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National Students for Justice in Palestine announced on Sunday that it will host its eighth annual conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, drawing concerns from some members of the school’s pro-Israel community.

Democrats’ shift in values from nationalist to post-nationalist, rather than any action Israel has taken in its domestic or foreign policy, is what has caused the rupture in Israel’s ties to the American left.

The Bible mandates and history make clear: Christians should stand with Israel. We evangelicals will do so forever.

Zionism is a Jewish conspiracy meant to manipulate Western societies to benefit Jews, according to a majority of 1,007  respondents to a French poll about Jewish nationalism.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are “much worse” than Hitler, a columnist writing for a Jordanian daily said, and added that some of the crimes attributed to Hitler probably didn’t take place. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Wednesday on the people of Muslim countries to defeat Israel. “With an intense and planned struggle, they should force the enemy to retreat toward the point of demise,” he said.

American Jewish actress Mayim Bialik has told an audience that she is “happy to take a public bullet for this state,” while outlining her experiences of anti-Semitism at the Global Conference on Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem.

An Islamist activist who claimed the 71 victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster “were murdered” by Zionists who fund the Conservative party will not face prosecution for hate speech.

German researcher and historian Günther Jikeli has found that anti-Semitic attitudes are common among asylum seekers as the federal government’s Facebook page was inundated with anti-Semitic messages this week.

The leadership of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour party has been accused of being anti-Semitic by a senior Israeli cabinet minister.

It is no exaggeration to say that for Jews, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is an event of almost Biblical significance. And we are witnesses to it.

The New York Times’ Bret Stephens repeats false accusations of antisemitism against Steve Bannon — and embraces anti-Israel propaganda in the process.

TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) cancelled a scheduled talk by a Palestinian activist at George Washington University (GWU) over claims that the speaker is “anti-Semitic.”

The local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of California Irvine has been sanctioned with disciplinary probation for two academic years for disrupting a pro-Israel event earlier this year.

A Shia Imam in California, who stated during a sermon that “ISIS is the production of the Israeli intelligence” and that Israel “finances, arms and trains” the so-called “Islamic State,” has apologized for his statements.

The Shia imam of a Muslim congregation in California has suggested that the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL, of Daesh) “is the production of the Israeli intelligence.”

An American company, KA Designs, is selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with rainbow-colored swastikas on them, re-branding the emblem of hatred as a “symbol of love and peace.”

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Hungary for “standing up for Israel time and again” during a historic official visit to Budapest.

TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has put himself on the receiving end of anger on Palestinian streets after telling Israel’s Channel 2 that he Western Wall “will remain under Israeli sovereignty. There’s no argument that this is a holy site for Jews.”

NEW YORK, NY — Breitbart Jerusalem Editor-in-Chief Aaron Klein lambasted the unadulterated, anti-Israel bias of the “fake news media” on Sunday, during the Israel Day Concert in Central Park saying, “the time has come for Israel to troll the world with the truth…because the fake news media won’t do that.”

A bare 13 per cent of UK Jewish voters intend to cast their ballot for Labour in next week’s general election, according to the latest polling. In contrast, 77 per cent will vote for Conservative candidates.

Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, has addressed a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressing his “shock and horror” that leftist sharia advocate and alleged terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour was tapped by CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health & Public Policy as their commencement speaker, urging him to cancel her appearance at the taxpayer-funded university.

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has ordered yet another disciplinary hearing for Ken Livingstone in the latest chapter of the party’s long-running anti-Semitism row.

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has been suspended by the Labour Party for one year after a disciplinary hearing found he had brought the party into disrepute over past comments about anti-Semitism, Hitler, and Zionism.

A fictional Turkish television series is causing great concern in the Jewish community there with its storylines depicting Theodor Herzl intending to establish a Jewish state extending from the Euphrates to the Nile and a Jew attempting to assassinate Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who was implicated in a terrorist attack in which two Israelis murdered and was later accused of lying about her security background on her immigration papers to the United States, has accepted a guilty plea deal with federal prosecutors to leave the U.S. while avoiding prison time.

American Jewish actress Mayim Bialik published on Wednesday a refutation of anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour’s recently made claim that one cannot be a Zionist feminist.

Just as a parade of Latin American leaders to Jerusalem created the impression that Israel’s relationship with that region of the world has rarely been better, along comes Ecuador to spoil the party Modi Efraim, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director- general for Latin America, summoned on Sunday the chargé d’affaires at the Ecuadorean Embassy to protest comments Ecuador’s ambassador to the UN made in the General Assembly last week equating Zionism with Nazism.

TEL AVIV – With the allegations of anti-Semitism against Steve Bannon quickly collapsing, the far-left Jewish Forward newspaper has trotted out a creative new smear: Bannon is an anti-Semite who loves the Jewish state.

The United Nations’ top officials joined with Israel’s envoys to the world body for a ceremony commemorating Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday.

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman says he believes Hillary Clinton will “restore some of the credibility to the United States, in the world, that we’ve lost in the last eight years,” under President Barack Obama.

A claim that a traditional Hebrew greeting for Passover was removed from a message by UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn because of the fear it might look “Zionist” has been rejected by the party.

MONTREAL – The federal government has distanced itself from a major international gathering opening Tuesday in Montreal following complaints that its programming included anti-Semitic content.

When Luciana Berger, the Jewish mayoral hopeful for Liverpool, received the following message from John Nimmo on 8 July, “watch your back Jewish scum, regards your friend the Nazi”, followed by a warning that she’d “get it” like murdered MP Jo Cox, it was not quite water off a duck’s back.

Dozens of users on Twitter have attacked Gal Gadot, the new leading actress in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie, for being an Israeli “Zionist.”

TEL AVIV – Jews in France are feeling increasingly insecure and uncomfortable despite the French government’s efforts to protect them, according to Natan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel.