Christian Democratic Union of Germany

September 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Calls To End Iranian Center’s German City Contract Due To Israel Hate

A leading politician from the city of Hamburg urged on Monday the cancellation of the city’s contract with an Iranian-regime controlled institution because it participates in the annual al-...

August 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt Seeks To Ban ‘Deeply Antisemitic’ BDS

The deputy mayor of Frankfurt, Uwe Becker, submitted a bill on Wednesday that would ban municipal funds and space being used for activities that aim to boycott Israel. Becker, a leading...

July 18, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Berlin Mayor Rebuked Over Imam’s Call to Kill Jews and Stone Women

A Danish imam convicted for inciting hate after he preached for the extermination of Jews during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014 appeared on Friday in Berlin at a radical mosque,...

June 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Vienna Hotel Cancels BDS Talk By South African Terrorism Financier

The Hotel Arcotel pulled the plug on a BDS event last week with Farid Esack, a South African Islamic theologian, who has raised money for a Palestinian terrorist. The planned talk titled...

May 24, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pro-BDS Professor Declines Dartmouth College Dean Position

A professor of Native American studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire who co-authored a declaration urging the boycott of Israeli educational institutions walked back his acceptance as the...

May 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Social Democratic Party Declares BDS Antisemitic

Members of Berlin's Social Democratic Party (SPD) passed a resolution on Saturday in support of Israel, condemning the boycott,divestment,sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state....

May 8, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Lawmakers Urge FIFA to Reject Palestinian Demand to Kick Israel Out

A cross-party group of German parliamentary deputies sent a letter to the head of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Wednesday, urging him to reject a Palestinian camp...

April 27, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Germany’s Social Democrats Pivot Toward PLO and Iran

German Foreign and Vice Chancellor Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s move to pick a fight with Benjamin Netanyahu come as no surprise to longterm observers of Gabriel and his Social Democratic Part...

March 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany MPS Investigate Pro-Hezbollah Academic Finkelstein

In a dramatic widening of an academic antisemitism scandal at the Max Planck Institute for the promotion of lectures delivered by a pro-Hezbollah instructor, German Green Party lawmakers began a...

March 16, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Frankfurt Mayor Urges Cancellation of BDS ‘Dont Buy From Jews’ Event

Frankfurt Mayor Uwe Becker hammered a pro-Palestinian group on Monday and Wednesday for promoting a Nazi-style boycott against Israel and told a local center to cancel a June event with the organ...

March 14, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Event Triggers Outrage in German City

The German Jewish community in the city of Bonn and a leading social democratic MP on Friday called on a foundation to pull the plug on an event propagating a boycott against the Jewish state....

February 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Party Condemns BDS, Compares Movement to Pre-WWII Antisemitism

German politicians from the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) in Hamburg submitted a resolution in early February calling on the state senate to take decisive action against the anti-Israel...

January 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Remove Terror Sponsor From German University, Says Israel Ambassador

Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ya’acov Hadas-Handelsman urged the University of Hamburg to dismiss South African Islamic theologian Farid Esack, who has been accused of antisemitism, p...

January 25, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinian Terror Group Backer Teaching at German University, Sparks Row

University of Hamburg appoints as guest professor Farid Esack, who is the chairman of BDS South Africa

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

January 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Weaponizing Refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Willkomenskultur (“Welcome culture”) refugee policy of last year has screeched to a grinding halt. Delivering an early December speech at her C...

December 7, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Chancellor Merkel’s party labels BDS antisemitic

Germany's Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement because the anti-Israel action is antisemitic. &ldqu...

November 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German organizers of Kristallnacht memorial sought to ban Israeli flag

Organizers from the "Walk of Remembrance” to commemorate the persecution of Jews in the northern German city of Oldenburg attempted on Thursday to ban the Israeli flag from the ceremony....

August 25, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Merkel party politician: Green Party minister ignored anti-Semitism at university

A leading state politician from the Christian Democratic Union, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, slammed a Green Party minister in the state of Lower Saxony for failing to rope in an allege...

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...