Republican senators, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, are threatening to delay President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees over policies prohibiting U.S. scientific research aid to certain Israeli-held territories in what the lawmakers refer to as an “antisemitic boycott of Israel.”
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told the head of Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s, the latter’s decision to end sales in what it termed the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” is an “anti-Israel” move that would be fought “vigorously.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed far-left Democrats and Hamas on the Senate floor Monday, while praising Israel for its “precise and defensive response.”
Israeli, Jewish and pro-Israel groups all applauded the publication of an ‘unprecedented’ United Nations report on anti-Semitism, that, among other issues, links anti-Semitism to criticism of Israel and the BDS movement.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke to the press alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Monday afternoon amid the fallout with Israel and said her grandmother discouraged her from visiting after Israel granted her permission to come into the country.
TEL AVIV — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has come under fire for posing for a photo with an anti-Israel extremist and staunch supporter of the Hezbollah terror group at a swearing-in ceremony over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – A song called “Delete Airbnb” composed by a Jerusalem-based band in protest over the vacation rental giant’s decision to delist Israeli-owned properties in the West Bank went viral before being removed by Facebook without an explanation, the band has claimed.
TEL AVIV – An American student, the granddaughter of Palestinians who was the head of the anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine, is appealing an Israeli court for being refused entry into Israel over her alleged activities in the boycott movement against the Jewish state.
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.”
Irish TV host Mike Murphy and former Eurovision winner Charlie McGettigan have joined politicians in calling for Ireland to boycott next year’s song contest in Israel.
A group of protesters — including several Jews and Israel supporters — stood outside Oakland, California-based Reem’s Arab Street Corner Bakery on Sunday to demand that a mural honoring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh be removed from its wall. “In
A leading Jewish organisation slammed Amnesty International UK’s cancellation of a debate about human rights in Israel as “disgraceful”, saying the shutdown defeated Amnesty’s own claims of unbridled advocacy for freedom of speech.
Israeli Minister of Culture, Science and Sports Miri Regev issued a call on Sunday asking New Zealand pop starlet Lorde to reconsider her decision to cancel her show in Israel.
BRUSSELS —In an unprecedented initiative, 60 members of the European Parliament called on EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini to stop EU funding and isolate the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott,Divestment and Sanctions) movement.
TEL AVIV – Israel on Monday announced that it will bar the entry of a delegation of European officials due to their efforts in promoting boycotts of the Jewish state.
Next month, the UN General Assembly is expected to affirm east Jerusalem’s status as “occupied territory,” call for international companies to boycott Israel and condemn Israel’s presence on the Golan Heights.
Lawmakers in Ohio are working to pass legislation expressing support of Israel and denouncing attacks against its supporters, especially on university campuses.
TEL AVIV – Radiohead kept it classy on a muggy Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, with the only reference to the vociferous BDS campaign being waged against them playing in the Jewish state coming from frontman Thom Yorke who muttered: “A lot of stuff was said about this, and in the end we played some music.”
TEL AVIV – Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke defended his band’s decision to play in Israel following harsh criticism from British filmmaker Ken Loach.
TEL AVIV – Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on Friday flipped his middle finger at a group of pro-Palestinian protesters at a gig in Glasgow, Scotland who were calling for the band to cancel its upcoming gig in Tel Aviv.
TEL AVIV – Megastar Mariah Carey gushed that she’s in a “love affair” with Israel during a visit to the country to debut her new Dead Sea-based beauty line.
TEL AVIV – A leading U.S.-based Jewish group attempted to give former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters a taste of his own medicine by slamming the owners of major stadiums for giving the Israel-boycotting musician a platform and urging them to boycott his current tour.
Ethiopian-born former Miss Israel beauty pageant winner Yityish “Titi” Aynaw and actress Ariel Mortman, star of the popular youth TV series “The Greenhouse,” have been selected to lead an Israeli government campaign aimed at fighting the BDS movement.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The leader of the main Norwegian opposition group is opposing a boycott of Israel decided by the Norway’s largest trade union confederation, a traditional ally. Jonas Gahr Store, who leads the left-leaning Labor Party, says the
TEL AVIV – French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron on Sunday slammed the boycott movement against Israel as anti-Semitic and said that recognizing a Palestinian state at this stage would serve no purpose.
Members of Tufts University’s Jewish community told The Algemeiner on Monday they were “hurt and angry,” after the school’s student senate passed a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) resolution in a landslide vote on Sunday night, just ahead of Passover.
In a showcase of cutting-edge Israeli innovation at a Sunday session of the AIPAC Policy Conference, renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz assisted in the unveiling of a machine that extracts and purifies water from air.
TEL AVIV – The co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar Barghouti, was arrested Monday for tax evasion to the tune of some $700,000 in income.
