Simon Wiesenthal

February 8, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany must implement its ban of Hezbollah terror activities

To great fanfare, Berlin announced in April 2020 that it outlawed all activities of the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah within the territory of the Federal Republic. However, the ban remains a...

August 25, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s ‘anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools’ enters a third century

The Social Democrats need to reverse their pro-Iranian regime and pro-Palestinian terrorism policies, or it will be business as usual.

February 10, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German president mistakenly congratulates Iran’s regime for its revolution

The office of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced it would not send the Iranian regime a congratulatory email on the anniversary of the revolution - then accidentally sent it anyway.

February 25, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Weisenthal Urges Germans to Stop Business with Bank that Enables BDS

The bank was classified number 7 on the Wiesenthal Center’s 2018 top 10 list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism.

December 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter

Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.

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...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jewish shareholders call for probe into bank’s BDS-linked accounts

The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany – a part owner of the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy – wants the bank to open a new investigation into its alleged support of the b...

May 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German bank executives may be included on top 10 list of antisemitism cases

International human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center is considering the inclusion of three senior executives of the German Bank for Social Economy (BFS) on its list of the top ten...

February 26, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

September 6, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Lambasted For Enabling Uptick in BDS, Antisemitism

Berlin’s embattled Mayor Michael Müller is under fire from German Jews and antisemitism experts for allegedly tolerating hatred of Israel and a rising BDS campaign in the capital city....

February 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Anti-Israel German Politician Compares Jewish Facebook Head with Nazi

The deputy head of Germany’s Social Democratic Party equated the Jewish Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg with a neo-Nazi terrorist on Sunday for her attendance at a Trump administration hi-tech...

January 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Muslim Students Protest Holocaust Remembrance, Attack Israel

Muslim students of Arab and Turkish origin protested participation in an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Germany, while their high school’s administration showed understand...

June 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Wiesenthal Center: Officials in German city complicit in Israel boycott

The Simon Wiesenthal accused city officials and politicians in Bremen on Friday of complicity in boycotts against Israel. In a blistering letter to Carsten Sieling, the Social Democratic...

March 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Politicians in Albert Einstein’s German hometown fund anti-Semitic lecture

A municipally funded adult education center in Ulm – the birthplace of Albert Einstein – is slated to host next Wednesday a speaker accused of stoking anti-Semitism and hatred of Isra...

February 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German city awards US NGO with ties to Holocaust deniers 10,000 prize

The Bavarian city of Bayreuth is slated to award 10,000 euros in April to a US-based activist group - Code Pink - that supports a boycott of the Jewish state and has participated in a conference...

June 25, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Study by German Commission: Schoolbooks Biased Against Israel

German schoolbooks present a one-sided view of Israel as an aggressive, warlike country while ignoring that the Jewish state is the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, according to a n...

May 12, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Why Does Germany’s Young Generation Hold Negative Views of Israel?

The peerless Middle East historian Bernard Lewis wrote nearly 30 years ago in his groundbreaking book Semites and Anti-Semites that German guilt after the Holocaust contributed to the positive re...