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GERMANY voted to define the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-semitic yesterday, becoming the only European nation to do so.
The German parliament accepted the motion titled “Resist the BDS Movement” which stated that “the German Bundestag is unwavering in its commitment to condemn and combat anti-semitism in all its forms.”
The Bundestag stressed it will oppose “anyone who defames people because of their Jewish identity, questions the right of the Jewish and democratic state of Israel to exist or Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
In part two of May’s Berlin Bulletin, VICTOR GROSSMAN, having assessed the policies of the new government, looks at how the opposition is faring