East Germany

January 24, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Just how useful are the ‘useful idiots’?

Not very. Unlike the PLO, Hamas doesn’t care whether it has Jewish cheerleaders since its goal is to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth.

July 7, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Divided Self of John le Carré

The death of perhaps history’s greatest espionage writer John le Carré in December 2020 sparked a series of lively debates about the British novelist’s contradictory views toward Zionism, Jews and...

February 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism slams university for BDS event

“If anti-Israeli boycott and delegitimization campaigns are directly supported, the line regarding Israel-related antisemitism was crossed."

May 1, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German NGO disinvites Israeli writer for slamming Berlin pro-Iran

Social Democratic Foundation worked with terrorist entity Hezbollah.

April 27, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

No Future For Jews In Germany,’ Says German Jewish Teenager

German Jews explain why they are relocating to Israel.

August 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel’s party’s think tank compares Israel’s security wall to Berlin Wall

The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation – a think tank for German Chance...

June 26, 2018 | Boris Zilberman |

Don’t Underestimate Economic Side of Russia’s Cyber Warfare

Russia knows how to spread chaos and outrage in American politics, but Russia may pose a far greater...

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

November 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Slams BDS Rally On Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller issued a scathing condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott campaign because of its protest against the Jewish state on Friday, the memorial day for the Kristallnac...

October 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel

The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...

August 30, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: BDS initiatives and their counter-efforts play out across Europe

Europe's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement has long percolated down through many layers of society. However, this month saw a range of countervailing forces designed to blunt the mo...

July 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German left-wing radicals say Jews have ‘too much influence’

A study released last week in Berlin showed widespread anti-Semitism among left-wing Germans. According to the academic survey conducted by the Free University of Berlin, 34 percent of t...

January 22, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germans battle refugee sex assaults with signs, cartoons

Rocked by a wave of sexual assaults committed by migrant men, Germany is fighting back with cartoons, in a PC campaign critics say would be comical if it didn’t address such a serious issue...

June 8, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

Who is IS?

Who are they anyway?  IS, the Islamic State, that is. There are two big components:  religious fanatics and totalitarian leaders. The secret of IS’ success lies in combin...

May 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87

German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...

October 25, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Covert Story

There is probably no harder beat in Washington than intelligence.  Journalists rarely have sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency who are not authorized, and when they do, o...

June 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Is Obama a Berliner?

BERLIN — Obama: Ist er ein Berliner? The German weekly Die Zeit posed this question...

August 24, 2012 | |

A Perverse Quid Pro Quo

Sixty-five years after the end of World War II, it's reassuring to know that Germany has 'no place for Neonazis.' A more pressin

August 9, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Outrage Over ‘Anti-Semitic’ German-Iranian Program

The University of Potsdam, located near Berlin, triggered sharp criticism from German academics this week because of its joint academic program with the University of Religions and Denominations,...

June 19, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal Foreign Policy

Drachmail and the New Democrats

Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?