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March 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran’s Role in the Boycott Israel Campaign

The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged g...

July 25, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...

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...

March 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Mehr Nachdruck gegen Dämonisierung Israels

Im Gegensatz zu Deutschland bekämpft Österreich aktuell den modernen Antisemitismus. Mit dieser Haltung macht Österreich Schule. Dies zeigt sich z. B. an zwei Beispielen, die j&uum...

February 23, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austria’s parliament set to honor pro-Hamas, pro-BDS Jew who fled Nazis

An Austrian Parliament event partially devoted to women survivors of the Holocaust is reaping a whirlwind of criticism because it honors a German-born American Jewish woman who opposes Israel&rsq...

February 23, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian parliament nixes event honoring pro-Hamas, anti- Israel Jew who fled Nazis

The spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian parliament informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that an event slated to honor Hedy Epstein - an anti-Zionist Jew and defender of Hamas - has bee...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German city awards US NGO with ties to Holocaust deniers 10,000 prize

The Bavarian city of Bayreuth is slated to award 10,000 euros in April to a US-based activist group - Code Pink - that supports a boycott of the Jewish state and has participated in a conference...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German mayor opposes 10,000 euro award to anti-Semitic group Code Pink

The mayor of the German city of Bayreuth, Brigitte Merk-Erbe, said on Thursday that she rejects awarding the city’s tolerance prize to the radical US NGO Code Pink because of its ties with...

January 31, 2011 | Jerusalem Post

Diplomat Slams German-Iranian Trade Ahead of Merkel Trip

BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy, criticized what he said was the planned promotion of German-Iranian trade at a conference on exports to Iran to be...

January 17, 2011 | Jerusalem Post

Germany is Encouraging Trade with Teheran’

BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy in Germany, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that two seminars jointly sponsored by the German Economic Ministry...

January 11, 2011 | The Jerusalem Post

Data Shows German Trade with Iran Increased in 2010

BERLIN – Despite new rounds of UN and EU sanctions in 2010, German-Iranian export and import trade showed increases last year, according to an examination of new German government trade sta...