Berlin Suspends Submarine Deal With Israel Amid Corruption Probe
Co-written by Anna Ahronheim. Amos Gilead, a decorated retired IDF general and defense official, testified on Tuesday before the police’s Lahav 443 investigative unit amid...
Yacov Hadas-Handelsman
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...
Op-eds
Remove Terror Sponsor From German University, Says Israel Ambassador
Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ya’acov Hadas-Handelsman urged the University of Hamburg to dismiss South African Islamic theologian Farid Esack, who has been accused of antisemitism, p...
Op-eds
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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Analysis: BDS initiatives and their counter-efforts play out across Europe
Europe's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement has long percolated down through many layers of society. However, this month saw a range of countervailing forces designed to blunt the mo...
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Germany harbors 300 Hamas, 950 Hezbollah members and activists
Some 300 Hamas members and supporters – as well as 950 Hezbollah activists and members – are operating in Germany, the country’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual...
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German Bank Closes Account of Pro-Iran, Pro-Hezbollah Supporters
The German Commerzank has shut down the account of the al-Quds day demonstration—an annual march in German cities calling for the destruction of Israel—according to the bank’s s...
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Israeli Envoy to Germany Asks if Breaking the Silence Spreads Anti-Semitism
After the Cologne Municipality reversed its cancellation of an exhibit from the Breaking the Silence NGO, Israel’s ambassador asked whether the anti-IDF exhibit will encourage hatred of Jew...
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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...
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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...
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Envoy to Germany: Awardee Ignores Terror on Israel
Israel’s Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman criticized on Monday the decision of the city of Frankfurt to award the Adorno prize to US professor Judith Butler....