Paper of Iran’s leader accuses Germany of terrorism in antisemitic tirade
“Holocaust was a fraud,” screams Khamenei paper
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Gaza’s Militant Groups Battle COVID-19
With local authorities in Gaza woefully unprepared to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, Hamas has turned to its familiar strategy of leveraging violence and international pressure to extort Israel into providing...
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UN issues scathing indictment of Iran’s human rights violations
The newly released U.N. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran savaged Tehran’s failure to adhere to basic human rights norms. Javaid Rehman,...
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Torture TV
The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media
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Treasury Targets Maduro’s Oil Lifeline
The U.S. Treasury Department last week sanctioned a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft for its leading role in illicit exports of Venezuelan oil. With this much-anticipated step, the Trump administration...
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Adviser to Iran’s Khamenei is looking to ‘raze Tel Aviv to the ground’
In a recent interview, Mohsen Rezaei said that Iran would use any US activity as a pretext to attack Israel.
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German university hosts pro-BDS event with alleged antisemite
Humboldt University expelled Jewish students and academics in 1930's
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German paper changes headline after blaming Israel for Hamas attacks
EU commissioner for combating antisemitism blasts weekly paper.
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Germany stays mum over anti-Israel UN resolution
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Germany “to declare its opposition to a draft UN Security Council resolution that would demand Israel’s return to its pre-June 1967 borders."
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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.
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German Jews urge Green Party MP to resign from ‘antisemitic’ BDS group
Last year, the Bild paper in Germany said Green Party member Claudia Roth made “antisemitism socially respectable” by enthusiastically meeting with the head of Iran’s quasi-Parliament Ali Larijani.
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Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
Iranian authorities bulldozed grave of executed Christian pastor
The grave of the Rev. Hossein Soodmand, the only Iranian pastor confirmed to have been formally sentenced for quitting Islam and then executed by Iran’s regime, was bulldozed in early December. Article18,...
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Brothers in Arms
The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis
Monographs
Maximum Pressure 2.0
A Plan for North Korea
Monographs
US ambassador blasts German economics minister for China communist comparison
The U.S. ambassador to Germany chided Chancellor Angela Merkel’s economics affairs minister for drawing an insulting parallel between communist China and America. Richard Grenell did not mention...
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US rebukes Germany for refusal to say Iran’s threat to destroy Israel is anti-Semitic
Threats by Iran to obliterate Israel have been played down by Germany, prompting the Trump administration’s highest-profile ambassador to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel government’s attitude...
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European lawmakers demand sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses
Members of the European Parliament have called on trade conditions with Iran to hinge on Tehran improving its appalling human rights record. “Iran is a country where women are imprisoned for being women,”...