German Antisemitism Commissioner Calls On Bank To Shut BDS Account
“In past years, Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin decided to deny financial support and municipal rooms, in the future, to the BDS campaign that is hostile to Israel.”
Keren Hayesod
President of German-Jewish community says bank will close BDS group’s account
Mainstream Jewish groups – including the World Jewish Congress, European Jewish Congress, Central Council of Jews in Germany and American Jewish Committee – have urged Schmitz to close the account.
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Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter
Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.
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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 under fire for strengthening antisemitism and hatred of Israel
Whoever actively supports antisemitic organizations such as BDS contributes to the further strengthening of antisemitism.
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EXCLUSIVE: PayPal shuts German NGO account with links to Palestinian terrorists
The US online payment service PayPal has closed the account of the Germany-based NGO International Alliance – an organization that sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of P...
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German state parliament bans BDS while anti-Israel bank defies resolution
The parliament of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia slammed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state as ...
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Prominent German Jews want JNF to close account with BDS-enabling bank
The German branch of the Jewish National Fund has been swept up in a widening antisemitism scandal because it won’t immediately close its account with the Bank for Social Economy that enabl...
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German Bank Shuts Account of Group Sympathetic to Palestinian Terrorists
The German bank Sparkasse last week closed the account of the International Alliance – an organization that sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) t...
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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...
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Top German Social Democrat Urges Bank to End Israel Boycott Support
Michaela Engelmeier, a member of the executive board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, demanded that the Bank for Social Economy stop providing accounts to groups that support the Boycot...
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Jewish National fund slated to end business with German bank enabling BDS
The German branch of the Jewish National Fund told The Jerusalem Post that it will close its account with the Bank for Social Economy if the financial institution refuses to en...
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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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Frankfurt Deputy Mayor Declares Bands that Support BDS are not Welcome
Uwe Becker, the deputy mayor and city treasurer for Frankfurt, announced on Tuesday that artists who support the boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state are not welcome in...
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German Bank Enabling BDS may Violate its Ethical Code of Conduct
The pro-Israel group Action Forum Israel (Aktionsforum Israel) in Germany has released an eye-popping report on its website, questioning whether the Bank for Social Economy violated its internal...
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United Israel Appeal leaving BDS-enabling bank in Germany
Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the premier Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has announced that its German branch wil...
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Exclusive: German Jewish owner of bank demands bank stop enabling BDS
The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany – a part owner of the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy – called on its management to end all business relations with groups that supp...
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German CEO: Israel should no longer rely on Germany for its existence
In an eye-popping commentary in the Die Welt newspaper last week, Mathias Döpfner, the pro-Israel CEO of the Axel Springer media conglomerate in Berlin, wrote that the Jew...
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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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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...