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E.U. diplomat Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff went paragliding off the coast of Gaza to raise awareness for a "Free Palestine." Credit: European Union.

EU distances itself from German envoy’s Gaza stunt

MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen filed formal questions to E.U. foreign-policy chief Joseph Borrell in response to JNS's reporting.

July 31, 2023

EU diplomat Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff went paragliding off the coast of Gaza to raise awareness for a "Free Palestine." Credit: European Union.

Diplomat paraglides over Gaza for ‘Free Palestine,’ drawing ire

German diplomat Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff's visit to the coastal enclave marked the end of his posting in the region.

Akiva Van Koningsveld

July 19, 2023

The smashed back window of a car driven by German tourists, attacked by Palestinian youth in Nablus in the West Bank on March 18, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Being the right or wrong color in Nablus

A mob of Palestinian Arabs hurled potentially lethal rocks at German tourists in a car bearing a yellow license plate, assuming they were Israeli Jews.

Stephen M. Flatow

March 20, 2023

Palestinian police stand next to an Israeli sharing car driven by German tourists, attacked by Palestinian youth in Shechem (Nablus) in northern Samaria on March 18, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Palestinians mob German tourists who entered Nablus in Israeli vehicle

“A mob attacking tourists because they don‘t like their license plate is disgusting and cowardly,” says German ambassador to Israel.

March 19, 2023

The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

Last German honored as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem dies

Gertrud Steinl passed away March 22 on the eve of her 98th birthday.

March 24, 2020

Tuvia Ruebner in 2012. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli poet Tuvia Ruebner, 95, dies at kibbutz home

His 17th book was published this year, the third in the past two years.

July 29, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2011. Credit: EPA/Hannibal Hanschke.

German company whose products were used in rockets stops sales to Iran

Rainer Westermann, a spokesman for the Krempel Group, said that as of several months ago, the company “no longer delivers goods to Iran.”

December 30, 2018

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

France and Germany, have you no shame?

The two nations have apparently linked forces to salvage an effort to create back-channel payments to Iran, defying the U.S.-led effort to sanction the regime for its nuclear activity.

November 28, 2018