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With President Barack Obama’s abstention at the United Nations Security Council on Friday, the Democratic Party is now an anti-Israel party.

The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Friday’s vote at the United Nations Security Council in favor of an anti-Israel resolution, calling it “shameful” and blasting President Barack Obama for ganging up against the Middle East’s one true democracy.

TEL AVIV – In a dramatic departure from the longstanding U.S. policy of vetoing anti-Israel resolutions, the Obama administration on Friday abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli construction in the West

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “I will work to form a bipartisan coalition to suspend or significantly reduce United States assistance to the United Nations.”

The Independent reports: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the organisation has a “disproportionate” volume of resolutions against Israel, which he believes has “foiled the ability of the UN to fulfill its role effectively”.

The radical left-wing group J Street is trying to raise money off President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nomination of David Friedman to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The complaint: Friedman once referred to J Street supporters as “far worse than kapos – Jews who turned in their fellow Jews in the Nazi death camps.” J Street is urgently soliciting donations “to fight [Friedman’s] nomination.”

A bill to bar activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was approved by the Knesset Monday in its first reading.

The director of the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday slammed UNESCO for its resolution on Jerusalem holy sites, comparing the UN cultural body to Islamic State jihadists.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., sent a letter this week to the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization protesting a resolution the U.S. lawmakers say is part of a wider effort to delegitimize Israel.

A teacher in the German state of Lower Saxony who advocates a complete boycott of Israel posed as a Jew in order to sign a petition calling for all Palestinian refugees to be returned to the Jewish state.

Online vacation rental giant Airbnb acted quickly to ban a vendor after it came to light that she was refusing service to Israeli customers.

Iran showed off missiles, warplanes, tanks and marching troops on Wednesday in a display of military strength in the face of growing regional tensions.

The United Nations Department of Public Information held a media seminar in Pretoria, South Africa earlier this month on peace in the Middle East. The stated goal of the three-day seminar was to bring together “politicians, academics and other experts exploring new ways to narrate the complex and evolving story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Border Police troops arrested a Palestinian woman Wednesday in possession of a knife near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, a police spokesperson said.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews emphasized its strong opposition to boycotts, in response to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reiteration of his support for boycotting Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Celtic are facing disciplinary action after fans defied the club by unfurling Palestinian flags when the team took on an Israeli team in the Champions League.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside of a peace festival featuring Jewish and Arab Israeli performers in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday, calling out to those entering the venue, “Your tickets are covered in Palestinian blood.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday with Israel’s newly returned judo delegation to the Olympic Games in Rio, telling bronze medal winners Or Sasson and Yarden Gerbi that they are inspiration to the whole country.

An Israeli man has accused a Chilean border official of defacing his passport with pro-Palestinian words and a rude drawing.

Fourteen years after he planned to poison Israelis in the popular Cafe Rimon in Jerusalem, Sufian Bakri Abdu was released from prison. Abdu headed the terrorist cell which planned to carry out the attack during the Second Intifada.

A Belgian Muslim official in charge of promoting tolerance apologized for his vitriol against Israel, which he said was a modern Nazi Germany and “an identical twin” of the Islamic State terrorist group.

TEL AVIV – The U.S. Green Party has nominated Israel basher Dr. Jill Stein as presidential candidate, who promised that if elected she would end all military aid to the “very oppressive” Israeli government that supports “occupation” and “apartheid.”

A watchdog group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville uncovered what it called a “disturbing trend” of anti-Semitic behavior on campus, with several students’ social media posts denigrating the Jewish faith and praising Adolf Hitler, The Algemeiner reported.

TEL AVIV – There have been “clear incidents of anti-Semitism” at the Oxford University Labour Club, a leaked investigative report revealed, but said the phenomenon did not extend to “institutional anti-Semitism.”

JAFFA, Israel – One week on, Saudi social media is still reeling from former Saudi general Anwar Eshki’s visit to Israel.

Protesters set an Israeli flag on fire and chanted “Long live the intifada” outside of the Democratic National Convention site in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, as others clashed with police.

TEL AVIV – A German university is offering a course that claims Israel’s military harvests organs from Palestinians and the Jewish state is committing genocide, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Labour MP Naz Shah has agreed that comments which saw her suspended from the party in April were anti-Semitic and she apologised for online posts, including one suggesting Israel should be moved to the United States.

Facebook closed Hamas Politburo member and Khaled Meshaal confidante Ezzat al-Rishq’s Facebook account for the seventh time on Tuesday.

An advertisement for a German television documentary which will deal with how children in the Palestinian Authority are taught to hate and kill has caused an uproar for claiming that Israeli children are also taught to hate and kill Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – Orange County District Attorney’s office is investigating a violent protest held by the University of California’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter in May, in which demonstrators shouted profanities at both UC Irvine Police and pro-Israel supporters.

TEL AVIV – Millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to groups promoting anti-Semitic agendas, including justifying terror attacks against Israel and equating Israelis with Nazis, the Washington Free Beacon states, citing a report from a watchdog for non-governmental organizations.

The Republican Jewish Coalition announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new series of web-based advertisements pummeling the Democratic Party for the influence of what it characterized as “progressive anti-Israel Democrats.”

TEL AVIV – More than 150 professors at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, signed an open letter condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – A hardline German BDS group is conducting anti-Israel campaigns from a city-owned and federally-funded property in Bremen, the Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, “an ignoramus when it comes to the Middle East,” has tapped a “professional Israel-hater” for the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee, internationally acclaimed lawyer Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.