Exclusive: Texas Bank Shuts Out Israel Haters
The giant Dallas-based bank Comerica announced on Friday that it will close a bank account held by an anti-Israel organization that promotes boycotting the Jewish state. “Comerica...
NGO Monitor
Analysis: Germany’s Social Democrats Pivot Toward PLO and Iran
German Foreign and Vice Chancellor Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s move to pick a fight with Benjamin Netanyahu come as no surprise to longterm observers of Gabriel and his Social Democratic Part...
Op-eds
German State Head Gives BDS Bethlehem Hate Preacher Nearly $32,000
The Green Party president of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, personally delivered in late March a check for €30,000 ($32,000) to a Lutheran pastor in the West Bank who advocate...
Op-eds
Hotels Join the List of Venues Canceling BDS Events in Vienna
Hotel Kaiserwasser and Hotel Regina have pulled the plug on a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions event featuring a British-Palestinian lawyer in Austria’s capital city. The onli...
Op-eds
Swiss Legislature Passes Bill to Stop Funding Groups That Promote Israel Boycotts
The lower house of Switzerland’s legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would force the government to stop funding organizations that promote boycotts of Israel, Benjamin Weint...
Op-eds
Swiss Legislature Passes Bill to Stop Funding for Boycotts of Israel
The measure will be submitted in May to the Council of States, the upper chamber of the legislature, which will decide whether it becomes law. Olga Deutsch, director of the Jerusalem-bas...
Op-eds
Switzerland Funds NGO’s that Call for Israel’s Destruction
A February article in the Swiss daily Basler Zeitung reported that some of the nearly $60 million its government has sent in support of Middle East projects funds initiatives that call for the de...
Op-eds
Texas, Spanish Banks Slammed Over Israel-Boycott Accounts
Two giant financial institutions – Dallas-based Comerica and Spain’s La Caixa – are caught in the crossfire of criticism from politicians and human rights organizations over a f...
Op-eds
BDS Austria Barred from Holding Event at Vienna Cultural Institution
A Vienna cultural institution barred BDS Austria from holding an event, the WUK cultural center told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. “The WUK distances itself clearly from ‘I...
Op-eds
Dershowitz Calls on Banks to Close Accounts that Boycott Israel
Renowned Harvard University jurist Alan Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: “The organization [IADL] was founded as a communist front and supported financially by the Soviet Union...
Op-eds
In strong attack on Israel, German foreign minister says settlements jeopardize peace
German Foriegn Minster Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a staunch proponent of the Iran nuclear deal, has slammed Israel in a series of tweets and statements since last Friday’s Security Council re...
Op-eds
Analysis: What can be done about Europe’s listless pursuit of Hezbollah terrorists?
After murdering five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in 2012, two Hezbollah...
Op-eds
How US states can promote Israeli-Palestinian peace
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky The growing number of laws and resolutions approved by US states, designed to block anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions efforts have sen...
Op-eds
European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?
To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...
Op-eds
German mayor opposes 10,000 euro award to anti-Semitic group Code Pink
The mayor of the German city of Bayreuth, Brigitte Merk-Erbe, said on Thursday that she rejects awarding the city’s tolerance prize to the radical US NGO Code Pink because of its ties with...
Op-eds
Analysis: Are EU Labels On Settlement Products Triggering Anti-Semitism?
Nearly a month after the European Union imposed special sanctions on Israeli products from disputed territories, there is a growing sense that the penalty is a shot in the arm for hardcore anti-I...
Op-eds
Analysis: Making Sense of Germany’s Vote Against Israel in the UN Human Rights Council
In a year full of celebrations marking 50 years of German-Israel diplomatic relations, diplomatic niceties were absent at last week’s UNHRC Gaza report vote in Geneva, where the Merkel admi...
Op-eds
Swiss MPs: Funding for Breaking the Silence a ‘Scandal and Misuse of Tax Money’
The opening of the Breaking the Silence exhibit in Zurich on Thursday unleashed a firestorm of criticism from Swiss politicians who say the country’s Foreign Ministry misused public funds t...
Op-eds
Mideast Experts Blast European Group’s Call to Punish Israeli Government
Responding to a group calling itself the European Eminent Persons Group on Middle East issues (EEPG),which urged the EU to take unilateral actions against the Jewish state for the stagnate peace...
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...