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TEL AVIV – The University of Michigan has disciplined a professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation to a student planning to study in Israel due to his support for the boycott movement against the Jewish state.

An 8-year-old Palestinian boy threw a knife at an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Route 443 in the West Bank before fleeing the scene on Thursday afternoon. No injuries were reported and the IDF troops searched the area to locate the child.

NEW YORK — Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York Senator running for reelection, has advanced troubling views, legislative decisions and associations that evidence alarming ideology when it comes to support for America’s only Democratic ally in the Middle East, the state of Israel.

TEL AVIV – The daughter of the Israeli consul-general in New York, who is a student at Columbia University, says she does not feel safe on campus amid threats from pro-Palestinian students.

The decision by the Labour Party to call for an end to arms sales to Israel on Wednesday has been challenged by leading UK Jewish groups.

An organization that has a close relationship with Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum organized a flash mob in Israel to officially endorse the extremist Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the Jewish state.

Jeremy Corbyn demanded a boycott of Arsenal FC after an Israeli tourism sponsorship deal was made public.

Posters calling Israel a “racist endeavour” have sprung up at bus stops across the capital, with the claim widely perceived as anti-Semitic, infuriating some Londoners.

JERUSALEM – The Israeli army said Wednesday it was closing its sole crossing for people with the Gaza Strip following a riot there, just 10 days after it reopened it.

A top Israeli politician reached out to Lana Del Rey on Monday, three days after the American singer and songwriter announced she was postponing an upcoming performance in the Jewish state after she faced intense pressure from the BDS movement.

TEL AVIV – American singer Lana Del Rey’s last minute cancellation of a gig in Israel has been slammed by festival organizers as being a cheap public relations stunt.

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.

Lana Del Rey will go ahead with a planned concert in Israel next month, telling critics the show is “not a political statement.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over the weekend urged Palestinians to “keep the ground aflame with popular resistance” against Israel.

TEL AVIV – The Shin Bet security agency on Wednesday flatly denied a claim made by American-Iranian author and former CNN host Reza Aslan, who said he was detained and threatened by security agents at a border crossing and told he might not see his children for a long time.

Wrapping up a four-hour meeting on Gaza, Israel’s high-level security cabinet on Thursday instructed the military to “continue acting forcefully” against terror groups in the Strip, amid an intense flare-up in violence over the last day that saw the worst exchange of fire since the 2014 war.

WASHINGTON — The United States condemned the Hamas terror group on Thursday for launching some 180 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli population centers and defended Israel’s military response in the worst exchange of fire since the 2014 war.

TEL AVIV – The European Union has agreed to immediately stop funding an Israeli coalition of left-wing groups that “defame and delegitimize” Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.

Kuwait Airways has payed substantial damages plus costs to an Israeli woman after refusing to sell her a flight ticket due to her nationality.

TEL AVIV – New Jersey senator Cory Booker, a possible contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, was photographed on Friday appearing to endorse a pro-Palestinian movement by holding a sign calling for the removal of the security fence in Israel.

TEL AVIV – A Saudi student who won an international chemistry tournament and refused to stand next to an Israeli representative has become a trending topic on Arabic social media. 

Self-proclaimed Palestinian “protest icon” Ahed Tamimi vowed to continue fighting the Israeli military in her first public appearance since being released from prison Sunday morning.

NEW YORK — Legendary comic Jackie Mason panned Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “ignorant” over her anti-Israel comments and “to the left” of Russian President Vladimir Putin because of her domestic platform.

TEL AVIV – The deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) boasted recently that the “Islamic army in Syria” was awaiting orders to “eradicate the evil regime” of Israel and Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah has 100,000 missiles aimed at the Jewish state.

Labour MP Naz Shah has been made a shadow equalities minister two years after admitting her “ignorance” about discrimination against Jews during a row over anti-Semitism in the party.

LONDON — The Irish Senate has voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban the import of West Bank settlement products — a measure that still must pass several hurdles before becoming law.

The Labor Party sent a sternly worded letter to the Socialist International organization Tuesday after it adopted a resolution joining the Boycott Divest and Sanction Israel campaign, saying that the party would immediately leave the organization.

The British government will lead an investigation into the Palestinian education system amid claims that its school textbooks promote jihad, anti-Semitism, radical Islam, and the Islamisation of Europe.

JERUSALEM — Sarah Idan, Iraq’s 2017 Miss Universe beauty pageant contestant, is visiting Israel this week, a trip that has enraged people back home.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Culture Minister Miri Regev on Thursday declared that if Israel can’t host the Eurovision song contest in Jerusalem next year, it should not host it at all. 

The Israeli military is preparing for massive riots along the Gaza security fence on Friday afternoon, potentially on par with violent clashes that took place on May 14, in which tens of thousands of people participated and some 60 Palestinians were killed, a senior army officer said Thursday.

TEL AVIV – A University of California student workers’ union demanded as part of a renewed contract that UC administrators divest from companies that profit from “the oppression of Palestinians.”

TEL AVIV – Israeli sports minister said the cancellation of the Argentina’s decision to cancel its friendly game with Israel scheduled for Saturday amid pressure from pro-Palestinian groups was “terror, not BDS.”

JERUSALEM — The sports-crazed nation of Israel was in uproar Wednesday over Argentina’s abrupt cancellation of a World Cup warmup match following pro-Palestinian protests, with some of the country’s leaders accusing Lionel Messi and his teammates of caving to terrorism.

TEL AVIV – Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory accused Israel of committing a “human rights crime” when the state was established by “killing, stealing” and “taking the lives of people who were there first.” 

TEL AVIV – Whatever will they come up with next? Gazan rioters have added a creative new weapon to their arsenal. Instead of attack kites, young Palestinians have adopted another child’s toy to spread fires on Israeli soil: helium balloons.