A University in Germany has decided to stop a seminar about young Palestinians after the course faced accusations of including anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli content and presenting a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the city of Hildesheim has for 10 years offered a seminar titled "On the Social Situation of Young People in Palestine" whose material included false accusations that Israel harvested organs from Palestinians and called Israel an apartheid state.

Germany's Central Council of Jews and others, including an MP from Germany's Green Party, Volker Beck, also joined the campaign against the biased seminar.

The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told the weekly German Jewish paper Jüdische Allgemeine that he welcomed the cancellation of the seminar.

“It is regrettable that one-sided and tendentious course material—and not only a false view of the state of Israel—but that prejudices were nurtured” and conveyed to the students.

Beck asked how it was possible that a one-sided and non-scientific anti-Israel course could be taught for roughly ten years?

Emmanuel Nahshon, the spokesman at Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told the Jerusalem Post that the seminar “ is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew-hatred. This is not a university, it is a hatred factory. One would think that in Germany of all places people would understand the pernicious nature of hatred and racism under a pseudo academic guise.”

The university has said the criticism centered on material heavily critical of Israel which "only serves as reading materials and are used to train students in critical discourse," but did not reflect its political views.

The university said that it was redesigning how it taught the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the context of social work for the coming academic year.

"There is no place for anti-Semitism at our university," said University President Christiane Dienel.