Humboldt University of Berlin

February 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism slams university for BDS event

“If anti-Israeli boycott and delegitimization campaigns are directly supported, the line regarding Israel-related antisemitism was crossed."

February 12, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German university hosts pro-BDS event with alleged antisemite

Humboldt University expelled Jewish students and academics in 1930's

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.”

October 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Boycott-Israel activists disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin

The activists could be seen on a video holding a sign that read, “No culture in whitewashing Apartheid.”

August 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Intelligence Agency Declares BDS Antisemitic

The city-state of Berlin’s new intelligence report on Tuesday classified the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state as part of the outbreak of antisemiti...

August 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German University Files Criminal Complaint Against BDS Activist

Humboldt University in the German capital lodged a criminal complaint against activists who disrupted a talk by MK Aliza Lavie and an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust in June, a spokesman for th...

August 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Specialized Unit For Political Extremism Investigates BDS Activists

A criminal complaint filed against three BDS activists who allegedly launched physical and verbal tirades at MK Aliza Lavie and an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust at a June event in Berlin has...

July 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Criminal Complaint Filed Against BDS Activists For Disrupting MK’s Talk

The German-Israel Society branch in Berlin has lodged a criminal complaint against three BDS activists for disrupting a talk at the city’s Humboldt University in late June. The pan...

June 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israeli Party Chair Slams Berlin Mayor for Allowing Hezbollah Rally

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid has sent a hard-hitting letter to Berlin Mayor Michael Müller for permitting Hezbollah to march in the German capital over the weekend. In the letter,...

June 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Activists Launch Tirade Against MK and Holocaust Survivor in Berlin

Anti-Israel activists disrupted on Tuesday a talk by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) at Humboldt University in Berlin, in what appears to be a second antisemitic attack at one of Germany’s most...

May 7, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Auf Wiedersehen, Mon Ami

If the results of the latest elections are any indication, Europeans will elect anyone from communists to fascists if they promise to fight German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the financial aust...