Germans

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 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Calls Synagogue Torching an Act to ‘Criticize Israel’

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified...

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...

November 21, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pro-Iran group to urge Germans to vote Israel is illegal

The radical Islamic pro-Iran regime NGO “The Feather” announced that it will urge Germans  to reject Israel’s existence on Saturday at an information stand in the the north...

November 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German organizers of Kristallnacht memorial sought to ban Israeli flag

Organizers from the "Walk of Remembrance” to commemorate the persecution of Jews in the northern German city of Oldenburg attempted on Thursday to ban the Israeli flag from the ceremony....

November 9, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The war against history

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...

November 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia

Expect Political Turmoil in the Year Ahead

“Trump, Brexit, Migration: Is the world on fire?” This was the topical question explored by five panellists last month at a Toronto event sponsored by three organizations: th...

October 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Munich’s Schmock restaurant closes due to Israel-hate

The Jewish owner of Munich's Schmock Israeli restaurant announced on its website its closure after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism in the Bavarian capital. Florian Gl...

October 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German pro-BDS antisemitic teacher investigated by politician

A German lawmaker launched an investigation involving a German school teacher and his alleged antisemitic statements and conduct at a public school in the city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower...

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 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...

July 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German left-wing radicals say Jews have ‘too much influence’

A study released last week in Berlin showed widespread anti-Semitism among left-wing Germans. According to the academic survey conducted by the Free University of Berlin, 34 percent of t...

June 27, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

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...

June 2, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Post’ investigation finds German city’s facilities used to wage BDS

A group conducting an aggressive anti-Israel boycott campaign has its headquarters in Bremen city-owned property that has received federal funding, an investigation by The Jerusalem Post found....

May 13, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Done Deal?

All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...

May 12, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Trump’s Secret? Religion

I’ve just finished correcting the first set of galleys from St. Martin’s Press for The Field of Fight, the soon-to-be-released book I had the pleasure of co-authoring with Lt. General...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

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...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor

The city of Bremen’s Jewish community blasted the local Evangelical Church for its failure to fire a pastor who openly declares himself an anti-Semite and plays a key role in stoking hatred...

April 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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]...