Heiko Maas

September 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Making sense of German electorate’s shift to the Left

Israel should not be under any delusion that the Social Democratic Party has its back. If anything, the slide to the Left, as it is being called in Germany, has serious implications for the Jewish state.

September 21, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s U-turn in Afghanistan shows the danger of outsourcing security missions to autocrats

President Joe Biden walked into Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s trap in June by agreeing to hold a one-on-one meeting without the presence of any diplomats or note takers. The American president...

August 25, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s ‘anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools’ enters a third century

The Social Democrats need to reverse their pro-Iranian regime and pro-Palestinian terrorism policies, or it will be business as usual.

August 11, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Ellie Cohanim

German Appeasement Of Khamenei Endangers Iranians And The World

Back in 2008, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial titled “Germany Loves Iran” and a piece headlined “Berlin ♥ Iran III” that covered workshops designed to help companies boost trade with...

July 16, 2021 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

The EU Is Only Too Happy to Appease Iran

European leaders appear to be eager for a new nuclear deal that would allow them to reap the rewards of investing in the Islamic Republic.

July 14, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Dr. Charles Asher Small

Germany needs to confront Iranian regime’s antisemitism

Berlin should take the lead in punishing the Islamic republic's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with economic sanctions and a cessation of diplomatic relations until Tehran recognizes Israel's right to exist.

June 10, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel needs to end support for terrorist Iran’s regime

Germany’s next government (elections are set for September) must break from its unsavory romance with Tehran and start to show a little more love towards Israel.

February 9, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Merkel under fire for failing to choose sides between communist China and capitalist US

‘Germans got a free pass from the Biden administration,’ says ex-intel chief Grenell

October 28, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

See No Evil: Europe Supports Genocidal Regime in Iran

Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons program…. The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment...

June 30, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German intel says Iran ‘massively promotes antisemitism, Israel hatred’

Neo-Nazi politician met with Iran's chief proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.

May 11, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Jewish rep against antisemitism rebukes diplomat for BDS support

Im Tirzu slams Israeli and Jewish academics for urging the discharge of the German government’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.

May 3, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Paper of Iran’s leader accuses Germany of terrorism in antisemitic tirade

“Holocaust was a fraud,” screams Khamenei paper

April 30, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany outlaws Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah

Germany’s interior ministry on Thursday outlawed all of Hezbollah activities within the Federal Republic, boosting the chances of a European-wide ban on the U.S.-designated Lebanese terrorist entity. “The...

February 17, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Female Imam: ‘Does German FM have an antisemitism problem?’

The Foreign Ministry on Heiko Maas’s watch has faced allegations of stoking Jew-hatred.

February 11, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany stays mum over anti-Israel UN resolution

The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Germany “to declare its opposition to a draft UN Security Council resolution that would demand Israel’s return to its pre-June 1967 borders."

February 10, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German president mistakenly congratulates Iran’s regime for its revolution

The office of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced it would not send the Iranian regime a congratulatory email on the anniversary of the revolution - then accidentally sent it anyway.

February 9, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

After US envoy criticism, German president will not honor Iran’s regime

German Foreign Ministry still slated to celebrate ‘antisemitic’ regime

February 8, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US envoy urges Germany not to celebrate Iran’s Holocaust-denying regime

The US government and the Anti-Defamation League have concluded that Iran’s regime is the leading international state-sponsor of terrorism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

January 16, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The French and German threat to NATO

President Trump’s targeted killing of the world’s master of international terrorism, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, highlighted Washington’s improved cooperation and concordance with Middle Eastern...

September 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Network Widens Between German Hezbollah Center and Lebanon’s Hezbollah

“In Germany, there are currently about 30 known cultural and mosque associations in which a clientele regularly meets that is close to Hezbollah or its ideology.”