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October 21, 2024 | David Adesnik |

How Facebook Whitewashes ‘From the River to the Sea’

The brilliance of the slogan “From the river to the sea,” is that it allows protesters to call for dismantling the State of Israel, and then insist that they have articulated nothing more than “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence.” ...

June 21, 2023 | Orde Kittrie, David May

UN Report Ignores Palestinian Terrorism, Blasts U.S. Supporters Of Israel

A 27-nation coalition led by the United States today rightly condemned the United Nations commission of inquiry (COI) investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

November 12, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The May 2021 Israel-Hamas war was a stress test for normalization

With the signing of the Abraham Accords last year, a rare sense of optimism washed over the Middle East. Many in Israel believed that these agreements signaled that the Arab world had given up on the Palestinian...

June 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution

He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.

September 8, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador To ‘Post’ Tehran Mayor Should Be On U.S./EU Sanctions List

Mayor Pirouz Hanachi of Tehran will meet his counterpart Michael Müller in Berlin.

September 5, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor To Host Iranian Counterpart Who Called For Israel’s Demise

Michael Müller is facing criticism for failing to curb rising antisemitism in the German capital by hosting a meeting on Friday with Tehran’s mayor Pirouz Hanachi.

May 14, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Labor Union Youth Organization Rejects BDS

Ver.di and its subdivisions are in solidarity with the activities of our partners in the trade union confederations Histadrut and PGFTU [The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions].

April 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal Center urges removal of Anne Frank’s name from NGO due to Antisemitism

Alleged Anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist and Israel-hater Daniel Bax is slated to speak at the Anne Frank Educational Center.

February 22, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Foundation Under Fire for Awarding Prize to Antisemitic BDS Group

The group is called Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and is an energetic supporter of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state.

December 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Public Security Minister Erdan urges German bank to close BDS accounts

Bank provides account to NGO that promotes website comparing Israel with Nazis

October 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Post Exposé causes German city to remove BDS advertisement

When the Post clicked on the link to the now-defunct Palestine Committee entry, the page reads "Page not found."

September 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel slams German academy hosting of Hezbollah, Hamas, BDS supporters

"It is quite clear that is an event whose aim and purpose is Israel hatred under guise of a pseudo academia."

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...

May 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Antisemitism czar slams German cartoon as ‘Nazi propaganda’

The federal commissioner for combating antisemitism in Germany, Felix Klein, blasted Germany’s largest broadsheet paper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) on Wednesday for publishing an antisemi...

April 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German LGBT group closes bank account to protest BDS activity

The Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation – named after a gay German-Jewish scientist who was persecuted by the Nazis – has terminated its account with the Bank for Social Economy over the fin...

April 9, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

International Jewish NGOs urge German bank to stop enabling BDS

Leading establishment Jewish organizations in Europe, the United States and Israel called on the German Bank for Social Economy last week to pull the plug on its accounts held with groups that pr...

February 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

EU Parliament Politicians Call for a Full Ban of Hezbollah

Members of the European Union parliament sent a letter on Thursday to EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, urging her to classify all of the Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist e...

January 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

AJC Calls for Berlin to Expel Iranian Ambassador for Spying on Israel

The Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee urged Germany’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to expel Iran’s ambassador because of his country’s alleged spying on Israel&rsq...

November 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Slams BDS Rally On Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller issued a scathing condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott campaign because of its protest against the Jewish state on Friday, the memorial day for the Kristallnac...

May 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Texas Governor Signs Anti-BDS Bill on Israel’s Independence Day

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed on Tuesday -- Israel's day of independence -- a robust anti-boycott Israel bill into law. The bill bans state entities from engaging in business with organi...