The Society emerged from the German-Israeli Study Groups (DIS), which had existed since 1957 at the Freie Universität and the Kirchliche Hochschule in West Berlin and at eight universities in the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the summer of 1963, together with like-minded people, he began to convince various members of the Bundestag in Bonn of the need to establish diplomatic relations with the State of Israel.

[2] DIG officers and Anti-Germans (a pro-Israel leftist current in Germany) have produced many of the anti-antisemitism commissioners hired by German institutions after the 2015 European migrant crisis .

[5] Some local branches of the DIG criticized the controversial exhibition “Nakba – Flight and Expulsion of the Palestinians 1948”, which was shown in around a hundred cities.

[7] The local DIG chairman Hermann Kuhn told Taz about the exhibition in Bremen that the unilateral assignment of blame made by her "is not conducive to the idea of a peaceful coexistence".