Earlier this year, the Israeli government sent an official letter to the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel demanding Germany cut its funding of the Jewish Museum in Berlin over an ongoing exhibition, Welcome to Jerusalem, which is said to probe Jerusalem’s “extraordinary political tensions, claimed as the capital city by both Israelis and Palestinians.”

The seven-page letter, which was published on Thursday, December 6, by the left-leaning German Die Tageszeitung newspaper (TAZ), lists 12 NGOs and culture organizations that Israel demands Germany fiscally divest from, including the Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale), Women Wage Peace, Action Medeor, the Catholic Relief Services, and the Israeli opinion and news website +972 Magazine, which receives funding from the Heinrich Böll Foundation (an independent political foundation associated with the German Green Party). The letter urges Germany to “review its funding guidelines” for organizations that are involved in “anti-Israeli propaganda” or endorse the BDS movement (the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement).

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