Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices
Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...
Commerzbank
Israel’s Anti-BDS ‘Start-Up’ Ministry
In a wide-ranging interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy officials announced the dawning of a new era in the government’s campaign against Isr...
Op-eds
German State Head Gives BDS Bethlehem Hate Preacher Nearly $32,000
The Green Party president of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, personally delivered in late March a check for €30,000 ($32,000) to a Lutheran pastor in the West Bank who advocate...
Op-eds
Taking the War to the BDS Activists
Israel is in a war against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that includes using preemptive measures to curb the potential impact on the Jewish state, Strategic Affairs Minister Gila...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Exclusive: German bank pulls plug on anti-Israel BDS bank account
The Bank fur Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) has closed the account of a German group that promotes the ...
Op-eds
German Jewish NGOs urge bank to close BDS account
Germany's largest local Jewish community in Berlin called for the Bank für Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) on Monday to shut down an account held by the bank with a hardcore...
Op-eds
German Jewish NGOs urge bank to close BDS account
Germany's largest local Jewish community in Berlin called for the Bank für Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) on Monday to shut down an account held by the bank with a hardcore...
Op-eds
Bank of Ireland shuts down anti-Israel BDS accounts
The Bank of Ireland- the country’s oldest financial institution—shut down the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The termination of the pro-BDS group’s...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...
Op-eds
Netanyahu: “We Have Beaten” Boycott Campaign
Israel has defeated the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed at a Knesset hearing on Monday. Under questioning from...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Second largest German bank shuts anti-Israel BDS account
In the latest of a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jer...
Op-eds
Kudos to Cuomo for leading the way on BDS
Gov. Cuomo’s issuance Sunday of an order banning New York State’s executive branch from doing official business with companies that participate in the boycott of Israel is the opening...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Austrian bank shuts terror account of pro-BDS Austrian-Arab center
The Austrian financial giant Bawag closed the bank account of the pro-BDS Austrian-Arab cultural center (OKAZ), which hosted a Palestinian terrorist in Vienna in April. A spokesman for N...
Op-eds
PayPal terminates anti-Israel BDS France account
PayPal, a global leader in online payment services, blocked payments to the anti-Israel movement Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) chapter in France in May. The Jerusalem Post confirm...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Major French bank closes anti-Israel BDS account
The massive French bank Credit Mutuel shut down the account of La Campagne BDS France amid escalating criticism over the illegal practices of supporting financial transactions that target Israel...