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Anti-Israel protests have rocked college campuses across the United States in past weeks and now protester arrest numbers are rising as authorities try to end the disruption.

Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lauding the pro-Palestinian protests across U.S. college campuses, particularly praising the chants “against Israel and America,” while depicting the radical demonstrations sweeping the country as a form of victory for the Islamic regime over the “ruined” Western democracies.

Americans overwhelmingly support Israel in its war against the Hamas terrorist group by a margin of four-to-one despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling streets and campuses across the country, a poll released Tuesday reveals.

Several groups involved in organizing anti-Israel protests that have broken out at college campuses since last week have received money from organizations funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, according to a report.

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emerson College, and Tufts University have set up encampments in solidarity with Columbia University’s “Gaza solidarity encampment.”

University of Southern California (USC) valedictorian Asna Tabassum was asked if she endorses the social media posts she shared calling for the complete abolishment of Israel, to which she replied, “I am not apologetic.”

A major UK cinema chain has been accused of backing out of hosting an Israeli film event with organizers citing “safety concerns.”

UK Foreign Office staff were reportedly told that Israel is a “white, settler colonialist” nation and not to call Hamas ‘terrorists’.

Radical anti-Israel demonstrators hindered the New York Police Department’s response to a reported explosive device found by an Uber driver, according to authorities who were unable to reach the site of the scene in due time as a result.

London’s Tower Bridge was shut down by pro-Palestinian protesters as the conflict in the Middle East takes centre stage in British politics.

Attacks on churches have increased nearly 800 percent in less than six years, indicating that “hostility against U.S. churches is not only on the rise but also accelerating,” a Family Research Council (FRC) report found.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday as some showed support for Hamas terrorists and the jihadist Houthis.

BLM and feminist activists joined forces with pro-Palestinian protesters in a march in London that saw demonstrators clash with police.

Protesters shut down Christmas shopping on Oxford Street in London, blockading stores for supposedly supporting Israel’s war against Hama.

Dutch human rights lawyers went to court in the Netherlands on Monday demanding a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel.

Pro-Palestinian protesters flooded onto the streets of London on Saturday, with some being filmed calling for an “Intifada” against Israel.

Activists protested outside Downing Street over an explosion at a hospital in Gaza, which the legacy media initially blamed on Israel.

Pro-Palestine protesters descended upon the Israeli embassy in London following the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas over the weekend.

Netflix has come under fire for broadcasting a Jordanian movie depicting fictional Israeli soldiers slaughtering a Palestinian family during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, made by filmmakers who have called Israel a “terrorist” state.

A global coalition of more than 25 organizations on Tuesday released a report outlining why a United Nations probe against Israel was “singularly unprecedented, unjust and completely lacking in impartiality or any legal basis,” and called for its chair, anti-Israel Navi Pillay, to recuse herself.

Pro-Palestinian and socialist activists gathered in London over the weekend to condemn what they called the “apartheid state” of Israel.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth announced he will step down this August after 30 years at the helm of the global non-profit organization.

Jerusalem’s deputy mayor hailed the South African Miss Universe hopeful, Lalela Mswane, for her bravery in defying the South African government’s call for her to boycott the annual pageant over its location in Israel.

The West Ham soccer team banned two supporters from attending its matches after a group of the club’s fans were filmed singing an anti-Semitic song as a Jewish man walked on a plane.

The Israeli ambassador to the U.K. was hurried from the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday night pursued by protesters angry at her scheduled appearance at a public forum.

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan ripped up a report by the U.N. Human Rights Council during an address at the U.N. General Assembly, slamming the global rights body for its “obsessive anti-Israel bias.”

The eponymous founders of Ben & Jerry’s were left flummoxed when accused of hypocrisy over the company’s recent decision to stop selling its products in Israel, in what has been dubbed a “car-crash” interview with Axios on HBO.

UTLA President and BLM member Cecily Myart-Cruz dismissed “learning loss” during the school closures, since children learned the words “insurrection” and “coup.”

Anti-Semitic messaging from the Democrat Party in America could spell political doom for the left as it did in the UK for the Labour Party under the leadership of radical socialist Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be imprisoned for “war crimes” against the Palestinian people, far-left Labour MP John McDonnell said on Saturday at a protest in London.

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday, marching from the Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park, where some pro-Palestinian activists were seen burning the Israeli flag.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage declared that “London in 2021 is not a safe place to be” following footage emerging of pro-Palestinian activists attacking a car during a demonstration against Israel on Saturday.

Footage has emerged online of an anti-Israel activist in Britain calling for the “Muslim armies” of the world to wage a “jihad” against the Jewish state.

Central London was mobbed on Saturday by thousands of anti-Israel activists, who marched on the Israel embassy carrying placards comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday approved five anti-Israeli resolutions, but they passed with less votes than in 2019, providing Israel a glimmer of hope at the usually hostile 193-member body.

New legislation against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is being advanced at the Knesset, and would allow Israel to use all means necessary in defending U.S. and Israeli troops from the global tribunal.