Benjamin Weinthal
Benjamin Weinthal is a European correspondent at The Jerusalem Post and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Benjamin Weinthal is a European correspondent at The Jerusalem Post and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
A German University seminar designed to teach that Israel harvests Palestinians’ organs ignited a new debate about anti-Semitism this week. There is, however, a kind of poverty to the discussion. Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites largely captures the parameters of the debate…
read moreA German university face scathing criticism from Israel’s foreign ministry for teaching students that the Jewish state is an apartheid government that harvests Palestinian organs and commits genocidal atrocities. “This is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew hatred. This…
read moreThe 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 to compel a change in its behavior over its illicit nuclear weapons…
read moreHarvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said on Friday that he would like to become an honorary citizen of Israel to fight the boycott movement. “I think the good answer to the BDS movement is to institutionalize what Evgeny Kissin did,”…
read moreBERLIN – In an eye-opening interview, Bruce Bawer, an American literary critic, writer and poet and a sharp critic of European anti-Semitism and radical Islam, who lives in Norway, talks to The Jerusalem Post about the outbreak of Jew-hatred and…
read moreMany European governments tend to feign shock that hatred of Israel is the most ubiquitous form of contemporary anti-Semitism While Europe commemorated International Holocaust Day last month, the European Union is experiencing an explosion of modern anti-Semitism. Have the lessons…
read morehttp://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=3c67cacb-d273-4ff8-a5ef-98f57b5a831c&k=6315 To confront Iran, the United States must first confront Europe–and more specifically, the continent’s powerful business lobby. This confrontation will come into focus in the next months. As Iran refuses Barack Obama’s open-handed offer of engagement, the administration will…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1246443717126 BERLIN – The former Canadian justice minister and Liberal Party MP Irwin Cotler has urged the German government to take a leadership role within the EU and impose tough multipronged sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Germany is…
read morehttp://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/Israel-UN-Rassismus;art123,2747998 Frank Jansen und Benjamin Weinthal Berlin – Die deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen stehen vor einer Belastungsprobe. Anlass ist die für Ende April geplante zweite Durban-Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen in Genf, an der die Bundesrepublik trotz sich abzeichnender antisemitischer Tendenzen teilnehmen will.…
read moreDie steigende Unzufriedenheit mit der Leitung des Berliner Zentrums für Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA) hat sich seit der vom ZfA im Dezember durchgeführten Konferenz „Feindbild Muslim – Feindbild Jude“ weiter verstärkt. In der Konferenz des aus Steuermitteln finanzierten Berliner Zentrums wurde der…
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