Wuppertal

May 15, 2023 | David May |

Amid Escalation in Gaza, Tunisian Soldier Murders Local Jews

A Tunisian national guardsman murdered two Jewish cousins and three Tunisian officers last Tuesday, turning a festive occasion into a tragedy. Aviel and Benjamin Haddad were among thousands of...

October 16, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Report: Hezbollah Militants Entered Germany Among Refugees

Hezbollah combatants have entered Germany since mid-2015 as part of the wave of refugees from the Middle East, according to a German intelligence report reviewed by The Jerusalem Post. T...

September 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Authorities Say Multiple Synagogue Attacks Are Not Antisemitism

German police in the city of Ulm – Albert Einstein’s birthplace – say they have no indication that a man who damaged a synagogue on separate occasions in August and early Septem...

August 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Palestinian Terrorist Group Campaigns For Bundestag

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an EU and US classified terrorist entity responsible the murders of scores of Israelis, seeks to enter the German Bundestag in the September 24...

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...

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

January 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Calls Synagogue Torching an Act to ‘Criticize Israel’

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified...

September 30, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: German, Austrian Jews Worried About Anti-Semitism From Refugees

The growing influx into central Europe of refugees from Muslim-majority countries with a deeply rooted culture of lethal anti-Semitism has started to jolt Jewish leaders and journalists into an e...

July 1, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

950 Hezbollah Operatives, 300 Hamas Members in Germany – Intelligence Report

The number of Islamists in Germany increased to 43,890 in 2014 from 43,190 in 2013, according to a report released on Tuesday by the country’s domestic intelligence agency. Radical...

February 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Denmark Terror: Making Sense of the Continuation of European Lethal Anti-Semitism

BERLIN - The specter of lethal anti-Semitism has once again engulfed Europe, with the latest murder of the Danish Jew Dan Uzan who was guarding the Copenhagen synagogue. His death along with anot...

January 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky Last week's terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris underscored a fear that has been growing in recent years: Europe is n...

October 20, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Non-Islamic Anti-Semitism in Europe

BERLIN — The wave of modern anti-Semitism across Europe in July and August revealed a dangerous amalgamation of left-wing, Islamic-animated, and right-wing extremist Jew-hatred. Ma...

September 25, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany’s Jewish Problem

With anti-Semitism on the march, Germany's politicians and opinion makers are grappling with what went wrong with the country's seven-decade-long struggle to come to terms with its past...

September 15, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Analysis: In Germany a gap between ‘Never Again-Jew-Hatred’ and real action?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a characteristically excellent speech against anti-Semitism on Sunday in the heart of the country’s government district. She lambast...

May 19, 2011 | |

Germany Now Rivals UK for Israel-Bashing

Britain has been the main European hub for groups advocating a boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) strategy against the Jewish state. Germany, however, has enacted policies which now make it a s...

May 16, 2011 |

Palestine’s German Friends

 The major media outlets reported this week that the German government and its fully-owned Deutsche Bahn railway company terminated participation in a long-planned Israeli rapid rail project...