Henryk M. Broder

February 8, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must implement its ban of Hezbollah terror activities

To great fanfare, Berlin announced in April 2020 that it outlawed all activities of the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah within the territory of the Federal Republic. However, the ban remains a...

July 4, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German Green Party’s Antisemitism Problem

With German federal elections set for September 26, the center-left German Green Party is polling well, and has a solid chance to be part of the next government. For many German Jews and Israel, and...

May 22, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Zuroff: German Anne Frank Center Director Blames Jews For Antisemitism

Mendel also compared German Jews, who were stripped of their citizenship during the Holocaust, with Islamic State terrorists who could face the loss of their German citizenship.

May 11, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinians beat Israeli musician in Berlin for defending Israel

The YouTube video caption reads: "Germany: Man attacked at Palestinian event for allegedly yelling 'Israel.'"

March 21, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Antisemitism Official ‘Must Resign, Compared Jew to Nazi’

Commissioner against antisemitism in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, Michael Blume compared German Jew to Adolf Eichmann.

January 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Protest Leads to Cancellation of BDS Event in Germany

“BDS is a serious enemy that contains lying criticism of Israel packaged as Jew-hatred. We have to face it with all our might and it turns out that we are successful."

January 16, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Head of German Jewish Community Demands Bank Shut Account of Pro-BDS Group

Jewish Voice supports the BDS campaign against Israel.

January 12, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German City Removes Antisemitic BDS Event Notice from its Website

“Israel has systematically violated international law for more than 70 years, with more or less open support from the US and Europe."

December 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter

Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.

October 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Head of German Jewish community revealed to be non-Jewish

The case of Wolfgang Seibert’s alleged fake Jewish identity is not the first instance of non-Jewish Germans falsely depicting their religious background.

September 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime

Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction.

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...

September 29, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

City of Munich cancels BDS event due to antisemitism

Munich's cultural affairs department pulled the plug on an anti- Israel lecture slated for Friday in a city-subsidized building, because the talk would have crossed the line into antisemitis...

June 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Second largest German bank shuts anti-Israel BDS account

In the latest of a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jer...

January 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Anti-Israel reporter loses case at German Press Council

The Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper falsely claimed that tens of thousands of Israelis fled to Germany because of the policies of the Netanyahu administration, the German Press Council confirm...

November 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: The Mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘Nein,’ BDS ‘Ja’

Each year on November 9, Berlin remembers the lethal anti-Semitic pogroms carried out by Germans against Jews and synagogues in 1938 – the so-called Kristallnacht anniversary. The comm...

May 12, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Does Germany’s Young Generation Hold Negative Views of Israel?

The peerless Middle East historian Bernard Lewis wrote nearly 30 years ago in his groundbreaking book Semites and Anti-Semites that German guilt after the Holocaust contributed to the positive re...

October 20, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Non-Islamic Anti-Semitism in Europe

BERLIN — The wave of modern anti-Semitism across Europe in July and August revealed a dangerous amalgamation of left-wing, Islamic-animated, and right-wing extremist Jew-hatred. Ma...

September 25, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany’s Jewish Problem

With anti-Semitism on the march, Germany's politicians and opinion makers are grappling with what went wrong with the country's seven-decade-long struggle to come to terms with its past...

January 28, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Europe Blames Israel for the Holocaust: Post-1945 anti-Semitism

The acclaimed British novelist Howard Jacobson opened his speech at the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem last October with piercing sarcasm: “The question is rhetorical. W...