Federal republic

August 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Green Party Probes Iran’s Activity Against Israel And Dissidents

The expansion of Iranian regime institutions in Germany has prompted the opening of an inquiry by the Green Party in the Bundestag on Friday to assess Tehran’s anti-Israel and espionage act...

August 9, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Dismisses Soldier For Denying Israel’s Existence

A court in Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony affirmed in June the German armed forces’ decision to discharge a soldier because of his rejection of Israel’s right to exist and suppo...

July 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

What’s Happening Behind The Scenes Of Bulgaria’s Hezbollah Terror Trial?

Co-written by Yonah Jeremy Bob. Five years have passed since Hezbollah allegedly blew up an Israeli tourist bus in the Bulgarian resort town of Burgas and killed six people, inc...

July 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Seeking Nuclear Weapons Technology, German Intel Says

Damning German intelligence reports emerged in June and July revealing the Iranian regime’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile technology in defiance of international sanction...

June 28, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German-Turkish Relations Continue to Deteriorate

The fractured Berlin-Ankara relationship has been hit by perhaps its biggest diplomatic crisis, resulting in Berlin’s...

June 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Allows Hezbollah to March in ‘Zionists out of Israel’ Rally

Posters with anti-Israel slogans and Israeli flags with crossed out Stars of David blanketed the streets of Berlin on Friday. Mayor Michael Müller permitted nearly 600 Hezbollah sup...

June 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israeli Party Chair Slams Berlin Mayor for Allowing Hezbollah Rally

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid has sent a hard-hitting letter to Berlin Mayor Michael Müller for permitting Hezbollah to march in the German capital over the weekend. In the letter,...

May 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

April 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany is a Hotbed of Iranian Spy Activity that Targets Israel

The German Interior Ministry notified a Left Party deputy last week that agents from Iran have been some of the most active spies in the Federal Republic between 2007 and 2017, including assassin...

April 12, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

We can’t punish Syria and ignore Iran: Assad’s allies have been complicit in his crimes

The Iranian regime’s role in enabling Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s chemical attacks on civilians last week has sadly been ignored, in part because of Tehran’s accurate asserti...

March 24, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

January 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Muslim Students Protest Holocaust Remembrance, Attack Israel

Muslim students of Arab and Turkish origin protested participation in an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Germany, while their high school’s administration showed understand...

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

January 19, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran planned terror attacks against Israel advocates in Germany

Iran’s intelligence agency allegedly planned terrorist attacks against organizations and representatives engaged in pro-Israel work in Germany, according to German media reports citing the...

January 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Weaponizing Refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Willkomenskultur (“Welcome culture”) refugee policy of last year has screeched to a grinding halt. Delivering an early December speech at her C...

January 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Planned Terror Attacks Against Israel Advocates in Germany

Iran's intelligence agency allegedly planned terrorist attacks against organizations and representatives engaged in pro-Israel work in Germany, according to media reports citing the country&...

January 4, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany indicts alleged Iranian spy accused of targeting Israel group

The federal prosecutor in Germany announced on Monday the indictment of a Pakistani man allegedly commissioned by Iran’s regime to spy on the head of the German-Israel Friendship Society an...

December 5, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Don’t Let Iran Off The Hook For Chemical/Biological Weapons

The Trump administration will need to be on its toes to enforce the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement—and stop the Islamic Republic’s developing chemical and  biological weapons progra...

September 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal, Sheryl Saperia

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,...

September 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinian Authority ‘probably’ pays terrorist families, admits German gov’t

The acknowledgment by the German government is believed to be the first Federal Republic public statement that the PA aids terrorists and their families. Volker Beck, the German Green MP...