The mass-circulation daily Bild tabloid is considered a pro-Israel publication that goes to great lengths to combat pervasive antisemitism in Germany. According to a federal government study from 2017, 40% of Germans maintain modern antisemitic views – a loathing of the Jewish state. German neo-Nazi parties – The Third Way and the National Democratic Party – support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy is the leading financial institution for BDS accounts.“We condemn the leaders of any bank that continues to allow the BFS [Bank for Social Economy] to do business with those who work to damage and ultimately do away with the Jewish state,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of The Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.The center may, at the end of 2018, include the bank’s top three executives – Harald Schmitz, Oliver Luckner and Thomas Kahleis – on its list of the top ten worst outbreaks of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment for the year.Bilder, die weh tun. In jeglicher Hinsicht. Neonazis in diesen Minuten in Dortmund. pic.twitter.com/0Ao2LtchGK
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