Posts Tagged: germany
What Germans Understand About BDS
JNS.org – Who ever thought Germans would have a better grasp of the need to stand up against antisemitism than the Scots? It’s been more than...
The Situation in Germany Is Deteriorating for Jews — and Everyone
"The twelve years of national socialist rule was a speck of bird poop compared to the more than thousand years of Germany's glorious past." This graphic...
Distorted Antisemitism Statistics in Germany
The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer recently presented the country’s criminal statistics for 2017. These included 1,500 criminal antisemitic acts -- about four...
Students at Top German University Denounce ‘Antisemitic’ BDS, Vote to Withhold Funds and Space From BDS Advocates
The Student Council of Heidelberg University in Germany adopted a proposal on Tuesday denouncing the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel as "antisemitic." The...
Netanyahu Holds Marathon Series of Talks With World Leaders After Iran Nuclear Program Revelations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been holding a marathon series of talks with world leaders following his revelation of a cache of thousands of documents...
Germany’s Refusal to Attack Syria Shows Moral Failure
After repeated chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime on its own citizens, the United States, the UK, and Francefinally took military action to punish Bashar Assad. But one ally was...
Arab Media Upset By Merkel’s Criticism of Arab Antisemitism
NBC reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denounced a “different type of anti-Semitism” that has taken root in her country. She also vowed to do everything possible to...
Suspect in Antisemitic Attack in Berlin Turns Himself in
German police said on Thursday that a suspected perpetrator of an antisemitic attack had turned himself in after investigators managed to identify him with the...
Jews, Israel and the Glib German Coalition Agreement
As far as Jews and Israel are concerned, the proposed German coalition agreement is a glib document. This is partly because of its content --...
German Court Rules ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,’ 96, Must Go to Jail
Germany's constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp...
Jerusalem Protests, Study on Migrants Show ‘Potent Recipe’ for Antisemitism in Germany
JNS.org - Due to the wars in Syria and Iraq as well as other conflicts in Asia and Africa, Germany took in more than 1 million migrants...
Hanukkah and Christmas Lights Intertwine in Former Nazi Hotbed
JNS.org - Most residents of Tübingen, Germany, probably don’t even know that the local “synagogenplatz” (synagogue plaza) even exists. The rusted memorial to the synagogue -- which burned...
German Court Rules in Favor of Discrimination Against Israelis by Kuwait Airways
JNS.org – A district court in Frankfurt, Germany, has ruled in favor of Kuwait Airways in a discrimination case brought by an Israeli passenger who was...
Two Ex-Nazi Camp Guards Charged in Germany Over Hundreds of Holocaust Deaths
German prosecutors investigating Nazi-era crimes said on Wednesday they had charged two former SS officers in their 90s with complicity in hundreds of murders at...
