Germany charges Iranian diplomat in Paris bomb plot
Germany’s federal prosecutor on Wednesday charged Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat based in Vienna, with hiring a Belgium couple of Iranian origin to bomb a Paris- based conference of...
Austria
Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran
The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...
Op-eds
Iran dealt new set back with Austrian airlines cancelling flights
The alpine country’s Austrian Airlines announced on Friday that it will stop service to the Iranian cities Isfahan and Shiraz, delivering another business set back to the Islamic Republic o...
Op-eds
Austria’s Kurz under fire for planned Rouhani meeting
Israeli diplomats complained about Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s planned meeting on July 4 with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Vienna while The Simon Wiesenthal Center and an Au...
Op-eds
Major Austrian Energy Firm to Leave Iran
OMV, a major Austrian energy firm, will no longer resist U.S. efforts to re-impose sanctions on Iran. “Let’s face it, you cannot simply carry on in Iran,”...
Policy Briefs
Austrian government may bar Kuwait Airways because of anti-Israel bias
Kuwait Airways is slated to start flights in and out of Vienna in June. However, Austrian Economics Minister Margarete Schramböck said on Wednesday she could not rule out deny...
Op-eds
Increasing U.S.-Ukraine Cyber Cooperation is a Step in the Right Direction
In early May, the State Department announced a doubling to...
Policy Briefs
Students at Germany’s oldest university reject ‘antisemitic’ BDS campaign
Heidelberg University's student council voted on Tuesday to classify the boycott, divestment, sanctions campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic and bar university space and funds to advocat...
Op-eds
Germany’s antisemitism Czar wants banks to boot antisemitic BDS groups
The newly appointed federal government commissioner for combating Antisemitism in Germany, Felix Klein, condemned the Bank for Social Economy on Thursday for ...
Op-eds
Austrian bank in Iran freezes business fearing U.S. sanctions
Austria’s Oberbank, which, as a result of the 2015 nuclear deal became the first European bank to enter Iran’s financial system, announced it has not moved forward with business trans...
Op-eds
PayPal Shuts Account of French BDS Group with Links to Terrorism
The US online payment service PayPal on Thursday pulled the plug on the account of the French branch of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) - an organization that Israel has accused of al...
Op-eds
Israel Urges Irish Bank to Shut Accounts of Boycott Group
The Israeli government is pushing for the closure of scores of bank accounts provided by the Irish banking giant Allied Irish Bank (AIB) that fund the promotion of anti-Israel boycotts....
Op-eds
Germany Sold Technology to Iran for Use in Syrian Chemical Attacks
Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for a company to sell military applicable technology to Iranian companies that subsequently was used in S...
Op-eds
Israel Urges German Bank to Stop Enabling ‘Antisemitic BDS Movement’
Minister Gilad Erdan demanded that a German bank close an account that enables an anti-Zionist organization to raise funds to boycott the Jewish state and spread antisemitism. “As...
Op-eds
Vienna police charge 3 men for waving Israeli flag at rally
The Vienna police are pursuing criminal charges against three pro-Israel activists for waving an Israeli flag in protest of antisemitic slogans at a demonstration against Jerusalem having been re...
Op-eds
Italy Bars PFLP Terrorist And BDS Advocate Leila Khaled
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was barred from entering Italy on Wednesday on the grounds that she lacked a valid visa. Olga Deutsch, Europe Desk director at the Jerusalem-...
Op-eds
Austrian Students Reject ‘Antisemitic’ Boycott Israel Campaign
The Austrian National Union of Students passed on Friday a motion against BDS, saying that the boycott movement targeting Israel is antisemitic, and that its demands recall the Nazis’ econo...
Op-eds
Iranian Mosques in Austria, Germany Slam Women and Israel
Iranian regime-controlled mosque probed by the Austrian Integration Fund doesn't recognize Israel — regardless of its boundaries. Iranian regime-controlled mosques in Vienna a...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
UN embrace of anti-Israel BDS movement endangers the very peace it claims to support
While the United States and many European countries continue to oppose the anti-Israel boycott movement because it imposes a double-standard and harms peace efforts, the United Nations is set to...