Nicholas Potter

Nicholas Potter is a visiting Ernst Cramer and Teddy Kollek Fellow of the International Journalist Program at The Jerusalem Post from December 2024 until January 2025, and editor at the German newspaper TAZ/Die Tageszeitung in Berlin. He reports on political extremism, conflicts, antisemitism, and media. He has a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London and a master’s from the Humboldt University in Berlin.


 NOA LEA COHN: My aim is to provide a kind of art education for the community here.

Art Shelter Gallery: When art and religion intersect

 HANS-GEORG MAASSEN, founder and president of Germany’s Values Union. The party will be on the ballot in some federal states for the first time as Germany goes to the polls on February 23. Here, Maassen speaks during a panel discussion at The National Conservatism Conference in April in Brussels

From spymaster to extremist: Hans-Georg Maassen’s radical transformation

 Wadi Attir, an innovative project that aims to promote sustainable agriculture among Israel’s Bedouin community in the Negev, January 28,2025.

At Wadi Attir, Bedouin mix agricultural tradition with hi-tech innovation


Traveling from Israel's Galilee to the Golan after 15 months of war

It has been a tough 15 months for tourism in the North, as international visitor numbers remain just a fraction of what they were before October 7.

 THE SIWAR Boutique Suites is nestled in the beauty of Acre.

Jewish, Israeli musicians fear for their careers post-Oct. 7

A year after the Nova massacre, the global electronic music scene oscillates between silence and celebration

 ‘I’VE BEEN called Zionist as a slur.’ Maayan Nidam, an Israeli artist who has lived in Berlin since 2003, told the ‘Post’ that anti-Zionist comments and statements have left her feeling increasingly excluded from the music community.

Hope, anxiety and anger among Jerusalem residents following ceasefire announcement

At Jerusalem’s Chords Bridge, the mood was defiant. Critics of the deal repeatedly blocked the busy intersection in protest, while the police half-heartedly tried to clear it.

 Hostage families hold a protest adjacent to the Knesset, January 16, 2025

Meet the pro-Russia, anti-Israel populist that wants to remake German politics

Will Wagenknecht succeed in remaking Germany’s political landscape?

 Germany's BSW party holds a party congress in Bonn

German AfD politicians meet militant neo-Nazis in Switzerland

An event near Zurich in mid-December at which two AfD politicians spoke was organized by the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat and attended by members of Blood & Honour.

 Junge Tat

Far-right European parties preach solidarity with Israel while practicing antisemitism - opinion

Anti-migration rhetoric may be the visible tip of the ideological iceberg, but below the surface lurk the same old antisemitic beliefs of the past.

ALICE WEIDEL, co-leader of the Alternative für Deutschland party, speaks in the Bundestag last week, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote, setting the stage for a snap election.

Communities in Israel’s south balance regeneration and preservation a year after Oct. 7

Fourteen months after October 7, Israel's southern communities struggle to balance rebuilding with preserving memories as tourists visit attack sites while residents return home.

 Protesters in Sderot gather for the 'Gaza March,' May 14, 2024

Inside the far-left media that, backed by Moscow, Damascus, and Tehran, attacks Israel

MEDIA AFFAIRS: MintPress News, The Grayzone, and Red are examples of far-left websites that can't be trusted when it comes to the Middle East.

 ‘DISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY theories, and antisemitic narratives.’ Israel has faced media outlets distorting the truth about the region for years.

Far-right activists, AfD politicians slam proposal for new youth wing ahead of German elections

Many are rallying behind an organization that does not just operate as the AfD’s youth wing but also serves as a bridge between the parliamentary far-right and neo-Nazis.

 AfD members sit in voting booths on the day of the European election assembly 2023 of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, Germany, July 29, 2023.

'We are on our own': Israel's northern residents on their hopes and fears after the ceasefire

For 14 months, an end to Israeli military operations in Gaza was Hezbollah’s condition for ceasing its attacks, which have claimed the lives of 45 civilians in Israel’s North.

 KIRYAT SHMONA is still a ghost town. Shops are shuttered and unmanned military vehicles are scattered around Israel’s northernmost city.