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The US government’s top continental European ambassador Richard Grenell urged the chairman of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign affairs committee in the Bundestag not to sabotage the US effort to help Israel and Palestinians reach a peace agreement. Grenell, the US…
read moreThreats 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 towards Tehran. “Threatening the destruction of Israel is something that should not be dismissed, especially when the threats…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East announced on Wednesday that over 500 intellectuals signed a petition urging the Berlin Jewish Museum to return to its original mission of education about German-Jewish history and back off from promoting the Boycott, Sanctions…
read moreJeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about an anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull the plug on the academic’s scheduled July talk. The slated talk was to be…
read moreInternational 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 worst cases of anti-Israel and antisemitic activity in 2018…
read moreThe German Corporation for International Cooperation said on Friday that it had fired one employee and disciplined two additional workers in response to scores of allegations of antisemitic Facebook posts by the company’s staff, including at their location in Jordan,…
read moreThe Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, better known by the acronym BDS, targeting Israel has largely been viewed as a Palestinian- and Western European-driven campaign with the alleged goal of advancing Palestinian statehood. Yet the Islamic Republic of Iran’s key…
read moreA German bank has been catapulted into an anti-Israel scandal because it provides an account to an NGO that supports Israelis who desert from or refuse to serve in the IDF. The Jerusalem Post’s ongoing investigative series into the financial…
read moreThe Austrian National Union of Students passed on Friday a motion against BDS, saying that the boycott movement targeting Israel is antisemitic, and that its demands recall the Nazis’ economic war against Jewish businesses. It is believed to be the…
read moreU.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against America and Israel may be the harbinger of a successful strategy against BDS. BDS—or the Boycott, Sanctions and…
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