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Dec 22, 2020, 11:31 PM

BDS and its useful idiots in Germany

Like elsewhere in the world, in Germany, too, COVID-19 walks hand in hand with the a-Virus. Facing an exponential growth in anti-Semitic incidents, legislative measures are an important component in the battle against this threat. The anti-BDS resolution passed...

Nov 7, 2020, 8:04 PM

The Islamist echo grows louder

July 14, 2017: Three terrorists open fire near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Two Israeli policemen are killed, another is seriously injured. The terrorists come from the northern Arab-Israeli city of Umm el-Fahm. Over a period of 21 years...

Sep 16, 2020, 12:43 AM

Europe‘s mental lockdown

Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Bahrain, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates sign papers during the Abraham Accords Signing Ceremony at The White House on September 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA via Jewish News)

The EU continues to focus on Palestinian interests to its own detriment, as Arab states move on, achieving their own strategic objectives

Oct 17, 2019, 12:48 AM

The anti-Semitic attack in Halle – a tsunami of deja vus

Two images dominate the memory of my childhood in Munich. The first: the puzzled face of a boy in elementary school when I slapped him in the face after he said he had a problem with me being Jewish. This...

May 27, 2019, 11:35 PM

German Jews, Don’t hide

In the last two days, there was an outcry about comments made by Dr. Felix Klein, Germany’s Commissioner for the fight against Anti-Semitism. There are places in Germany, he said, where Jews are better advised not to openly wear...

Dec 16, 2018, 2:15 PM

Where does the anti-Semitic Virus come from?

Last Monday the EU published a survey about Antisemitism in Europe. For Germany, the results are especially shameful. 89 percent of German Jewish participants see a rise in Jew hatred. 75 percent avoid wearing Jewish symbols in public, 41...

Oct 8, 2018, 3:29 PM

The political paradoxes of German-Israeli ties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands during a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

There are far better reasons for strong bilateral ties than penance for the Holocaust

Sep 3, 2012, 3:23 PM

For German Jews, time to wield kippa and Krav Maga

Should we pretend that anti-Semitism in Germany is not more unbearable than anywhere else in the world?

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Melody Sucharewicz is a German-Israeli communication and strategy consultant and a former foreign affairs adviser to Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Follow her on Twitter: @MelodySucharew

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