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German bank's 'antisemitism' leads United Israel Appeal to shut account

“There must be no free pass for antisemitism and hatred of Israel in Germany. We cannot and will not silently watch.”

Post Exposé causes German city to remove BDS advertisement

When the Post clicked on the link to the now-defunct Palestine Committee entry, the page reads "Page not found."

Israel slams German academy for hosting Hezbollah, Hamas, BDS supporters

"By merely looking at the list of persons invited to the seminar, it is quite clear that is an event whose aim and purpose is Israel hatred under guise of a pseudo academia."

Berlin-financed NGO cancels talk with ‘antisemitic’ activist Manal Tamimi

Tamimi, who has been accused of hardcore antisemitism by European Jews and others, is the aunt of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi, who completed a prison term for assaulting Israeli soldiers.

German festival kicks out pro-BDS musician Brian Eno

Eno is a fierce opponent of Israel and exerted enormous pressure on the Australian singer Nick Cave to not perform in Israel in 2017.

Top German social democrat urges bank to end Israel boycott support

Engelmeier’s call for the bank to stop its BDS business is the first instance of a federal-level politician in Germany weighing in on the bank.

‘Where are memorials to remember perpetrators of the Holocaust?’

Charlotte Knobloch, the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and current head of the Munich Jewish community, has long opposed the stumbling block memorials.

Netanyahu to visit Vienna for antisemitism summit at end of November

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced the summit and Netanyahu’s participation at a press conference in Vienna Wednesday morning.

Despite sanctions, Germany supports Iran trade with nearly 1 billion in credit

The German Press Agency revealed the credit guarantee figure on Saturday, noting that the nearly 1 billion euros have been provided to German firms to protect their business with Iran.

German Jewish students urge Munich university to cancel BDS talk

The event is titled “Israel, Palestine and the limits of what is sayable.”

German state commissioner against antisemitism wants BDS account closed

“Because the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg rejected the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] campaign, I would like to speak to the state’s bank," he said.

German bank under fire for allegedly enabling hatred of Israel

"Whoever actively supports antisemitic organizations such as BDS contributes to the further strengthening of antisemitism and Israel hatred."

German state parliament bans BDS while anti-Israel bank defies resolution

“We condemn the antisemitic and anti-Israel BDS campaign and the call to boycott Israeli products and companies as well as Israeli academics and artists.”

'Arab-looking' men attack Jewish Israeli in night club in Germany

The two suspects asked the 20-year-old Israeli about his nationality. He responded that he is “half-Israeli” and affirmed that he is Jewish.

Neo-nazis attacked Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz amid right-wing protests

German authorities are investigating the incident.

Jewish activists call anti-foreigner riots a threat to German democracy

Josef Schuster said it was alarming that so many people had no hesitation “to hunt down certain groups of people based on rumors and call for vigilante justice.”

German bank shuts account of group sympathetic to Palestinian terrorists

The International Alliance used its Sparkasse account in the university city of Witten to secure donations.

“Boycott the boycotts,” of BDS, says German youth labor union federation

“Boycott the boycotts,” wrote the DGB youth organization in its 2017 pro-Israel resolution.

White powder sent in letters to Israel Embassy in Berlin and others

The police spokeswoman could not say if the man, whom she termed mentally unstable, wrote the same letter to all the embassies.

Merkel party’s think tank compares Israel’s security wall to Berlin Wall

The Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation “fails to distinguish between justified and non-justified walls,” Dr. Efraim Zuroff told The Jerusalem Post.

Antisemitic crimes increase dramatically in Germany

There were 401 antisemitic crimes in Germany from January through June.

German AfD party condemns member for calling Hitler attacker a traitor

Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) condemned a party member on Thursday for branding a German officer who tried to kill Adolf Hitler a traitor.

German police who attacked Israeli professor used Nazi slogan

Prof. Yitzhak Melamedsaid said on his Facebook page that a man stalked him and asked him if he was Jewish and yelled, "F*** Jews. I f*** Jews” and “No Jews in Germany.”

Envoy gets anti-Israel talk at Berlin Jewish museum canceled

The slated talk was to be delivered by the US-based academic Sa’ed Atshan who said in 2014: “We all know Israel is an apartheid state and should be boycotted.”

Facebook must adhere to German Holocaust denial laws, says Berlin

"There must be no place for antisemitism. This includes verbal and physical attacks on Jews as well as the denial of Holocaust," Justice Minister Katarina Barley said on Thursday.

American Jews lead kippah solidarity walk in heart of Berlin

The walk was held during a five-day mission of JFNA, which brought some 150 participants from 34 Jewish federations in the United States to Berlin and Budapest.

German intel report: Iran seeks to shatter states' stability with WMD

Iran and North Korea aim to circumvent embargoes

Neo-Nazi murder gang member jailed for life in Germany

The Gang killed eight Turks, a Greek man and a German policewoman.

Letter by Martin Luther calling Jews 'devils incarnate' up for auction

1543 note expected to be sold for more than $300,000

Jewish man assaulted in Berlin for wearing a Star of David

The victim told Deutsche Welle that when a member of the group saw his Star of David he shouted “anti-Semitic insults,” grabbed the cigarette from his mouth and punched him.

Berlin museum returns Nazi-looted sculpture to heirs of Jewish owners

The Saulmanns’ descendants hired researchers who managed to locate 11 artworks from their collection, which landed in five German museums and three private collections.

German spy agency acknowledges employing Himmler's daughter

Gudrun Burwitz worked for the BND spy agency, this was confirmed by the BND after it was reported by Bild newspaper.

NGO rescinds award to U.S. Women's March due to antisemitism

Social democrats accused US Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour of antisemitism.

Merkel to step down in 2021, ending era of German politics

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to remain chancellor until 2021.

EXCLUSIVE: German bank holds account for soon-to-be-sanctioned Iran Air

Iran Air has been accused of aiding Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his war against Syrian opposition groups.

Germany urges other EU states to also stop arms exports to Saudi Arabia

So far this year the German government had approved weapons exports worth more than 400 million euros ($462 million) to Saudi Arabia, making it the second-biggest recipient of German arms.

Head of German Jewish community revealed to be non-Jewish

The case of Wolfgang Seibert’s alleged fake Jewish identity is not the first instance of non-Jewish Germans falsely depicting their religious background.

German center for antisemitism research hires alleged ‘antisemite’

“You would imagine something like this would be done in Iran. Set up an institute to study antisemitism and invite antisemites to work there.”

German-Iranian consultant resigns from pro-Iran group

Pro-Israel Iranian exposed alleged IRGC business

German city promotes boycott-Israel group on its website

The city’s promotion of the pro-BDS group comes in stark contrast to the anti-BDS resolution passed on Sunday by the state’s Green Party at its conference.

Germany's best-selling paper calls for end of Iran trade to protect Israel

“It is high time to ask oneself where the money that Iran is earning by this trade is going," Dr. Schuster said.

Merkel stays silent on pro-Iran policy ahead of Israel visit

Merkel was silent on her government’s advocacy for the controversial 2015 Iran atomic deal.

Report: Syrian migrant in Germany arrested for planning attack in Israel

A German police spokesman confirmed that a Syrian migrant was arrested, but did not confirm the rest of the report.

Nazis took his citizenship as a child, today it will be restored

Fred Amram will be re-naturalized by the German consul general during a ceremony Tuesday at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Turkish-German teen who plotted to blow up gay club in Frankfurt arrested

The intelligence source confirmed that Erkocoglu also targeted a Catholic church in Frankfurt -- the financial center of Germany.

German Catholic Church admits "shameful" abuse legacy after stats leaked

The document revealed that 1,670 clerics and priests had sexually abused 3,677 minors, mostly males, in the country between 1946 and 2014.

Merkel condemns far-right xenophobia, Nazi slogans

In a speech to parliament the chancellor responded to remarks by far-right leader who accused her of spreading fake news.

Germany says in talks about possible military role in Syria

Overseas military action remains a sensitive and deeply unpopular topic in Germany, given its Nazi past.

Pressure grows on German spy chief over Chemnitz protests

Merkel on Thursday accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of using violent protests over the Chemnitz stabbing to stir up ethnic tension.

German state to investigate far-right AfD for 'unconstitutional goals'

Sixty-five percent of Germans considered it appropriate to put the entire anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) under surveillance, a poll conducted for broadcaster ARD showed on Thursday.

Pressure rises for surveillance of Germany's far-right AfD party

About 6,000 supporters of the two groups demonstrated in the eastern city of Chemnitz on Saturday against the fatal stabbing of a man, allegedly by two migrants.

German city hit by far-right violence braces for rival protests

After the fatal stabbing in Chemnitz, its leaders said the violent riots that followed were understandable.

Three sought for 'xenophobic' attack on migrant in eastern German town

The migrant, who police did not name, was walking home in Wismar, a town on the Baltic coast.

Statue of Erdogan removed from German city due to incitement of violence

The statue was put in the town square on Monday by artists for Wiesbaden’s Bienalle art festival.

German foreign minister in hot water over effort to bypass Iran sanctions

“Circumventing sanctions on an Iranian regime that is committed in word and deed to destroy Israel for financial gain for German companies makes a mockery of that [Berlin’s] commitment."

More refugees find jobs in Germany, integration going 'pretty well'

The number of employed migrants surged by more than 100,000 to 306,574 in May, data from the Labour Office showed.

German Left party MPs fulfill ‘long tradition of hatred of Jews’

The anti-Israel resolution is part of the “antisemitic, anti-Zionist elements” of the German Left and is “fulfilling a long tradition of hatred of Jews."

German businesses suffering as U.S. sanctions and tariffs bite

"Of course the US policies are impacting German foreign trade."

German governor boycotts anti-Israel music festival affiliated with BDS

He will not attend the Ruhrtriennale arts and music festival.

German ministry: No decision yet on Iran bid to withdraw cash

The US embassy in Berlin this week said it expected Germany to block the cash withdrawal under new central bank rules on money laundering that take effect on August 25.

Report: Iran using German companies to finance war in Yemen

Germany is widely considered the least cooperative of European allies in confronting Iran's bellicose activities, according to two sources familiar with US-German talks on the Iran nuclear deal.

Jewish National Fund slated to end business with German bank enabling BDS

The JNF was re-established in Germany in 1953, and has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.

Exclusive: German intelligence contradicts Merkel on Iran's nuclear drive

The domestic intelligence agencies in Germany are the functional equivalent of Israel’s Shin Bet.

Violent attacks committed against Jews in Berlin and Zurich

Germany has experienced a wave of violent antisemitic attacks, largely committed by German Muslims.

Middle Israel: Germany's tragic heroine

Once hailed as a United Europe’s George Washington, Angela Merkel now emerges as the admiral atop its sinking Titanic.

Yad Vashem launches Kristalnacht exhibition for pogrom’s 80th anniversary

The artifacts featured in the exhibition provide a window into the lives of those who experienced the events of 9 November 1938, and give a glimpse into German and Austrian Jewish life before WWII.

Oren Safdie set to debut his latest play in Arkansas

The Canadian-American-Israeli playwright has penned 'Things to Do in Munich' - a dark comedy about absurd bureaucracy and antisemitism in Germany in the 1970s

Sports analytics company Track160 signs deal with German Football League

As part of the deal, the company will team up with DFL, the umbrella company of professional soccer in Germany.

German politician who said Israel executes Palestinians urged to resign

Social Democratic Union legislator accused of ‘making Jew-hatred respectable’.

Rivlin tells Merkel there is zero tolerance for antisemitism

Rivlin commented that some profess to being pro-Israel but despise Jews. "This does not fool us. As far as we are concerned there is no such thing as loving Israel and hating Jews."

Netanyahu to Merkel: Our close ties prove that we can transform history

We have disagreements, German Chancellor says, but they will not hold us up.

Netanyahu, Merkel underscore danger of Iranian regime, praise cooperation

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany wants zero Iranian presence in Syria.

The onset of austerity

The early years of ‘Tzena’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Israel

Merkel is set to join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for dinner and then will have a busy schedule ahead of her.

German chancellor’s arrival – better late than never

For Merkel, the head of a weak coalition government under pressure from the far Right, there is little domestic political upside to this trip – especially now, with the Khan al-Ahmar issue very much alive and with the death toll mounting along the Gaza fence.

German governor opens Israel office, refuses to ban Hezbollah, Iran trade

“Israel is the enemy – we carry out resistance,” said in 2017 Hassan Jawad, chairman of the Hezbollah-affiliated imam Mahdi center in the city of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Leading scientist: Science Minister Akunis is damaging Israeli-German ties

Professor Yael Amitai slammed Science Minister Ofir Akunis for " a corrupt political spin meant at self-promotion."

Germany lifts ban on Nazi imagery for gaming

Programs that prove ‘socially adequate’ relevance can include swastikas

Narrating German history

Konrad Jarausch draws on six dozen memoirs of Germans born in the 1920s to illuminate life in the 20th century

Iran plot in Paris 'lays bare' terrorist intentions, Pompeo says

Tehran has 'ramped up' terror plans, claims State Department paper.

Yazidi victims of ISIS fear for lives in Germany due to ISIS presence

The harrowing story is the most shocking case of a former survivor of the ISIS genocide in Iraq, that led to the ethnic cleansing of more than 400,000 Yazidis.

German firms in line with U.S. Iran sanctions

Several European companies have suspended plans to invest in Iran in light of the US sanctions.

German Jewish council urges end of Iran-Germany trade

In a statement to 'The Jerusalem Post', Dr. Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council, did not mince words: “I endorse an immediate stop of any economic relation with Iran."

Report: Germany considers Iranian bid to withdraw 300 million euros cash

Washington has announced new sanctions on Iran and ordered all countries to stop buying Iranian oil by November and foreign firms to stop doing business there or face US blacklists.

German intel: Iran wants to expand weapons into nuclear arsenal

“Iran, North Korea, Syria and Pakistan are making efforts to expand their conventional weapons arsenal through the production of weapons of mass destruction,” the Bavarian intelligence agency said.

‘Cakemaker’ takes top prize at Jewish film festival in Germany

Israel was a key component of the festival.

Angela Merkel’s duplicity on Israel

Germany is being inconsistent and duplicitous and the time has come to say it loud and clear.

Welcome Chancellor Merkel

German and Austrian media on the attack

Thus did Austrian and German media seek to imply a Canadian organization learning about immigration and Islamization problems in four countries were like neo-Nazis clandestinely paying homage to Adolf Hitler.

Merkel and Iran

During her trip to Israel, her first in more than four years, Merkel will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa at a ceremony on Thursday at the Israel Museum in recognition of her “groundbreaking leadership,” her opposition to antisemitism and her strengthening of scientific cooperation between Germany and Israel.

Challenges to German-Israeli relations

Germany’s steering wheel is in the hands of Angela Merkel, a chancellor enjoying domestic political success similar to that of Adenauer, and sharing his views about the Jewish state.

Germany’s actions prove its sympathies with authoritarians

Berlin portrays itself as leader of free world but its policy contradicts.

Someone should ask for forgiveness

Israel and Germany: a complicated historic bond

Just as we look back at our history with despair and sorrow, we should look to our present and future relations with inspiration, imagination and innovation.

Lüneburg, Germany: A medieval town remembers the Holocaust

A concerted effort by the town fathers to preserve the past has resulted in making Lüneburg an architectural medieval masterpiece.

From the Kaiser to Khamenei: The underreported Berlin-Tehran axis

Just as the rise of Nazi Germany didn’t impede relations with Iran, neither did the rise of another antisemitic authoritarian regime.

The conference that paved the way to the murder of millions

In one fateful day, 200,000 Austrian Jews were caught in the jaws of the power-hungry, Jew-hating monsters to whom nothing was sweeter than Jewish blood.

How Germany became America's conscience, and why we should listen

Chancellor Angela Merkel declared last year and again after the recent July NATO summit that Europe can no longer rely on the United States conducting itself in the future as a force for order.

Hungary's Orbán and the Jewish nation-state law

Which team do you support – Team Merkon or Team Orbvini?