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The Berliner Sparkasse bank has frozen the account of anti-zionist Jewish organisation.

Isadora Spoerer och Francisco Cortes lämnade livet och stadspulsen i Berlin för lugnet i...

How so? “As representatives of public cultural and research institutions in Germany, we share a mandate from the state to promote arts and culture, historical research, and democratic education and to make these accessible to the general public,” their statement began. “Toward this end, we rely on a public sphere that welcomes controversial debates in accordance with the norms of the German constitution.” Their manifesto continued: “We are further committed to paying particular attention to marginalized and disregarded voices that stand for cultural diversity and critical persp...

The Bundestag, BDS and ex-pat Israelis in Berlin Featured Column The Bundestag, BDS and ex-pat Israelis in Berlin The School for Unlearning Zionism is one endeavor whose funding was cut thanks to a German parliamentary resolution. (December 15, 2020 / JNS) At a news conference in Berlin on Thursday, the directors of 32 academic and cultural institutions—some in attendance and others via Zoom—presented an open letter to protest the May 2019 Bundestag resolution categorizing BDS as anti-Semitic. The resolution was based on the “working definition of anti-Semitism,” formulated by the Int...