North Rhine-Westphalia

January 12, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German City Removes Antisemitic BDS Event Notice from its Website

“Israel has systematically violated international law for more than 70 years, with more or less open support from the US and Europe."

December 8, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German police rolled out red carpet for Hezbollah-affiliated group

The US, Israel, the Arab League, and Canada classify all of Hezbollah as a terrorist entity. Germany and the EU have merely proscribed Hezbollah’s so-called military wing a terrorist organization.

October 4, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Bank Transferred Nearly $44,000 to Terrorist Group Hamas

The reaction from the authorities was too late, the remaining balance was roughly $124 for the Hamas account at the bank.

October 1, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German state commissioner against antisemitism wants BDS account closed

“Because the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg rejected the BDS campaign, I would like to speak to the state's bank" he said

September 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Report: Britain slated to outlaw the entire terrorist entity Hezbollah

Britain banned Hezbollah’s military wing in 2008 because the Lebanese militia attacked UK soldiers in Iraq.

September 20, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German state parliament bans BDS while anti-Israel bank defies resolution

The parliament of Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia slammed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state as ...

September 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Governor Opens Israel Office, Refuses to Ban Hezbollah, Iran Trade

Armin Laschet, the powerful governor of the largest German state North ...

September 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Bank Shuts Account of Group Sympathetic to Palestinian Terrorists

The German bank Sparkasse last week closed the account of the International Alliance – an organization that  sympathizes with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) t...

September 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Festival Kicks Out Pro-BDS Musician Brian Eno

The Electricity Conference in the city of Düsseldorf disinvited the anti-Israel British musician and producer Brian Eno on Tuesday from its slated October event because of his advocacy of th...

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...

August 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany accused of betraying pledge to combat anti-Semitism by ignoring Iran sanctions

The German government is under fire for betraying its pledge to combat anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, in light of Berlin’s efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran. The cr...

August 20, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Activists Shut Down Berlin Festival Event Due to Israeli Sponsorship

Anti-Israel activists in Berlin lashed out at a podium discussion at the Pop Cultural festival opening on Thursday, disrupting the panel conversation because the Jewish state provided a small don...

August 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jewish Council Urges End of Iran- Germany Trade

The president of Germany's roughly 100,000 member Central Council of Jews called on Thursday for an immediate end to Iranian-German business relations, alleging that the trade benefits the I...

August 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Top German Social Democrat Urges Bank to End Israel Boycott Support

Michaela Engelmeier, a member of the executive board of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, demanded that the Bank for Social Economy stop providing accounts to groups that support the Boycot...

August 8, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German governor boycotts anti-Israel music festival affiliated with BDS

Armin Laschet, the governor of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announced on Tuesday that he will not attend the Ruhrtriennale arts and music festival because it has n...

August 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel blasts German festival for mainstreaming anti-Israel BDS

The Israeli Embassy in Berlin on Thursday slammed the German music and cultural Ruhrtriennale festival for providing a platform to negate the existence of the Jewish state. “We wil...

July 30, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German police who attacked Israeli professor used Nazi slogan

A German police officer who assaulted US-based Israeli professor&nbs...

July 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German intelligence contradicts Merkel on Iran’s nuclear drive

A German intelligence report from the city-state of Hamburg said Iran’s regime is continuing to seek weapons of mass destruction, delivering another intelligence agency blow to Chancel...

July 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German intel report: Iran seeks to shatter states’ stability with WMD

The German intelligence agency of the state of Hesse published a new document on countering the spread of weapons of mass destruction, singling out the Islamic Republic of Iran as one of two stat...

July 11, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Calls for German Festival director to resign over BDS support

The artistic director of a music festival in the west German city of Bochum is facing growing pressure to resign because of her intense defense of a boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state....