Asaf Romirowsky

May 15, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: May 15, 2024

Today’s Issue: Israel Calls for Investigation After Video Captures Terrorists Inside UNRWA Aid Distribution Point | IDF Spokesman Hagari: Army Operating in Gaza’s North, Center, and South, Including...

July 21, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Asaf Romirowsky

Biden blunders on refugees

President Joe Biden earned deserved modest praise for his visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia last week, restoring confidence in core Middle East alliances. But the president made at least one major misstep:...

July 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Asaf Romirowsky

Germany needs legislation to punish companies for pro-BDS activity

German regional governments and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration continue to ignore the federal parliament’s 2019 resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting...

October 30, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US rebukes Germany for refusal to say Iran’s threat to destroy Israel is anti-Semitic

Threats by Iran to obliterate Israel have been played down by Germany, prompting the Trump administration’s highest-profile ambassador to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel government’s attitude...

August 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

When a Nazi comparison makes sense: The BDS movement against Israel

An excerpt from the op-ed follows: The proliferation of pro-BDS activities in Germany prompted Felix Klein, the German government commissi...

July 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel’s ambassador convinces Berlin’s Jewish museum to cancel BDS speaker

Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about a hardcore anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull...

May 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German bank executives may be included on top 10 list of antisemitism cases

International human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center is considering the inclusion of three senior executives of the German Bank for Social Economy (BFS) on its list of the top ten...

August 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...

January 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Outrage over German Institute’s Hosting of Pro-Hamas, Hezbollah Speaker

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...

September 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal, Sheryl Saperia

Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...

August 8, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How US states can promote Israeli-Palestinian peace

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky The growing number of laws and resolutions approved by US states, designed to block anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions efforts have sen...

August 2, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: The rise of German academic BDS

A German university seminar designed to teach that Israel harvests Palestinians&...

May 11, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How New York can help stop Europe’s rampaging Israel boycotters

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In America, the odious boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel remains largely confined to university humanities departments, l...

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How the United States Mislabels Israel

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In a move uncharacteristic of U.S. policy as it has been carried out for decades, the Obama administration recently endorsed Europe’s version...

May 21, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Mideast Experts Blast European Group’s Call to Punish Israeli Government

Responding to a group calling itself the European Eminent Persons Group on Middle East issues (EEPG),which urged the EU to take unilateral actions against the Jewish state for the stagnate peace...

April 24, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Pro-Hamas Palestinian Conference Sparks Outrage

 A pro-Palestinian conference slated to take place in Berlin on Saturday has come under attack because of its ties to Hamas and its erasure of Israel on a Middle East map. “Th...

January 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky Last week's terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris underscored a fear that has been growing in recent years: Europe is n...

March 14, 2012 | National Post |

Building Palestinian Prosperity

By Alexander Joffe And Asaf Romirowsky The Palestinian cause has never been more marginalized than it is today. That was the message conveyed by Palestinian Prime Minister...

December 19, 2011 | |

Hamas Overtakes the Palestinian Authority in Jordan

By Asaf Romirowsky As of November 29, 2011, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal will visit Jordan officially for the first time since he was expelled in 1999. The meeting showcase...