Germans and jews

'Unrestrained antisemitism': German politicians, Jewish leaders warn over Left Party’s rise

Left Party's leader Elif Eralp - who is of Turkish origin - has been compared to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani due to her pro-Palestine anti-capitalist populist beliefs.

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader, Friedrich Merz, walks to attend a press conference, after the state elections, in Berlin, Germany, September 21, 2026.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with Berlin's Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, at Berlin's synagogue.

Germany's Merz visits Berlin's Chabad brass with officials in solidarity with rising antisemitism

 Designated German Family Minister Karin Prien poses for a picture, on the day of a CDU party conference to formally sign off on a coalition agreement reached with the Social Democrats, in Berlin, Germany April 28, 2025.

German gov't appoints Holocaust survivors' granddaughter as first Jewish minister in 100 years

 Pro-Palestinian poster hanging at the Northwestern University campus

Individuals who post 'From the River to the Sea' to be denied German citizenship


Middle Israel: Opposite the pillar of fire

The sorrow that flooded France was not about one wounded structure, but about a nation’s lost soul.

PEOPLE GAZE at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris two days after a massive fire devastated large parts of the gothic structure

Wiesenthal Center urges removal of Anne Frank’s name from NGO due to antisemitism

Alleged Anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist and Israel-hater Daniel Bax is slated to speak at the Anne Frank Educational Center.

Anne Frank in 1940

Classic Holocaust TV miniseries to be shown in Germany

The series, which aired on NBC over four nights in April 1978, won several Emmy and Golden Globe awards and a large audience.

Meryl Streep at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards show in Beverly Hills, California, US, January 8, 2017

Netta to perform for Jewish youth in Germany

Jewrovision invites Jewish performers aged 10 to 19 to perform with theme connected to Jewish heritage.

Cyprus’s Eleni Foureira and Israel’s Netta react after the Semi-Final 1 for Eurovision Song Contest 2018 at the Altice Arena hall in Lisbon, Portugal, May 8, 2018

German official deletes antisemitic tweet equating Jesus with the Palestinians

The director of Germany’s Near and Middle East department at the foreign ministry deleted a tweet widely criticized as antisemitic because it compared the repression of Jesus to the Palestinians.

People walk past the seat of the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, March 1, 2018.

'Anti-racism' rally in Berlin calls for destruction of Israel

Demonstrators at the march hoisted symbols in support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Protesters gather to the "#unteilbar", demonstration which aims to "rise up against discrimination, poverty, racism, sexism, disenfranchisement, and nationalism" in Berlin, Germany, October 13, 2018

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.

a holocaust survivor wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

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.

Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet seen before an interview with Reuters in Berlin, Germany, December 15, 2017.

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.

BDS activists in Berlin

A story of survival

Vesper Stamper has created a heartrending graphic novel about a teenage girl in the Holocaust

A DRAWING from ‘What the Night Sings’ depicting the barracks in Bergen-Belsen