Tag: Germany
Confronting Germany’s mixed record on tackling BDS
Malca Goldstein-Wolf, a German Jew, made headlines last year when she convinced the German broadcasting network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to pull its sponsorship of Roger Waters’ German tour. She wrote a heartfelt letter to WDR’s...
Two young couples set to revive Jewish life and Israeli culture in Berlin
Religious Zionists are usually the last types of Israelis to visit Berlin, let alone live there. As staunch nationalists loyal to the Jewish homeland, they’re often less forgiving of Germany’s dark past than their...
Germany to pay additional $88 million to Holocaust survivors
Germany has agreed to pay another $88 million to fund social-welfare services for Holocaust survivors, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany on Tuesday.
The country, which perpetrated mass murder...
More than 30 Jewish groups call on German government to confront anti-Semitism
More than 30 German Jewish groups have called on the government to confront anti-Semitism amid a spate of recent attacks on the Jewish community.
In a declaration published on Monday, Germany’s Jewish Forum for Democracy...
Survivors to receive higher German payments
Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced on Tuesday the outcomes from the organization’s negotiations on behalf of Jewish Holocaust survivors with the German government. “The...
Teens in Germany fire anti-Semitic insults at local rabbi
A Chabad rabbi in Offenbach, Germany, was the victim of a verbal assault on his way to synagogue this past weekend by a group of teenagers.
“They shouted, ‘sh**ty Jew’ and ‘Free Palestine’ and other...
Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future
History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. – Erik Qualman
Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating and horrifying truths of the Holocaust. We traveled to six countries—the Czech...
What Germans understand about BDS
Who ever thought Germans would have a better grasp of the need to stand up against anti-Semitism than the Scots?
It’s been more than seven decades since the end of World War II, but the...
Arab assailants in Berlin attack German Jewish teen listening to Israeli music
Arab assailants attacked a German Jewish teenager who was listening to Israeli music on his mobile phone on Saturday at the Zoologischer Garten train station in western Berlin.
The attackers cursed the teen, identified only...
Germany is far removed from its dark past, but its Iran policy remains sordid
If any country in the world could be expected to be extremely cautious about aligning with anyone calling for Israel’s annihilation, it would be Germany, regardless of any extenuating circumstances—economic, political or otherwise. The...