Germany slated to allow Palestinian terrorist to speak in Berlin
Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is prepared to allow convicted Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Rasmea Odeh to speak at an event in Berlin.
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Anne Frank center compares Jews fleeing Nazis to Islamic State terrorists
Colonel Richard Kemp, who was a former Commander of Operation Fingal in Afghanistan, wrote on Twitter: “A terrible insult by @BS_AnneFrank. They should delete this disgraceful tweet.”
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German Foundation Under Fire for Awarding Prize to Antisemitic BDS Group
The group is called Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and is an energetic supporter of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state.
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German Crack Down on BDS? Three Anti-Israel Events Cancelled Recently
The first event, featuring pro-BDS activist Shir Hever who was slated to speak on “Israel’s Right-Wing Friends in Europe and in the US,” was scheduled to take place in January in the city of Bonn.
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Three German Organizations Finance Palestinian Group Employing Terrorists
Former senior official of terrorist group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, now leads Al-Haq, Palestinian human rights NGO.
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German center for antisemitism research hires alleged ‘antisemite’
“You would imagine something like this would be done in Iran. Set up an institute to study antisemitism and invite antisemites to work there.”
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Post Exposé causes German city to remove BDS advertisement
When the Post clicked on the link to the now-defunct Palestine Committee entry, the page reads "Page not found."
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German city promotes boycott-Israel group on its website
The city’s promotion of the pro-BDS group comes in stark contrast to the anti-BDS resolution passed on Sunday by the state’s Green Party at its conference.
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Why is Germany Silent on Corbyn’s Praise of Munich Terrorists?
The barn-burning revelations in the British newspaper Daily Mail in August that ...
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Merkel’s party’s think tank compares Israel’s security wall to Berlin Wall
The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation – a think tank for German Chance...
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Israel blasts German festival for mainstreaming anti-Israel BDS
The Israeli Embassy in Berlin on Thursday slammed the German music and cultural Ruhrtriennale festival for providing a platform to negate the existence of the Jewish state. “We wil...
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Calls for German Festival director to resign over BDS support
The artistic director of a music festival in the west German city of Bochum is facing growing pressure to resign because of her intense defense of a boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state....
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Austria’s Kurz under fire for planned Rouhani meeting
Israeli diplomats complained about Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s planned meeting on July 4 with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Vienna while The Simon Wiesenthal Center and an Au...
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German LGBT group closes bank account to protest BDS activity
The Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation – named after a gay German-Jewish scientist who was persecuted by the Nazis – has terminated its account with the Bank for Social Economy over the fin...
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German diplomats defend Kuwait Airways’ ‘no Israelis allowed’ policy
German diplomats have said accusations of antisemitism against Kuwait Airways for its practice of refusing Israeli passengers are exaggerated, triggering sharp criticism from the Simon Wiesenthal...
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Exclusive: German Company Fires Employee in Jordan for Defending Israel
The German Corporation for International Cooperation in Amman fired an employee for her pro-Israel comments on a Facebook page in December. The former employee, who asked not to be...
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German FM Rejects Predecessor’s Characterization of ‘Apartheid’ Israel
Germany’s new Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Wednesday again parted ways with his predecessor’s anti-Israel rhetoric, saying he rejects labeling the Jewish state an “apartheid r...
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Israel Slams German Foreign Minister for Comparing Jewish State to Apartheid
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan blasted German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday for comparing the Jewish State's policies in the disputed West Bank territory to the former rac...
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BDS Activists Launch Tirade Against MK and Holocaust Survivor in Berlin
Anti-Israel activists disrupted on Tuesday a talk by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) at Humboldt University in Berlin, in what appears to be a second antisemitic attack at one of Germany’s most...
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German FM Hosts Iranian Official Calling for Israel’s Destruction
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed Monday an Iranian religious leader who called for the elimination of Israel at last year’s al-Quds rally in Berlin. The appearance o...