Far-right German leader: Victory over Nazis ‘day of absolute defeat’
Gauland delivered his comment ahead of the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe started by Nazi Germany.
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German court upholds Munich’s ban of antisemitic BDS campaign
Munich's city council passed in December 2017 a law outlawing BDS events in public facilities due to the antisemitic nature of the campaign against the Jewish state.
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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."
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Wiesenthal Calls for Jewish NGOs to End Business with German Pro-BDS Bank
The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued an urgent appeal last week to Jewish organizations to terminate their business relations with Germany’s top financial enabler of Israeli boycott activitie...
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German Court Says BDS Activist Antisemite, Called Israeli Ministers Nazis
A leading proponent of the boycott campaign targeting Israel suffered a stinging defeat on Monday after he declined to appeal a January court decision in the German city of Munich that ruled in f...
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German Court Allows Labeling Jewish Anti-Zionist Activist as Antisemite
A Munich court ruled in favor of the Bavarian capital’s Jewish community president Charlotte Knobloch on Friday, saying she can term an anti-Zionist Jew’s activity as antisemitic beca...
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Munich First in Germany to Pass Anti-BDS Law
Munich passed a historic bill on Wednesday to ban boycotts of Israel, becoming the first city in Germany to outlaw public funds and space for the BDS campaign. The joint Christian Social...
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Bill Against Israel – Boycott Advances in Munich
Legislators from the two main parties in the Munich City Council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in a committee meeting to approve a bill that would outlaw municipal funding and public space fo...
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German University Town Under Fire For Boycott Activity Against Israel
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and pro-Israel advocates in Germany have expressed their disgust and outrage at the southern German city of Heidelberg for its activit...
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As Antisemitism Rises, Germany Labels Hezbollah Right-Wing Extremist Group
The German government reported to Green Party deputy Volker Beck on Friday an increase in the number of criminal antisemitic acts in the country. This includes Israel-related antisemitism, and th...
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First German City Set To Pass Anti-BDS Bill
City Council members from the two largest parties in Munich – the capital of the German state of Bavaria – submitted a bill banning municipal funding and support for BDS activities in...
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North Carolina Lawmakers Approve Anti-BDS Bill
Legislators from North Carolina's General Assembly passed a bill on Wednesday that would punish companies engaged with state business who participate in ...
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Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits
A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...
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German politicians ignore bank’s BDS account
Co-written by Tamara Zieve. German politicians affiliated with the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) in southern Germany ignore the financial institution’s role in...
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Punish German BDS teachers, say US and Israeli labor-union leaders
Trade-union leaders in Israel and the US urged the federal German teachers’ labor organization this week to take action, including legal measures, against educators in the city of Oldenburg...
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Munich’s Schmock restaurant closes due to Israel-hate
The Jewish owner of Munich's Schmock Israeli restaurant announced on its website its closure after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism in the Bavarian capital. Florian Gl...
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City of Munich cancels BDS event due to antisemitism
Munich's cultural affairs department pulled the plug on an anti- Israel lecture slated for Friday in a city-subsidized building, because the talk would have crossed the line into antisemitis...
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German teachers’ union shreds pro-BDS article
A branch of the German teachers’ union has pulped copies of its September magazine because it included an article advocating a boycott of Israel. The Education and Science Workers&...
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Exclusive: Israel warns German banks over anti-Semitic BDS accounts
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan put a number of German banks on notice that they could face penalties for enabling anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) groups to raise money throu...
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German public university to host boycott Israel lecture
Ruhr University Bochum—one of Germany’s largest public academic institutions—is slated to hold in March a Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment (BDS) lecture targeting the Jewish state...