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Feb 11, 2019, 3:18 AM

“Please give me some latkes before you kill me”: Jews and neo-Nazis in Germany

Our climate is in trouble. Both the climate and climate change as well as the political climate, the political cultures of our societies. My piece about journalist Henryk M. Broder on Tablet Magazine on Monday, February 4, has created...

Jan 27, 2019, 7:45 PM

How German is the Jewish Museum Berlin?

Currently, the “Jewish” Museum Berlin is criticized for its distorting of Jerusalem and the Jewish impact on Jerusalem. Volker Beck (The Greens), longtime MP (1994–2017) and former head of the German-Israel Group of Parliamentarians in the German Bundestag (2013–2017),...

Oct 30, 2018, 5:59 PM

Pittsburgh, Trump and the End of an Era: Angela Merkel’s Stepping Down will lead to more Antisemitism around the world

On Saturday, October 27, 2018, the worst antisemitic attack ever in the US took place, when a 46year-old American neo-Nazi massacred 11 Jews in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. He screamed, “All Jews have to die”. Nazism...

Mar 12, 2018, 4:04 PM

Kenneth L. Marcus’ Oxymoron: Trump and Civil Rights

Fighting for civil rights and working for Donald Trump is an oxymoron. Activist Kenneth L. Marcus was nominated as assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education. A first committee hearing took place on December 5,...

Nov 18, 2017, 7:00 AM

Jews should stop supporting the Alt-Right and the enemies of the Jewish people

In these troubled days there is no inclination for a flowery introduction. No time for the flowers when 60,000 neo-Nazis march through the streets of Warsaw, flaunting Nazi salutes and promoting a “white” Poland while the minister of the...

Oct 14, 2017, 7:32 PM

Historian Jürgen Zimmerer promotes post-colonial Antisemitism

In a debate in the German weekly Freitag 34/2017, published October 8, 2017, its publisher Jakob Augstein, known for his anti-Israel stance, and his colleague, Michael Angele, interviewed journalist Alan Posener and historian Jürgen Zimmerer about colonialism and the...

Sep 21, 2017, 12:39 PM

First Neo-Nazi Party to be elected to the German federal parliament on Sept 24?

On September 24, 2017, elections will be held for the German Federal Parliament, the Bundestag. For the first time since it was established in 1949, a neo-Nazi party will probably be elected to seats in parliament. It is the...

Sep 5, 2017, 8:52 PM

Berlin Pro-Israel Politician on SWC list of “antisemitic slurs”?

Since when is activity to increase trade, business and political relations with Israel part of the antisemitic BDS movement? This question come to one’s mind if we consider a recent article by Jerusalem Post’s Benjamin Weinthal, who reported that the...

Aug 17, 2017, 5:25 PM

‘Jews will not replace us’ – for US-President Trump, the Alt-Right are ‘fine people’

Charlottesville is the 9/11 of the political culture in America. 9/11 was an attack from the Muslim world and encouraged jihadists and scholars to embrace Islamism, to fight America, the West, Jews and Israel. Charlottesville, on the other side,...

Jun 28, 2017, 6:23 PM

A “pro-Israel” Propaganda Film from Germany

A new and very controversial film in Germany indicates the very low level of the pro-Israel community in Germany. The film “Chosen and Excluded – Hatred of the Jews in Europe today” by filmmakers Joachim Schröder and Sophie Hafner...

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Dr Clemens Heni is director of The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)