Semitic people

June 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Second largest German bank shuts anti-Israel BDS account

In the latest of a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jer...

June 15, 2016 | Clifford D. May

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 &...

June 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German trade union fights promotion of anti-Semitic member

A German Labor federation has taken legal action to block the promotion of an employee who engaged in anti-Semitic activity on his Facebook page. The case against the union member, who c...

June 2, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Post’ investigation finds German city’s facilities used to wage BDS

A group conducting an aggressive anti-Israel boycott campaign has its headquarters in Bremen city-owned property that has received federal funding, an investigation by The Jerusalem Post found....

May 26, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Self-described anti-Semitic German pastor resigns from interfaith position

A culmination of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents has resulted in the resignation of the Protestant Church’s representative for dialogue with religious communities in the city of Brem...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor

The city of Bremen’s Jewish community blasted the local Evangelical Church for its failure to fire a pastor who openly declares himself an anti-Semite and plays a key role in stoking hatred...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German mayor embroiled in row over anti-Semitic bank account

The mayor of Stuttgart, who served as one of the patrons of an event celebrating Israel’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, defended his city’s ownership stake in the BW bank that provides...

April 27, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Pastor declares himself an anti-Semite

A pastor for the Lutheran Church in Bremen, Germany who boasted that he is an anti-Semite has prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Center to call for his dismissal. The pastor, Volker Keller, w...

April 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US Senator: Investigate German bank for anti-Semitic BDS support

A leading US Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks t...

April 7, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Real Rapprochement with Israel Requires Turkey to Tackle Anti-Semitism

Turkish and Israeli negotiators are having talks at an undisclosed location in pursuit o...

March 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama and the daylight between US and Israel

This week’s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public’s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House h...

March 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German public university to host boycott Israel lecture

Ruhr University Bochum—one of Germany’s largest public academic institutions—is slated to hold in March a Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment (BDS) lecture targeting the Jewish state...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

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...

May 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87

German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should...

May 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Stops Anti-Israel ‘Cologne Wailing Wall’ Exhibit

A Cologne city court shut down an anti-Israel exhibit on Cathedral Square. The prosecutor argued on Friday that the exhibit, which shows 15 pictures of dead and injured Gazan children wh...

May 30, 2014 | Tony Badran

Semitic Semantics

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis engaged in a brief, cordial exchange over the language spoken by Jesus. “Jesus was here, in this land,” Netanyahu...

October 24, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

The ‘Devil’ We Know

Anti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel...

May 13, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Radioactive Regime

The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...

May 10, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

When Hatred Turns Lethal

One of the most neglected stories in the Middle East – the ubiquitous Jew-hatred in the Arab and Muslim world – was suddenly catapulted into the mainstream media spotlight when Egypt&...

March 8, 2013 | |

Zionism Isn’t a Dirty Word

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has provoked yet another international diplomatic stir with Israel. Speaking, (where else?), at a United Nations conference in Vienna last week, ...