concessions by curbing gasoline imports may have little impact because the United Arab Emirates and other countries are willing to keep shipping fuel t...
April 20, 2010
Iran Deserves Targeted Sanctions
Investors in the Iranian energy sector should follow the example of world bankers through tough sanctions to punish post-election Tehran, analysts say. Tehran earned the ire of the internati...
April 20, 2010
Ex-CIA Boss Urges Curbs on Oil Firms Supplying Iran
A former CIA director says companies that sell Iran refined petroleum products must be punished as the country gets closer to making a nuclear bomb. "Any kind of dealing with companies such...
April 20, 2010
Obama Wins Praise for Orchestrating Response to Iran
President Barack Obama always said he'd be willing to meet with rogue nations such as Iran without preconditions, but he never said he wouldn't try to set the stage. The revelation Friday th...
April 20, 2010
U.S. Lawmaker to Push Iran Gasoline Sanctions Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Friday revelations about Iran's new secret uranium enrichment facility hav...
April 20, 2010
U.S. Eyes Insurers, Fuel in Iran Sanctions Strategy
President Barack Obama warned Iran last week to come clean about the program, which Washington fears is a cover to build atomic weapons, or face "sanctions that bite." His warning followed the disc...
April 20, 2010
Iran Subsidy Reform to Soften Fuel Sanction Punch
Iran's parliament is poised to vote next week on a government bill that would cut energy and food subsidies and could make the Islamic Republic less vulnerable to sanctions. The measures cou...
April 20, 2010
Reliance Industries Ceases Gasoline Sale to Iran
WASHINGTON: A non-profit organisation On Thursday said Reliance Industries has stopped gasoline sale to Iran, following a group of US Congressmen urging the country's Exim bank to suspend assistanc...
April 20, 2010
DOE Should Review Vitol SPR Contract
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- American lawmakers have raised questions about a U.S. oil purchase from Swiss energy company Vitol over the firm's Iran ties and Iraq sanction violations. The U....
April 20, 2010
U.S. Lawmakers Scorn Vitol SPR Contract
WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- U.S. lawmakers and advocacy groups voiced concerns over a contract awarded to Swiss-Dutch firm Vitol to fill U.S. petroleum reserves due to its ties to Iran. The...
April 15, 2010
Petronas Halts Fuel Sales to Iran as Sanctions Loom
KUALA LUMPUR/DUBAI (Reuters) - Malaysia's Petronas has stopped supplying gasoline to Iran, a company spokesman said on Thursday, as the threat of U.S. sanctions on oil firms with supply ties to the...
April 14, 2010
Russia’s Lukoil Flees Iran
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- A decision by Russia's Lukoil to postpone work on an oil project in Iran shows the push to sanction Tehran for its nuclear work is working, advocates said. Russ...
March 18, 2010
FACTBOX: What Iran Experts are Saying about Sanctions
Reuters spoke to analysts at U.S. think-tanks and industry sources to canvass their views on the effectiveness of any sanctions that Washington and its allies may consider imposing on Iran....
March 18, 2010
FACTBOX: U.S. Weighs Sanctions Options for Iran
(Reuters) - The Obama administration has consulted outside experts as it weighs possible sanctions on Iran that could target its gasoline imports and insurers that underwrite the trade, among other...
March 16, 2010
Analysts: Iran deserves targeted sanctions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Investors in the Iranian energy sector should follow the example of world bankers through tough sanctions to punish post-election Tehran, analysts say. Tehran ea...
February 18, 2010
Top Terror Prosecutor Is a Critic of Civilian Trials
He was the lead prosecutor 15 years ago in one of the country’s biggest terrorism trials: a group of men led by a blind Egyptian sheik had plotted to blow up the United Nations, the Lincoln...
November 13, 2009
UN in Darfur Lets Members Feel Right at Home
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- When Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi spoke at the United Nations in September, he suggested moving the organization from New York to New Delhi or Beijing. Both are excellent...
April 29, 2009
Source: Germany and Switzerland Paid Ransom for Kidnapped Canadian Diplomats
Germany and Switzerland paid al-Qaeda's North African branch a ransom of approximately US$8 million for the release of four hostages, including Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Gua...
February 25, 2007
A Deadly Stumbling Block Named the PKK
Co-Authored with Soner Cagaptay On February 6, Belgian police arrested Riza Altun, chief of European operations of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A day earlier...
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