The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...
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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...
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Public Security Minister Erdan urges German bank to close BDS accounts
Bank provides account to NGO that promotes website comparing Israel with Nazis
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‘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.
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Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.
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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 ...
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German Governor Opens Israel Office, Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Iran Trade
Armin Laschet, the powerful governor of the largest German state North ...
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Top German Social Democrat Urges Bank to End Israel Boycott Support
Michaela Engelmeier, a member of the executive board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, demanded that the Bank for Social Economy stop providing accounts to groups that support the Boycot...
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German governor boycotts anti-Israel music festival affiliated with BDS
Armin Laschet, the governor of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announced on Tuesday that he will not attend the Ruhrtriennale arts and music festival because it has n...
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German meddling in U.S. politics and Trump foreign policy triggers sharp rebuke from GOP Senators
German interference in the U.S. political system as means of countering President Trump’s foreign policy agenda has sparked sharp criticism from Republican senators. There has been...
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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...
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Frankfurt Deputy Mayor Declares Bands that Support BDS are not Welcome
Uwe Becker, the deputy mayor and city treasurer for Frankfurt, announced on Tuesday that artists who support the boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state are not welcome in...
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U.S. and U.K. Bands Boycott Berlin Event Due to Israeli Embassy Donation
US singer John Maus announced his withdrawal from the Berlin Pop-Kultur music festival due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He is the fourth musical act t...
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German Politicians Want Iran-Regime Center Ousted Over Antisemitism
Politicians in the northern German city of Hamburg rekindled on Monday a call from last year to cancel the city’s contract with an Iranian-regime controlled institution because it participa...
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German bank enabling ‘antisemitic BDS’ banned from business with Frankfurt
The Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy will be forbidden to conduct business with the city of Frankfurt – Germany’s financial capital – because of the bank’s accounts f...
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NGO Monitor urges Germany to halt antisemitic aid arm in Gaza, West Bank
The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on the German government on Friday to immediately halt the activities and funding of its Corporation for International Cooperation operating in Jordan, the...
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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 Bank Enables Pro-BDS NGO that Supports IDF Deserters
A German bank has been catapulted into an anti-Israel scandal because it provides an account to an NGO that supports Israelis who desert from or refuse to serve in the IDF. The Jerusalem...
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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...
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What Does Today’s German Election Mean For Israel?
The German federal election on Sunday has tremendous significance for Israel, largely because the Federal Republic is one of Israel’s most important allies within the European Union....