Mainstream Jewish groups – including the World Jewish Congress, European Jewish Congress, Central Council of Jews in Germany and American Jewish Committee – have urged Schmitz to close the account.
Bank provides account to NGO that promotes website comparing Israel with Nazis
When the Post clicked on the link to the now-defunct Palestine Committee entry, the page reads "Page not found."
"It is quite clear that is an event whose aim and purpose is Israel hatred under guise of a pseudo academia."
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Texas Senate passed an anti-boycott Israel bill by a vote of 26-5 on Thursday. The governor of Texas is slated to sign the anti–BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) legislation on Is...
The Texas House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed legislation that bars the state from doing business with companies involved in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement tar...
The Texas House State Affairs Committee passed on Wednesday a bill banning state contracts and investments in companies that boycott Israel. The anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment,Sanctions)...
Texas has been a hotbed of anti-BDS activity in recent days, with the passage of a bill in the Senate on Wednesday that will bar state contracts and investment in companies that boycott Israel, a...
The German state of Thuringia announced on Friday it will remove a school book with an antisemitic illustration depicting a video game character – alongside the words “Rothschild Bank...
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the city of Halle sparked international criticism because the pro-Hezbollah and allegedly antisemitic activist Norman Finkelstein is slated to...
Germany's Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement because the anti-Israel action is antisemitic. &ldqu...
The mayor of the German city of Oldenburg announced his opposition on Wednesday to the anti-Israel BDS activity of a public school teacher, Christoph Glantz, in the town of nearly 164,000 people...