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...
NGO Monitor
NGO Monitor urges Germany to halt antisemitic aid arm in Gaza, West Bank
The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on the German government on Friday to immediately halt the activities and funding of its Corporation for International Cooperation operating in Jordan, the...
Op-eds
Exclusive: German Company Fires Employee in Jordan for Defending Israel
The German Corporation for International Cooperation in Amman fired an employee for her pro-Israel comments on a Facebook page in December. The former employee, who asked not to be...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Exclusive: PayPal Closes Second Illegal French BDS Account
For the second time in 30 days, the US-based online payment service giant PayPal shut down the account of a French organization advocating for the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign ta...
Op-eds
Exclusive: Paypal Closes Account of French BDS Organization
The US online payment company PayPal closed the account of one of France’s most powerful boycott Israel organizations – the France-Palestine Solidarity Association – The Jerusal...
Op-eds
Germany Uses EU Funds to Finance Extremist Iranian Regime-controlled Group
The German government provides €283,150 to a radical pro-Iranian regime Shi’ite umbrella organization...
Op-eds
German University Town Under Fire For Boycott Activity Against Israel
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and pro-Israel advocates in Germany have expressed their disgust and outrage at the southern German city of Heidelberg for its activit...
Op-eds
Italy Bars PFLP Terrorist And BDS Advocate Leila Khaled
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled was barred from entering Italy on Wednesday on the grounds that she lacked a valid visa. Olga Deutsch, Europe Desk director at the Jerusalem-...
Op-eds
Israeli Lawmaker Urges Spain to Stop Funds for BDS NGOs
The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid launched dual criticisms on Wednesday of Spanish government funds for anti-Israel NGOs in the country’s parliament in Madri...
Op-eds
BDS Activists Launch Tirade Against MK and Holocaust Survivor in Berlin
Anti-Israel activists disrupted on Tuesday a talk by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) at Humboldt University in Berlin, in what appears to be a second antisemitic attack at one of Germany’s most...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...