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TEL AVIV – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday opposing boycotts of Israel after some Democrats expressed concern last week that the measure could cause infighting within the party leading up to the 2020 election.

New York City mayor and longshot presidential candidate Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday denied the left’s role in the rise of antisemitism, claiming that form of bigotry is strictly a “right-wing movement.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on the president of Williams College to grant club status to a student group that was denied recognition by the school’s student government last month due to having pro-Israel viewpoints.

Williams College President Maud S. Mandel condemned the college’s student government for refusing to recognize a pro-Israel student group.

Students at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, are demanding that the school’s president, Melvin Oliver, step down over his decision to keep the college’s study abroad program in Israel. Members of Pitzer’s student government introduced a “no confidence” resolution on Sunday, calling on Oliver’s “immediate resignation or removal from office.”

TEL AVIV – Student leaders at Columbia University on Sunday rejected a motion in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel in a secret ballot. 

TEL AVIV — Amnesty International, a British-based NGO that has received financing from billionaire activist George Soros, has advocated the boycott of tourism in West Bank Israeli communities as well as eastern Jerusalem.

CNN’s John Berman interviewed Minnesota Representative-elect Ilhan Omar Tuesday, touching on a number of topics, but not once asking about her past anti-Israel rhetoric. Ilhan Omar was lobbed softball questions by CNN’s Berman about a possible government shutdown, impeaching President Trump,

The European Union has done nothing to support the continued existence of Israel, Italy Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday in Jerusalem, adding that the Jewish state can rely on the backing of Rome.

New York University’s student government voted in favor of a resolution demanding that the university divests from three companies that do business with Israel. The students accused NYU of giving their tuition payments to companies involved in “murdering brown people across the globe.” 

TEL AVIV – A group of American Jews have sued Airbnb in a U.S. Federal Court on Wednesday over charges that the vacation rental giant’s new policy of barring Israeli apartments in the West Bank constitutes religious discrimination.

The faculty of Pitzer College in California has voted to suspend its study abroad program in Israel after members of the faculty joined students in protesting its existence. The College has claimed to Breitbart News that the program remains in place “while the topic is undergoing a college-wide shared governance process.”  

Airbnb has fueled the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement when the company announced on Monday that it will cease to list Israeli homes in the West Bank.

A British boycott Israel activist has been arrested after she launched an expletitive-laden attack against staff on an Air India flight. Her verbal assault came after she was refused her request for more in-flight wine service and the staff appeared to not know who she was.

TEL AVIV – UCLA will allow a conference by Students for Justice in Palestine to take place this weekend, despite an appeal from a coalition of Jewish organizations requesting that the event be cancelled over the anti-Israel campus group’s “violence” and anti-Semitism. 

Representatives of the Netherlands’ ruling party have asked the capital city’s government to explain why it allows antisemitic and anti-Israel incitement at a monument for victims of Nazism.

Pharrell Williams’ appearance at a fundraiser for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has drawn unsparing criticism on social media.

Despite the recent wave of anti-Israel incidents at the University of Michigan—and following the deadliest attack on Jews in history of the United States—the school’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies held a town-hall program fostering BDS on Monday, featuring advocates of the anti-Israel movement.

Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has espoused troubling views on Israel and has evidenced close associations with organizations that promote the boycott of the Jewish state and espouse anti-Israel rhetoric.

NEW YORK — New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is “America’s Neville Chamberlain, a public official who has betrayed the cause of a strong and free Israel,” charged Gillibrand’s Republican challenger, Chele Farley.

NEW YORK — New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s continued association with anti-Israel radical Linda Sarsour is “appalling,” while the politician’s seeming turn against Israel “is certainly not what New Yorkers support,” declared Gillibrand’s Republican challenger, Chele Farley.

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.

Citing his loyalty to the BDS movement, professor John Cheney-Lippold at the University of Michigan refused to write a recommendation letter for a student planning to study in Israel.

NEW YORK — Florida Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum delivered an in person welcome and message of encouragement to attendees at an event organized by the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that boasted as one of its main two agenda items support for the extremist Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.

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.

JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have foiled over 200 Palestinian attacks by monitoring social media and sifting through vast amounts of data to identify prospective assailants ahead of time, according to Israel’s public security minister.

Natalie Portman’s decision to cancel her upcoming trip to Israel to accept a special award has been met by equal measures of anger and dismay in the Jewish state.

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) recently “banned” the David Horowitz Freedom Center from its campus after the group posted flyers illustrating the relationship between Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the terrorist group Hamas.

TEL AVIV – Students at Trinity College Dublin voted this week to support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel for the “long-term.”

During his four-day visit to India next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to strengthen the Jewish state’s ties with the Bollywood film industry, according to media reports.

Ringo Starr will perform two shows in Israel later this year in defiance of the anti-Israel BDS movement that calls for the complete isolation of the Jewish State.

Imagine a college convening a panel to discuss “Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice,” that features a woman who seeks the destruction of the Jewish state, and who publicly stands with and supports a Palestinian-Arab terrorist who was convicted of murdering Jewish college students.

TEL AVIV – The University of Michigan’s student government on Wednesday voted in favor of a resolution that would see the university investigating divestment from companies that do business in Israel.

TEL AVIV – The World Council of Churches (WCC) officially endorsed the Palestinian “campaign for Jerusalem,” saying that Israel’s recent move installing additional security measures at the Temple Mount following a terror attack there was a “corrosive act in the midst of an already-fragile peace.”

Israeli border authorities will deny entry to a number of hardcore BDS activists who are expected to visit imminently, sources at the Strategic Affairs Ministry told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

The Mennonite Church USA’s decision to divest its holdings in companies profiting from Israel’s presence in the West Bank is antisemitic at its core, an evangelical litigation expert said.