Germany’s Jewish Problem
With anti-Semitism on the march, Germany's politicians and opinion makers are grappling with what went wrong with the country's seven-decade-long struggle to come to terms with its past...
Dieter Graumann
German TV: How Anti-Semitic is Germany?
The German public television station ARD broadcasted last week a documentary film about modern anti-Semitism at the heart of German society. Close observers of contemporary anti-Se...
Op-eds
German Green Party Head High-Fives Iran’s Envoy
BERLIN – Claudia Roth, chairwoman of the large Green Party in Germany, is facing a storm of criticism from media outlets, Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel advocates because she greeted Ira...
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German MPs Do Business with Iran
European politicians in Brussels and Berlin have unleashed a storm of criticism over their planned trips to meet representatives of Iran’s regime. A group of five left-wing MEPs ha...
Op-eds
Arno Lustiger: Historian of Shoah Resistance Dies
Tribute: Writer survived six camps, debunked view that Jews went "like sheep to the slaughter."
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Something Rotten in Germany
On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security....
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Are Jews Safe in Europe?
French authorities brought a recent dramatic standoff with a crazed gunman to an abrupt end when they shot him dead in a house in the southwestern town of Toulouse. Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old...
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German-Iranian Business Forum Sparks Outrage
A pro-Iranian business conference slated for Tuesday in Berlin triggered sharp criticism last week and on Saturday from European-based NGOs and Mideast experts because the event seeks to promote...
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Lip Service is Not Enough
Pro-Israel conference in Frankfurt seeks to change the Merkel administration’s Iran policies.
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Is Germany a True Friend?
Next month, New York will host an event marking the 10th anniversary of another dark hour, the notorious UN-sponsored Durban world conference on racism, which became a platform for some of the wo...
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Germany’s Left Party: Be Disturbed
It has been a while since a leader of a German party called for the political exclusion of the head of Germany's Jews. Last week, Klaus Ernst, co-chairperson of the anti-Israel Left Party, c...
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Passionate About Jew-Hate
Germany's Left Party hard on Israel, remains silent on real human rights abusers
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Concern over German Iran Policies
Only hours before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu touched down in Berlin for talks last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration announced that it would stop pumping billion...
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Boosting Israel’s Enemies
Only hours before German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Berlin on Thursday, her government nailed a deal worth billions of Euros with the greatest...
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German Firms Finance World Champ in Holocaust Denial’
BERLIN – The new president of Germany's 105,000-member Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, launched on Monday a withering attack on German companies, the Merkel administration an...
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Diplomat Slams German-Iranian Trade Ahead of Merkel Trip
BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy, criticized what he said was the planned promotion of German-Iranian trade at a conference on exports to Iran to be...