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....
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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...
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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...
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Turkey’s bizarre witch hunt against the media
Turkey, the world’s worst offender of press freedom according to the Committee to Protect Jour...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt
I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain; when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included. We...
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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...
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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...
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Obama and the daylight between US and Israel
This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...
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The Case for Suspending the Visa Waiver Program for Iranians
An Iranian court recently sentenced to death Babak Zanjani and his associate, Mehdi Shamszadeh, for their alleged role in embezzling billions of dollars of Oil Ministry revenues while running ove...
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German BDS group confirms bank closed its account
The hardcore BDS-Kampagne (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign) announced on its website that the French-German DAB Bank in Munich will terminate its account on April 14. In what...
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The threat to America’s national existence
President Obama judged the Islamic State the “JV team,” boasted that he’d set al Qaeda “on its heels” and implemented successful counterterrorism policies in Yemen....