‘Post’ Exposé Leads To Closure Of BDS Group’s Bank Account In Germany
[Jpost] Iris Hefets, spokeswoman for Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, confirmed that the German Bank for Social Economy pulled the plug on the group’s account because Jewish Voice refused to stop promoting the BDS campaign against Israel.
The Wiesenthal Center included the bank in its 2018 top 10 list of worst outbreaks of antisemitism.
The closure of the account follows a May German parliament resolution declaring BDS antisemitic.
Jewish Voice’s account with the bank was first exposed by the Post in 2016. The bank terminated the account in November of that year, but reopened it in 2017 after a campaign from pro-BDS and pro-Palestinian activists.
German Protestant church cancels BDS event linked to Palestinian terrorism
[Jpost] The Protestant Church of Germany has canceled an event that was scheduled to feature two hardcore pro-BDS activists, one of whom has ties to fund-raising for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the EU and the US have designated a terrorist organization.
“We at Church Day have a clear attitude and have therefore asked the @rosaluxstiftung to disinvite the controversial speakers or to cancel the event,” the church tweeted on Thursday. “The foundation has canceled the event planned for Friday.”
Church Day is a Protestant mass event that is being held this year in the city of Dortmund from June 19-23. The tweet cancelling the event was sent to the Church Day’s more than 7,200 followers.
The @rosaluxstiftung is the Twitter feed for the left-wing Rosa Luxemburg Foundation that is affiliated with the The Left Party – a German political party in the Bundestag filled with scores of anti-Israel MPs.
The news website Ruhrbarone first broke the story about the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation hosting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists: South African Islamic theologian Farid Esack, chair of BDS South Africa, and Protestant theologian Ulrich Duchrow, who has praised Hamas “as a serious political force with great social depth.”