Kuwait Airways’ Anti-Israel Discrimination
Kuwait’s national carrier has agreed, without admitting liability, to ...
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Kuwait Airways’ Anti-Israel Discrimination
Kuwait’s national carrier has agreed, without admitting liability, to pay damages...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
Jewish National fund slated to end business with German bank enabling BDS
The German branch of the Jewish National Fund told The Jerusalem Post that it will close its account with the Bank for Social Economy if the financial institution refuses to en...
Op-eds
Israel’s ambassador convinces Berlin’s Jewish museum to cancel BDS speaker
Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about a hardcore anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull...
Op-eds
U.S. Senators urge German bank to stop enabling antisemitic BDS campaign
Two powerful US Republican senators, both of whom ran significant campaigns for the presidency of America in 2016, weighed in on Thursday against a German bank for aiding the Boycott, Divestment...
Op-eds
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....
Op-eds
Frankfurt Deputy Mayor Declares Bands that Support BDS are not Welcome
Uwe Becker, the deputy mayor and city treasurer for Frankfurt, announced on Tuesday that artists who support the boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state are not welcome in...
Op-eds
Exclusive: German Islamic Center Raises Money for Hezbollah
The Al-Mustafa community center in the city-state of Bremen in northern Germany is a major hub for raising funds for the EU and US designated terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon, accordin...
Op-eds
German Bank Enabling BDS may Violate its Ethical Code of Conduct
The pro-Israel group Action Forum Israel (Aktionsforum Israel) in Germany has released an eye-popping report on its website, questioning whether the Bank for Social Economy violated its internal...
Op-eds
U.S. and U.K. Bands Boycott Berlin Event Due to Israeli Embassy Donation
US singer John Maus announced his withdrawal from the Berlin Pop-Kultur music festival due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He is the fourth musical act t...
Op-eds
Antisemitism czar slams German cartoon as ‘Nazi propaganda’
The federal commissioner for combating antisemitism in Germany, Felix Klein, blasted Germany’s largest broadsheet paper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) on Wednesday for publishing an antisemi...
Op-eds
Students at Germany’s oldest university reject ‘antisemitic’ BDS campaign
Heidelberg University's student council voted on Tuesday to classify the boycott, divestment, sanctions campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic and bar university space and funds to advocat...
Op-eds
Germany’s antisemitism Czar wants banks to boot antisemitic BDS groups
The newly appointed federal government commissioner for combating Antisemitism in Germany, Felix Klein, condemned the Bank for Social Economy on Thursday for ...
Op-eds
Exclusive: German Jewish owner of bank demands bank stop enabling BDS
The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany – a part owner of the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy – called on its management to end all business relations with groups that supp...
Op-eds
German bank enabling ‘antisemitic BDS’ banned from business with Frankfurt
The Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy will be forbidden to conduct business with the city of Frankfurt – Germany’s financial capital – because of the bank’s accounts f...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Wiesenthal Calls for Jewish NGOs to End Business with German Pro-BDS Bank
The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued an urgent appeal last week to Jewish organizations to terminate their business relations with Germany’s top financial enabler of Israeli boycott activitie...
Op-eds
German Bank Enables Pro-BDS NGO that Supports IDF Deserters
A German bank has been catapulted into an anti-Israel scandal because it provides an account to an NGO that supports Israelis who desert from or refuse to serve in the IDF. The Jerusalem...
Op-eds
Israel Urges German Bank to Stop Enabling ‘Antisemitic BDS Movement’
Minister Gilad Erdan demanded that a German bank close an account that enables an anti-Zionist organization to raise funds to boycott the Jewish state and spread antisemitism. “As...