Christian Democratic Union of Germany

February 28, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

How Germany’s new leader can make history

Friedrich Merz is in favor of boosting Europe’s military strength, standing against antisemites and by the Jewish state, and getting tougher on Iran.

January 8, 2025 | Clifford D. May

Border security is national security

That used to be common knowledge

September 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German ‘anti-Semitism commissioner’ who enables BDS, Jew-hatred and Iran

Rabbi Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center said re Blume that 'the job of an anti-Semitism commissioner is to fight it and not spread it.'

September 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Making sense of German electorate’s shift to the Left

Israel should not be under any delusion that the Social Democratic Party has its back. If anything, the slide to the Left, as it is being called in Germany, has serious implications for the Jewish state.

August 25, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s ‘anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools’ enters a third century

The Social Democrats need to reverse their pro-Iranian regime and pro-Palestinian terrorism policies, or it will be business as usual.

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...

July 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must implement its anti-BDS policy

Pro-boycott sentiments are present in many federal ministries and state governments.

July 4, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German Green Party’s Antisemitism Problem

With German federal elections set for September 26, the center-left German Green Party is polling well, and has a solid chance to be part of the next government. For many German Jews and Israel, and...

November 27, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US ambassador blasts German economics minister for China communist comparison

The U.S. ambassador to Germany chided Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economics affairs minister for drawing an insulting parallel between communist China and America. Richard Grenell did not mention...

September 9, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Mainstream Parties Vote For Neo-Nazi As Community Leader

Stefan Jagsch is a member of the neo-Nazi party National Democratic Party of Germany that supports a boycott of the Jewish state.

June 6, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German educational center sides with BDS, sabotages Israel event

The German-Israel Society of Aachen issued a statement on its Facebook page: "We don't understand the behavior of the representative of our co-organizer, the Aachen Adult Education Center."

May 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Minister Helped Reverse Berlin’s Anti-Israel UN Voting Record

Jens Spahn, a prominent member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet, played a critical part in rolling-back Germany's anti-Israel voting record.

March 16, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s parliament favors Merkel’s anti-Israel U.N. voting pattern

Political representatives in Germany’s Bundestag overwhelmingly rejected a resolution by the Free Democratic Party to urge Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to reverse its anti-Israel voting r...

March 14, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel’s ambassador shocked over PFLP terrorist speech in Berlin

Envoy expects Berlin to draw a redline and stop visit of Rasmea Odeh.

December 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel’s party rejects freeze of funds for Palestinian terrorism

embers of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union Party voted against a motion on Saturday in Hamburg to stop public funds for the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and...

December 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Public Security Minister Erdan urges German bank to close BDS accounts

Bank provides account to NGO that promotes website comparing Israel with Nazis

October 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Anti-racism’ rally in Berlin calls for destruction of Israel

Demonstrators at the march hoisted symbols in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

September 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.

September 20, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German state parliament bans BDS while anti-Israel bank defies resolution

The parliament of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia slammed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state as ...

September 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Governor Opens Israel Office, Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Iran Trade

Armin Laschet, the powerful governor of the largest German state North ...