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Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
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Austrian Students Reject ‘Antisemitic’ Boycott Israel Campaign
The Austrian National Union of Students passed on Friday a motion against BDS, saying that the boycott movement targeting Israel is antisemitic, and that its demands recall the Nazis’ econo...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Hotels Join the List of Venues Canceling BDS Events in Vienna
Hotel Kaiserwasser and Hotel Regina have pulled the plug on a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions event featuring a British-Palestinian lawyer in Austria’s capital city. The onli...
Op-eds
BDS Austria Barred from Holding Event at Vienna Cultural Institution
A Vienna cultural institution barred BDS Austria from holding an event, the WUK cultural center told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. “The WUK distances itself clearly from ‘I...
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
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
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
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...
Op-eds
How New York can help stop Europe’s rampaging Israel boycotters
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In America, the odious boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel remains largely confined to university humanities departments, l...
Op-eds
German mayor embroiled in row over anti-Semitic bank account
The mayor of Stuttgart, who served as one of the patrons of an event celebrating Israel’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, defended his city’s ownership stake in the BW bank that provides...
Op-eds
Giant Austrian bank shuts down BDS account
One of Austria's largest companies – the Erste Group – closed a bank account held by BDS Austria. The Vienna-based BDS Austria announced on Friday on its ...
Op-eds
German Bank defends neo-Nazi party and BDS bank accounts
The BW Bank in the German city of Stuttgart stood by its business accounts with a neo-Nazi party and a Palestinian group that seeks the destruction of Israel. “The [neo-Nazi party]...
Op-eds
US Senator: Investigate German bank for anti-Semitic BDS support
A leading US Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks t...
Op-eds
Exclusive: New York politician’s anti-BDS law would penalize German, Austrian banks
A prominent Democratic New York state assemblyman, who introduced an anti-Boycott Israel bill in the state legislature, urged on Tuesday a group of German and Austrian banks based in NYC to termi...
Op-eds
Exclusive: New York politician’s anti-BDS law would penalize German, Austrian banks
A prominent Democratic New York state assemblyman, who introduced an anti-Boycott Israel bill in the state legislature, urged on Tuesday a group of German and Austrian banks based in NYC to termi...
Op-eds
Austrian bank engulfed in anti-Semitism dispute over BDS account
The Vienna-based Erste Group bank—a financial giant in Central and Eastern Europe—has become embroiled in an anti-Semitism row because its provides an account to a Boycott, Divestment...