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Elisha Wiesel: Risk Power to Protect Jews
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. A Star of David pendant. Illustrative photograph. Photo: DAVIDSON L U N A/Unsplash. I asked Elisha Wiesel what political leaders should be prepared to sacrifice to protect Jewish life.
Ron Prosor at Track 17: Remembrance Is Not Enough
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor speaks with students who attended a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the first mass deportation of Berlin’s Jews, at the Track 17 memorial at Grunewald railway station in Berlin on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
Berlin Marks Third Anniversary of Oct. 7 Attack
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Can Jews Live Freely in Berlin?
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Berlin Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, left, speaks with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal at an event in Berlin, Germany, before the September 20, 2026 state election.
Germany Berlin Heads To The Polls In State And District Elections
Pie de Foto: September 20, 2026, Berlin, Berlin, Germany: Voting booths and election workers are seen inside polling stations in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin on Sunday, September 20, 2026, as voting gets underway across the German capital. Voters in Berlin are casting ballots for the 20th Berlin House of Representatives and for district assemblies across the city.
Cuando la inseguridad vota
Hay resultados electorales que se explican mirando la campaña y otros que obligan a mirar mucho más atrás. El obtenido por Alternativa para Alemania (AfD) en las recientes elecciones de Sajonia-Anhalt pertenece a los segundos. Naturalmente, habrá que hablar de inmigración, del rechazo al Gobierno federal, de las peculiaridades de Alemania oriental o de la guerra de Ucrania.
Sajonia-Anhalt, el territorio que AfD quiere convertir en el “laboratorio” de su plan de deportaciones masivas para Alemania
Habían pasado apenas unas horas desde que el recuento electoral confirmara la victoria de Alternativa para Alemania (AfD) en Sajonia-Anhalt, cuando las redes sociales del Institute for Remigration publicaron un video en el que un hombre de origen paquistaní aseguraba que, de ganar la extrema derecha, dejaría Magdeburg, la capital, para irse a otro territorio alemán. “Llamamos a esto 'remigración federal'”, aseguraba el tuit.
Sajonia-Anhalt, el territorio que AfD quiere convertir en el “laboratorio” de su plan de deportaciones masivas para Alemania
Habían pasado apenas unas horas desde que el recuento electoral confirmara la victoria de Alternativa para Alemania (AfD) en Sajonia-Anhalt, cuando las redes sociales del Institute for Remigration publicaron un vídeo en el que un hombre de origen pakistaní aseguraba que, de ganar la extrema derecha, dejaría Magdeburg, la capital, para irse a otro territorio alemán. “Llamamos a esto 'remigración federal'”, aseguraba el tuit.
Video | Hunderttausende feiern den CSD in Berlin
Beim Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Berlin sind Hunderttausende unter dem Motto âHaltung ist hot" auf die StraÃe gegangen. Queere Communities feierten mit bunten Fahnen, diversen Outfits und lauter Musik. Wegen des groÃen Andrangs mussten zeitweise mehrere UâBahnhöfe entlang der Route geschlossen werden. Video: rbb|24, 25.06.2026, Material: rbb24 Abendschau/ Anna Severinenko
Tour de France Grand Départ 2029 in Berlin - Großes Ziel, hohe Hürden
Audio Tour de France Grand Départ 2029 in Berlin - Großes Ziel, hohe Hürden Stand: 06.07.2026 • 12:00 Uhr Berlin bewirbt sich für den Grand Départ der Tour de France 2029. Die Bewerbung wird allerdings auch kritisch betrachtet.
Leaders react after Berlin rabbi attack
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Leaders react after Berlin rabbi attack
After Rabbi Aviezer Kantor was allegedly followed, spat at and struck while walking home in Berlin with his 5-year-old son and a 14-year-old yeshiva guest, Jewish leaders and officials warned that visibly Jewish life is facing a heightened risk in everyday public life.
Berlin rabbi attacked in front of children
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Berlin rabbi attacked in front of children
Rabbi Aviezer Kantor says his glasses fell to the ground after he was struck in the face during an alleged antisemitic attack while walking home in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Kantor was nearing home with his 5-year-old son and a 14-year-old yeshiva guest when, he says, a man began shouting at him. What started as verbal abuse became an alleged antisemitic attack that continued as Kantor and the children tried to get home.
Why Extremes Unite Against The Jewish State
A symbol of resilience: Israel remains a focal point of intense global debate, standing as a permanent rebuke to ideologies that seek to marginalize Jewish self-determination. (Photo: Michael Kuenne) This phenomenon, increasingly analyzed as the convergent hostility toward Israel, has transformed the Jewish state into a magnet for ancient conspiratorial fantasies and modern political grievances alike.
Why Extremes Unite Against The Jewish State
What anyone can see every day is this: a hostility so pervasive and structurally aligned that it defies the traditional categories of our political geography. We are no longer merely witnessing........
A Kill List in Berlin. Iran’s Ambassador Remains.
A man allegedly walked through Berlin last spring, systematically scouting a kosher supermarket and a Jewish food merchant. He was allegedly mapping access to Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and helping procure a weapon to execute Volker Beck, a prominent German politician. German federal prosecutors have now charged 54-year-old Danish citizen Ali S. and Afghan national Tawab M. with preparing murders and arson attacks on German soil.
A Kill List in Berlin. Iran’s Ambassador Remains. - Michael Kuenne
A man allegedly walked through Berlin last spring, systematically scouting a kosher supermarket and a Jewish food merchant. He was allegedly mapping access to Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and helping procure a weapon to execute Volker Beck, a prominent German politician. German federal prosecutors have now charged 54-year-old Danish citizen Ali S. and Afghan national Tawab M. with preparing murders and arson attacks on German soil.
What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like
Photo Credits: X Account, Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor In Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s richest and most self-consciously progressive neighborhoods, someone walked through the night and spray-painted “Kill All Jews” on the wall of a residential building. People live behind those walls. Children pass that corner. Families come home there after work, after school, after ordinary days in a city that tells itself it has learned from history. Then it happened again.
Buchenwald Is Not a Stage for Protest
Photo: Lubomir Rosenstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Tens of thousands were imprisoned, starved, beaten, and reduced to numbers by a system designed to erase them. Jews, Sinti and Roma, political prisoners, and others deemed expendable were stripped of identity and, in many cases, their remains reduced to ash. Today, the site is not simply historical ground. It is a mass grave, a place of mourning, and a space for sober reflection on what happens when human beings are stripped of dignity.
Buchenwald Is Not a Stage for Protest - Michael Kuenne
There are places where even silence carries weight. Buchenwald is one of them.
70 Jahre BND: Wie sich der Bundesnachrichtendienst verändern muss
Podcast 70 Jahre BND: Wie sich der Bundesnachrichtendienst verändern muss Stand: 31.03.2026 • 06:00 Uhr
When anti-Zionism comes for Jews in Germany
At a state party congress in March, the Lower Saxony branch of Germany’s Left Party, Die Linke, passed a resolution rejecting what it called the Zionism of today. That wording matters because it was not aimed at some long-dead intellectual tendency, nor at one cabinet, one minister, one battlefield decision, or one disputed legal doctrine.
When anti-Zionism comes for Jews in Germany
Jews know this language, even when it arrives in newer clothes. A German political party may call it opposition to “today’s Zionism.” Jews hear something more familiar: another attempt to turn Jewish self-determination into a moral offense.
The Blogs: The Dictator is Dead. Why is the Left Crying?
Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, and the Middle East may finally have a chance at a safer future. But instead of acknowledging a massive victory for human rights, armchair diplomats are rushing to defend the regime. The Middle East just went through a seismic shift; they did the unthinkable, they took out Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The head of the snake has finally been cut off.
The Dictator is Dead. Why is the Left Crying? - Michael Kuenne
Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, and the Middle East may finally have a chance at a safer future. But instead of acknowledging a massive victory for human rights, armchair diplomats are rushing to defend the regime. For the Iranian people, the guy who built that nightmare is finally gone. They are having a collective meltdown. When America and Israel stand shoulder-to-shoulder, the world is a measurably safer place. Period. © The Times of Israel (Blogs) visit website
The Blogs: Germany’s Cultural Elite Is Playing With Fire
Abdallah Alkhatib, director of Chronicles From the Siege, accepts the GWFF Prize for Best First Feature at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, in 2026. Photo: Richard Hübner, Berlinale 2026 When Syrian-Palestinian filmmaker Abdallah Alkhatib accepted the Best Feature Film Debut award Saturday night at the 76th Berlinale for Chronicles From the Siege, he used the ceremony to accuse Israel of genocide and Germany of complicity.
Germany’s Cultural Elite Is Playing With Fire
‘Truly Naked’ Team Puts Real Intimacy Above Fake Pleasure: ‘Porn Is Like WWE. It’s the Fantasy That Pays the Bills’ Berlinale hit “Truly Naked” bets on intimacy, not porn. “Porn is very much like WWE. It’s the fantasy that pays the bills. They get in the ring, fight …
Germany’s Cultural Elite Is Playing With Fire - Michael Kuenne
Words matter most when spoken from positions of power. At the Berlinale, one of Europe’s most prestigious, taxpayer-funded cultural stages, an accusation of genocide was delivered calmly, and rewarded with applause. What followed was not merely a controversial moment, but a revealing failure of moral and institutional judgment. © The Times of Israel (Blogs)
The Blogs: A free Iran would welcome Israel’s prime minister
Reza Pahlavi. Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia) In written responses to my questions, Pahlavi did not offer the West a plea. He offered a proposition. Asked whether he would host Israel’s prime minister in Tehran during a transitional period following the fall of the Islamic Republic, Pahlavi replied without hesitation: “Of course.” He did not hedge or frame the idea as symbolic.
Berliner Kammergericht hebt Freispruch für Palästina-Parole auf
Fall wird neu verhandelt Audio: rbb|24 | 20.01.2026 | Roberto Jurkschat | Michael Kuenne/dpa Das Berliner Kammergericht hat einen Freispruch des Amtsgerichts Tiergarten wegen des Verwendens der pro-palästinensischen Parole "From the river to the sea" aufgehoben und an das Amtsgericht Tiergarten zurückverwiesen. Jetzt muss eine andere Abteilung am Amtsgericht Tiergarten den Fall erneut verhandeln. Das Amtsgericht Tiergarten hatte am 9.
Berlin: Berliner Kammergericht hebt Freispruch für Palästina-Parole auf
Stand: 20.01.2026 21:04 Uhr Das Berliner Kammergericht hat einen Freispruch des Amtsgerichts Tiergarten wegen des Verwendens der pro-palästinensischen Parole "From the river to the sea" aufgehoben und an das Amtsgericht Tiergarten zurückverwiesen. Jetzt muss eine andere Abteilung am Amtsgericht Tiergarten den Fall erneut verhandeln. Das Amtsgericht Tiergarten hatte am 9.
The Blogs: A Song Praising Hitler Played in a Miami Nightclub
The song has been covered extensively since its release and is illegal to distribute in Germany under laws banning Nazi propaganda. Major streaming platforms removed it. Jewish outlets reported on it immediately. There is little ambiguity about what the title means, what the lyrics say, or where the audio sample comes from. Footage from the club shows several well-known online figures, including Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Nick Fuentes, Sneako, Myron Gaines, and Clavicular. Their presence matters.
The Blogs: When protecting Jews in Germany becomes dangerous
When I spoke with Andreas Büttner, the antisemitism commissioner for Brandenburg, a German state, the official tasked with combating antisemitism and safeguarding Jewish life, he was still processing the fact that someone had set fire to an outbuilding on his residential property while his family slept inside. The attackers left a red Hamas triangle behind. For Jewish readers, that detail stands on its own. Büttner had already been targeted months earlier.
The Blogs: What Iran's protests are really about
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. What is unfolding in Iran is not only a protest about the economy. The currency collapse is the spark; the anger is about legitimacy. It is a revolt revealed by the economy.
Michael Kuenne, at The Blogs
Load more Michael Kuenne works as a journalist on antisemitism, extremism, and rising threats to Jewish life. His reporting continually sheds light on the dangers that come from within radical ideologies and institutional complicity, and where Western democracies have failed in confronting the new rise of Jew-hatred with the due urgency it does call for.
The Blogs: Defending Jewish life in Germany made Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani a target
On a Friday morning, nothing about the subway platform suggested danger. People were late. A train was approaching. The familiar choreography of a European city moved forward without pause, footsteps, screens, the quiet impatience of commuters waiting for metal doors to open. Hudhaifa Al-Mashhadani was standing on the platform at the Rathaus Neukölln subway station in Berlin, waiting for the train. According to his account, the attack came without warning. He never saw the man.
The Blogs: Antisemitism Thrives Where Governments Look Away
There is a point where expressing sadness is no longer compassionate. It becomes offensive. We have reached that moment. Whenever Jews are attacked in the Western world, governments respond with the same routine words. They condemn the attacks, express concern, promise to stay alert, and tell Jewish communities they are “not alone.” What we see now is not a sudden increase in antisemitism. It is the result of years of political denial, looking the other way, and fear of setting clear boundaries.
The Blogs: Germany Is Forgetting What 'Never Again' Means
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. A concerning change is occurring in Germany, subtle enough to be overlooked by those who aren’t paying attention, but clear to anyone observing closely.
The Blogs: New York's Earthquake: A Wake-Up Call for Jews
Did you feel the shockwaves? They can be felt far beyond New York City. For many Jews, Zohran Mamdani’s win is not just a local political upset; it’s a frightening signal that open anti-Zionism and even antisemitism can now win mainstream power. The implications reach far beyond city limits. When the city with the world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel elects a man who has made a career out of vilifying the Jewish state, something more profound than politics has shifted.
The Blogs: Holocaust distortion disguised as activism
There are moments when you stumble upon an image on social media that shakes you to your core, not because of its artistry, not because of its daring, but because of its brazenness. This week, I came across such an image: the outline of Gaza, tattooed on an arm, with the number 135633 carved inside. To the casual observer, it may look like another piece of activist ink. But anyone who knows Jewish history recognizes the number instantly.
In 02:02:15 Stunden: Kenianer Sawe gewinnt 51. Berlin-Marathon - Strecken- und Weltrekord verpasst
Stand: 21.09.2025 11:19 Uhr Der Kenianer Sabastian Sawe hat die 51. Auflage des Berlin-Marathons gewonnen. Bei warmen Temperaturen legte er schnell los, schüttelte die Konkurrenz früh ab, verpasste am Ende aber knapp Strecken- und Weltrekord. Sabastian Sawe aus Kenia hat mit weitem Vorsprung den Berlin-Marathon gewonnen. Bei der 51. Ausgabe des Laufes in der Haupstadt siegte der 29-Jährige am Sonntag in einer Zeit von 02:02:15 Stunden. Damit verpasste Sawe den angepeilten Strecken- und Weltrekord.
The Blogs: Hamas Must Be Destroyed, No Other Option
Israel’s fight is the free world’s fight. If Hamas survives, every extremist learns the same lesson: terror works. Massacres work. Hiding behind civilians works. The free world cannot afford that lesson. And yet still, the West hesitates. It hesitates in its capitals, in its parliaments, in its streets. It hesitates with empty words about “balance” and “restraint.” It hesitates with condemnations of Israel that never once mention Hamas by name.
The Blogs: Demonizing Israel: The Moral Inversion of Our Age
A man once asked me: How are we feeling today? It sounds like a simple question, even a gesture of kindness, but how does one answer honestly when each sunrise delivers another heavy headline, another distortion, another carefully crafted lie? How can one speak about “feeling” when the atmosphere itself is saturated with hostility toward Israel, and by extension, toward Jews everywhere?
The Blogs: The Hostages Are the Story
Just shy of 700 days. Not a statistic, a sentence. Every morning adds a weight the evening can’t lift: another day with no proof of life, another day the mind rehearses the worst, another day families pour out more tears, absorb more frustration, and learn to carry a new anger without letting it corrode love. Parents, partners, and children who wait by the door have earned something simple and undiluted from the rest of us: unconditional solidarity. These tunnels did not appear overnight.
The Blogs: Europe's Universities: Diversity for All but Jews
What should be sanctuaries of learning have instead turned into arenas of intimidation, where antisemitism hides behind the mask of “activism” and freedom of expression is twisted into a license for hate. There was a time when Europe’s universities were celebrated as temples of reason, cathedrals of open thought, of debate, of dissent without fear. Today, in too many of those very halls, reason is being desecrated.
The Blogs: Europe’s Universities: Diversity for All but Jews
4 Army soldiers charged in connection with on-base sexual assault of college student who's now an officer The incident at the center of the charges took place in October at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, an Army official said. Legal proceedings for four Army soldiers charged in connection with the sexual assault of a college student in an Army barracks began this month, a spokesperson for the …
The Blogs: A Hateful New Normal for Europe’s Jews
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists committed the deadliest one-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, murdering 1,200 Israelis in cold blood. One would expect such barbarity to have united the civilized world in grief and moral clarity.
The Blogs: The Courage to Arm a Democracy
On August 8, 2025, Berlin announced a partial suspension of arms exports “that could be used in Gaza.” Call it what you want; in practice, it’s withholding. To Hamas and Hezbollah, it will be portrayed as wavering. And to Jewish communities across Europe, it sounds like something colder: forget. What does it mean to say Never Again and then tell the world’s only Jewish state to fight genocidal terror with one hand tied?
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