The chairman of the German-Israel parliament group on Thursday attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for meeting primarily with NGOs critical of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. Green Party MP Volker Beck said that “The balance of the discussion partners speaks not only for a special passion—the so-called...

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday warned that Israel might be forced to take preemptive action against Hezbollah to take out the terrorist organization’s weapons arsenal. Rivlin made the remarks after Israeli warplanes struck one of the Syrian regime’s key missile and...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party, the Christian Democratic Union, adopted a resolution on Wednesday that condemned the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, calling the movement anti-Semitic. “The German CDU declares with this motion its disapproval and rejection of every form of BDS activity and condemns these activities as anti-Semitic,”...

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Germany on Tuesday reiterated its refusal to normalize relations with Iran until the Islamic Republic recognizes Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. “There cannot be normalized, complete relations with Iran so long as Iran does not recognize Israel’s right to exist,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration said in a letter to German parliamentarian Volker Beck, the...

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One year after it signed the nuclear deal, Iran is still attempting to secretly procure illicit nuclear technology and equipment, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency revealed last week. In its 317-page annual report, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, known by its German acronym BfV, said that Iran is engaging...

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Germany will not fully normalize ties with Iran until it recognizes Israel, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin Tuesday. Although German government and business leaders have been making overtures to Iran in recent months after the Islamic Republic’s economy was freed up...

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A wide range of Jewish organizations in both the U.S. and Europe criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for announcing that it will follow the European Union’s controversial guidelines to label Israeli goods from the West Bank and the Golan Heights, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Calling...

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A German court ruled last week that an firebomb attack on a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July was motivated by a desire to bring “attention to the Gaza conflict,” not anti-Semitism, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other prominent German political and religious leaders attended a rally in Berlin this weekend to show their support for the country’s Jewish minority and to express zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. “That people in Germany are threatened and abused because of their appearance or their support...

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An annual European Union (EU) report dedicated to to assessing Turkey’s progress in ascending to the bloc has evaluated Turkey in light of the mass anti-government protests that rocked the country last May and June. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdo has violently cracked down on demonstrators, suppressed coverage of...

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