Tag: Germany
Germany’s lessons for BDS
Three incidents in three different countries during the last week graphically illustrated the ease with which anti-Zionism can serve as a vehicle for anti-Semitism.
In the Austrian city of Graz, the president of the Jewish...
Germany tries to calm rising Greece-Turkey tensions in eastern Mediterranean
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas visited Greece and is also scheduled to visit Turkey on Tuesday in an effort to calm rising tensions between the two countries over energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean,...
August 25, 1944: Paris is liberated after four years of Nazi occupation
After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. German resistance was light, and General Dietrich von Choltitz, commander of...
Germany’s anti-Semitism allies
Part of the challenge of the anti-Semitism debate is its sheer multiplicity of aspects. One cannot simply rate a specific act according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism to determine...
August 13, 1961: Construction Begins on Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin....
The lonely, angry anti-Semite
At high school, he made no friends and didn’t belong to any clubs. He liked girls, but having a girlfriend was beyond his abilities. Academically, he was undistinguished, doing well in biology but failing...
State Department: ‘Much work remains’ to provide restitution to Holocaust survivors and their descendants
Property belonging to Holocaust survivors and their descendants have yet to be returned to their rightful owners, in addition to restitution to these people, is an issue largely unresolved 70 years after the end...
Jewish community expresses alarm over Trump nominee for German ambassador
The organized Jewish community has been expressing concern over the nomination of retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor as U.S. ambassador to Germany to succeed Richard Grenell.
In a 2012 interview with The Daily Bell, Macgregor blamed neoconservatives,...
German foreign ministry hires woman who supports anti-Israel rally in Iran
The German Foreign Ministry hired Nurhan Soykan, a woman who has defended the annual Iranian “Quds (Jerusalem) Day” rally that calls for the destruction of Israel.
Andreas Görgen, director of the Foreign Ministry’s department for...
Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber.
The event is timed...