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August 14, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s economy: The next casualty of Erdoğan’s state of emergency

For the past year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has exploited his country’s state of emergency to rule by decree, purging government ranks, imprisoning political dissenters a...

August 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt Seeks To Ban ‘Deeply Antisemitic’ BDS

The deputy mayor of Frankfurt, Uwe Becker, submitted a bill on Wednesday that would ban municipal funds and space being used for activities that aim to boycott Israel. Becker, a leading...

August 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Specialized Unit For Political Extremism Investigates BDS Activists

A criminal complaint filed against three BDS activists who allegedly launched physical and verbal tirades at MK Aliza Lavie and an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust at a June event in Berlin has...

July 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran illegally seeking weapons tech from German firms, according to report

Iran is targeting German companies in its bid to advance its missile program, in possible violation of an international agreement, and at least on occasion with the aid of a Chinese company, acco...

June 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

June 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

May 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Trump, Germany’s Merkel clash over trade, NATO and ‘Western values’

Germany and the U.S. emerged from Memorial Day weekend in a war of words, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners attacked America’s reliability as a world power and Presiden...

May 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Social Democratic Party Declares BDS Antisemitic

Members of Berlin's Social Democratic Party (SPD) passed a resolution on Saturday in support of Israel, condemning the boycott,divestment,sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state....

May 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Deso Dogg, the rapper who cheated death, humiliated the Pentagon and seduced an FBI translator

A B-list German rapper who found stardom when he joined ISIS, cheated death and embarrassed the Pentagon topped himself when he got the girl – an FBI translator who set out to catch him and...

May 8, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Lawmakers Urge FIFA to Reject Palestinian Demand to Kick Israel Out

A cross-party group of German parliamentary deputies sent a letter to the head of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Wednesday, urging him to reject a Palestinian camp...

March 2, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir, Cenk Sidar The Washington Post

Turkey’s bizarre witch hunt against the media

Turkey, the world’s worst offender of press freedom according to the Committee to Protect Jour...

December 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

World’s first BDS account closure, says German bank

The Bank fur Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) announced on Monday that it has shut down the account of a German group because it advocates a boycott against the Jewish state, fails to m...

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...

November 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Punish German BDS teachers, say US and Israeli labor-union leaders

Trade-union leaders in Israel and the US urged the federal German teachers’ labor organization this week to take action, including legal measures, against educators in the city of Oldenburg...

October 26, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German teachers union apologizes for Israel boycott activity

The president of Germany's teachers’ union, Marlis Tepe, apologized in a letter to her Israeli counterpart Yossi Wassermann for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions initiative agai...

October 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Fire German teacher who glorifies Palestinian violence, say critics

A German public school teacher and leading BDS activist praised a Facebook photo of a Palestinian using a slingshot to apparently hurl stones at Israelis, prompting calls on Friday and Saturday f...

September 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Leading BDS activist: Move Israel to Germany

It would not be absurd to relocate Israel to Baden-Württemberg, embattled German BDS activist Christoph Glanz wrote. The news that Glanz welcomed the idea that the Jewish state shou...

August 29, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

In Germany, Israelis help to launch anti-BDS group

Israelis along with Germans launched the Action Forum group, which included a protest against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists targeting Jewish state products in front of a Berlin d...

August 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How Hamas Allegedly Embezzles Millions in Christian Charity

The arrests of the head of a U.S. charity operating in the Gaza Strip—and of an UN engineer—put the international spotlight on terrorism finance in the nonprofit world. The&n...

July 11, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran sought chemical and biological weapons in 2015, says German intel

Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report that follow...