German students protest anti-Israel policy of former foreign minister
Students at the University of Bonn in Germany demonstrated against a talk delivered by former German foreign minister ...
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Israel Slams German Foreign Minister for Comparing Jewish State to Apartheid
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan blasted German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday for comparing the Jewish State's policies in the disputed West Bank territory to the former rac...
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Bill Against Israel – Boycott Advances in Munich
Legislators from the two main parties in the Munich City Council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday in a committee meeting to approve a bill that would outlaw municipal funding and public space fo...
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Germany City Bans ‘Israel Is Illegal’ Vote
Authorities in the northern German city of Bremen have prohibited a radical pro-Iranian regime group from conducting a public vote on Saturday on whether Israel is an illegal state. Acco...
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Berlin Mayor Allows Hezbollah to March in ‘Zionists out of Israel’ Rally
Posters with anti-Israel slogans and Israeli flags with crossed out Stars of David blanketed the streets of Berlin on Friday. Mayor Michael Müller permitted nearly 600 Hezbollah sup...
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German Lawmakers Urge FIFA to Reject Palestinian Demand to Kick Israel Out
A cross-party group of German parliamentary deputies sent a letter to the head of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Wednesday, urging him to reject a Palestinian camp...
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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...
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BDS Event Triggers Outrage in German City
The German Jewish community in the city of Bonn and a leading social democratic MP on Friday called on a foundation to pull the plug on an event propagating a boycott against the Jewish state....
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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...
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German Party Condemns BDS, Compares Movement to Pre-WWII Antisemitism
German politicians from the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU) in Hamburg submitted a resolution in early February calling on the state senate to take decisive action against the anti-Israel...
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Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits
A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...
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Weaponizing Refugees
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Willkomenskultur (“Welcome culture”) refugee policy of last year has screeched to a grinding halt. Delivering an early December speech at her C...
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German Chancellor Merkel’s party labels BDS antisemitic
Germany's Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement because the anti-Israel action is antisemitic. &ldqu...
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‘Antisemitic’ German teacher posed as a Jew to push anti-Israel agenda
e of Lower Saxony who advocates a complete boycott of Israel posed as a Jew in order to sign a petition calling for all Palestinian refugees to be returned to the Jewish state. The...
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‘Antisemitic’ German teacher posed as a Jew to push anti-Israel agenda
A teacher in the German state of Lower Saxony who advocates a complete boycott of Israel posed as a Jew in order to sign a petition calling for all Palestinian refugees to be returned to the Jewi...
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Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...
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Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...
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‘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....
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German politicians call for inquiry into anti-Semitic BDS hub
A widening anti-Semitism scandal involving the Protestant Church and a network of NGOs in the city of Bremen that call for a boycott of Israel prompted the Green Party to launch an investigation,...
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Analysis: The Mood in Germany: Kristallnacht ‘Nein,’ BDS ‘Ja’
Each year on November 9, Berlin remembers the lethal anti-Semitic pogroms carried out by Germans against Jews and synagogues in 1938 – the so-called Kristallnacht anniversary. The comm...