Lower Saxony

December 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Arrests Two Palestinian Supporters of the Islamic State

Authorities arrested two Palestinians for alleged criminal activity on behalf of Islamic State, the public prosecutor in Celle, in the German state of Lower Saxony, has confirmed. Mahmou...

August 9, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Dismisses Soldier For Denying Israel’s Existence

A court in Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony affirmed in June the German armed forces’ decision to discharge a soldier because of his rejection of Israel’s right to exist and suppo...

August 8, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany City Bans ‘Israel Is Illegal’ Vote

Authorities in the northern German city of Bremen have prohibited a radical pro-Iranian regime group from conducting a public vote on Saturday on whether Israel is an illegal state. Acco...

February 8, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

German State Removes Antisemitic School Book

The German state of Thuringia announced on Friday it will remove a school book with an antisemitic illustration depicting a video game character – alongside the words “Rothschild Bank...

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits

A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...

December 7, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Chancellor Merkel’s party labels BDS antisemitic

Germany's Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement because the anti-Israel action is antisemitic. &ldqu...

November 21, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pro-Iran group to urge Germans to vote Israel is illegal

The radical Islamic pro-Iran regime NGO “The Feather” announced that it will urge Germans  to reject Israel’s existence on Saturday at an information stand in the the north...

November 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Punish German BDS teachers, say US and Israeli labor-union leaders

Trade-union leaders in Israel and the US urged the federal German teachers’ labor organization this week to take action, including legal measures, against educators in the city of Oldenburg...

November 1, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German mayor rejects BDS activity of ‘antisemitic’ teacher

The mayor of the German city of Oldenburg announced his opposition on Wednesday to the anti-Israel BDS activity of a public school teacher, Christoph Glantz, in the town of nearly 164,000 people...

October 26, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German teachers union apologizes for Israel boycott activity

The president of Germany's teachers’ union, Marlis Tepe, apologized in a letter to her Israeli counterpart Yossi Wassermann for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions initiative agai...

October 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Antisemitic’ German teacher posed as a Jew to push anti-Israel agenda

e of Lower Saxony who advocates a complete boycott of Israel posed as a Jew in order to sign a petition calling for all Palestinian refugees to be returned to the Jewish state. The...

October 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Europeans ignoring antisemitism at their peril, says EU human rights commissioner

The Council of Europe's commisioner for human rights Nils Muižnieks delivered an urgent call on Tuesday for the EU to fight antisemitism seriously and remember the Holocaust with a view...

October 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Antisemitic’ German teacher posed as a Jew to push anti-Israel agenda

A teacher in the German state of Lower Saxony who advocates a complete boycott of Israel posed as a Jew in order to sign a petition calling for all Palestinian refugees to be returned to the Jewi...

October 17, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Fire German teacher who glorifies Palestinian violence, say critics

A German public school teacher and leading BDS activist praised a Facebook photo of a Palestinian using a slingshot to apparently hurl stones at Israelis, prompting calls on Friday and Saturday f...

October 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German pro-BDS antisemitic teacher investigated by politician

A German lawmaker launched an investigation involving a German school teacher and his alleged antisemitic statements and conduct at a public school in the city of Oldenburg in the state of Lower...

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...

September 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Leading BDS activist: Move Israel to Germany

It would not be absurd to relocate Israel to Baden-Württemberg, embattled German BDS activist Christoph Glanz wrote. The news that Glanz welcomed the idea that the Jewish state shou...

August 25, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Merkel party politician: Green Party minister ignored anti-Semitism at university

A leading state politician from the Christian Democratic Union, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, slammed a Green Party minister in the state of Lower Saxony for failing to rope in an allege...

August 22, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German University students declare BDS anti-Semitic

Students at one of  the world’s oldest universities – Leipzig University in the German state of Saxony – passed a resolution this month opposing the Boycott, Divestment and...

August 5, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German university cancels seminar that teaches Israel harvests Palestinian organs

The German university HAWK announced on Friday that it will stop teaching a seminar on Palestinian youths, in which Israel was accused of harvesting the organs of Palestinians and termed an apart...