Public Security Minister Erdan urges German bank to close BDS accounts
Bank provides account to NGO that promotes website comparing Israel with Nazis
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German Bank’s Anti-Semitism Leads United Israel Appeal to Shut Account
The German branch of the Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the prominent Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has closed it...
Op-eds
German governor boycotts anti-Israel music festival affiliated with BDS
Armin Laschet, the governor of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announced on Tuesday that he will not attend the Ruhrtriennale arts and music festival because it has n...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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German LGBT group closes bank account to protest BDS activity
The Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation – named after a gay German-Jewish scientist who was persecuted by the Nazis – has terminated its account with the Bank for Social Economy over the fin...
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Israel Urges Irish Bank to Shut Accounts of Boycott Group
The Israeli government is pushing for the closure of scores of bank accounts provided by the Irish banking giant Allied Irish Bank (AIB) that fund the promotion of anti-Israel boycotts....
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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...
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Exclusive: PayPal Closes Second Illegal French BDS Account
For the second time in 30 days, the US-based online payment service giant PayPal shut down the account of a French organization advocating for the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign ta...
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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...
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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...
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Exclusive: Paypal Closes Account of French BDS Organization
The US online payment company PayPal closed the account of one of France’s most powerful boycott Israel organizations – the France-Palestine Solidarity Association – The Jerusal...
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Israel Slams German Foreign Minister for Comparing Jewish State to Apartheid
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan blasted German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday for comparing the Jewish State's policies in the disputed West Bank territory to the former rac...
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Exclusive: Israel Set To Deny Entry To Radical BDS Activists
Israeli border authorities will deny entry to a number of hardcore BDS activists who are expected to visit imminently, sources at the Strategic Affairs Ministry told The Jerusalem Post on Thursda...
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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...
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Israel’s Anti-BDS ‘Start-Up’ Ministry
In a wide-ranging interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy officials announced the dawning of a new era in the government’s campaign against Isr...
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Exclusive: Texas Bank Shuts Out Israel Haters
The giant Dallas-based bank Comerica announced on Friday that it will close a bank account held by an anti-Israel organization that promotes boycotting the Jewish state. “Comerica...