Kristallnacht
‘We Failed the Jewish Community’: Pro-Hamas Muslim Mob Carries Out Pogrom Against Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam
Anti-Jewish Mobs Prowl the Streets of Amsterdam: Several people were injured in Amsterdam on the evening of November 7, as antisemitic mobs hunted down Israeli soccer fans who had...
Flash Briefs
The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question
Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates
Op-eds
America Is Losing the Ball on White Supremacist Terror Groups
Other countries are taking the lead in cracking down on U.S.-based groups.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Boykott
Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
Monographs
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
Jewish Historian Accuses Three German MPs Of Countering Anti-BDS Act
Trittin, along with 15 Green Party MPs, spoke against the May anti-BDS resolution because, they claim, it endangers free speech. The resolution is non-binding.
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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....
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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....
Op-eds
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 &...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
The Turkish Kristallnacht
A belated commemoration — 60 years lat...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...