Kristallnacht

January 12, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question

Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates

December 21, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Varsha Koduvayur

America Is Losing the Ball on White Supremacist Terror Groups

Other countries are taking the lead in cracking down on U.S.-based groups.

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...

November 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Slams BDS Rally On Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

Berlin Mayor Michael Müller issued a scathing condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott campaign because of its protest against the Jewish state on Friday, the memorial day for the Kristallnac...

September 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Authorities Say Multiple Synagogue Attacks Are Not Antisemitism

German police in the city of Ulm – Albert Einstein’s birthplace – say they have no indication that a man who damaged a synagogue on separate occasions in August and early Septem...

March 21, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German BDS Events Canceled in Frankfurt and Bonn

After a wave of objections to a boycott-Israel event scheduled for next week in Bonn, Germany, the Jewish community there on Monday announced its delight with cancellation of the gathering and a...

March 14, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Event Triggers Outrage in German City

The German Jewish community in the city of Bonn and a leading social democratic MP on Friday called on a foundation to pull the plug on an event propagating a boycott against the Jewish state....

January 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Calls Synagogue Torching an Act to ‘Criticize Israel’

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified...

November 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German organizers of Kristallnacht memorial sought to ban Israeli flag

Organizers from the "Walk of Remembrance” to commemorate the persecution of Jews in the northern German city of Oldenburg attempted on Thursday to ban the Israeli flag from the ceremony....

June 15, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Terrorism and economic warfare

Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers &...

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...

September 7, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir |

The Turkish Kristallnacht

A belated commemoration — 60 years lat...

May 4, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Are Germans so Quick to Remove Israeli Flags?

The police removal of an Israeli flag unfurled at a soccer match in Berlin last week to preempt Palestinian anger is part of a longstanding practice of shunning the Jewish state’s flag in G...

January 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky Last week's terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris underscored a fear that has been growing in recent years: Europe is n...

January 27, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

A Diary for the Future

Writer Johannes Gross neatly captured Germany’s relationship to its Nazi history when he wrote, “The resistance to Hitler and his kind is getting stronger the more the Third Reich rec...

November 18, 2010 | |

Germany Outsources Its Israel Hatred Now

The Mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth's decision to invite hardcore anti-Israeli academic Alfred Grosser to deliver the keynote speech at last week's commemoration of Kristallnacht, a wave...

July 20, 2005 | Newt Gingrich Jerusalem Post |

Rethinking UN Reform

By: Newt Gingrich & Peter Oppenheim. An important test for meaningful reform of the United Nations will be measured by whether there is a dramatic change in the way Israel,...