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The Palestinian flag will fly above City Hall in Dublin this month after councillors overwhelmingly voted to support the move, backing what they called communities living under “apartheid, worse than South Africa.”

TEL AVIV – An Israeli court temporarily lifted a travel ban on a co-founder of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement so he can receive a “peace award” at Yale University this weekend, the organization behind the prize said this week.

TEL AVIV – Anti-Israel activists have chosen the Passover week to heavily ramp up their activities on U.S. college campuses while Jewish groups are away celebrating the holiday.

Facing deportation, convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh received a standing ovation at an anti-Israel conference she keynoted this past Sunday, while the families of her victims held a memorial service to mourn the loss of their loved ones at the same Chicago hotel.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley received a standing ovation at the General Assembly on Wednesday after pledging to defend Israel against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, saying it was a modern day

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) took aim at President Donald Trump Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday, falsely claiming that “white nationalist dog whistles” were being “blown by Steve Bannon in the West Wing.”

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, speaking at the at the American Israeli Political Affairs Commission’s annual conference in D.C. on Monday, reiterated her commitment to strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship and holding the United Nations accountable for its bias against the Jewish State.

TEL AVIV – A Georgetown University advisory board has thrown out a motion to join the anti-Israel boycott on the grounds that “divestment would not be an effective tactic to end hostilities or promote a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

TEL AVIV – Legislation blocking anti-Israel boycott activists from entering the country passed at the Knesset with 46-28 in the final reading on Monday.

A youth group of Italians in Israel has denounced the decision of the University of Turin’s student council to cut ties with Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology as a protest over Israel’s military rule over the Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – A pro-Israel student group at Columbia University is launching “Hebrew Liberation Week” to counter the upcoming annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” by celebrating the connection between the Jews and Israel, the Algemeiner reported.

Spurred in part by a spate of controversies over anti-Semitism in one of the state’s towns, Montana lawmakers advanced a bill Saturday that pledges solidarity with Israel by refusing to do business with firms boycotting the Middle Eastern country.

The announcement that that the partners of the Leviathan gas reservoir will invest $3.75 billion in its development is a devastating blow to the BDS movement, Eli Groner, director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Foreign Ministry said it was “horrified” by the cancellation of a talk by the ambassador to Ireland at a Dublin university following a “vicious” protest by pro-Palestinian students.

TEL AVIV – The student council at the University of Western Ontario in Canada came out last week in condemnation of a “hate speech”-filled flier circulating the campus that blamed last month’s Quebec mosque shooting on “Jewish terrorists.”

TEL AVIV – London’s City University and Ulster University in Northern Ireland threw out motions supporting the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel earlier this month.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new documentary, Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus, aims to expose what it calls the the left’s coalition with radical Islamic and antisemitic groups on college campuses throughout the United States, working together to marginalize pro-Israel students.

TEL AVIV – Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel are not even aware that the campaign is anti-Semitic and has its roots in Nazism, famed French intellectual and author Bernard-Henri Lévy told CNN Sunday.

Israeli Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel condemned the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement during a European Union conference on Monday.

The Knesset internal Affairs and Environment Committee approved on Wednesday a bill that allows the Interior Ministry to ban people who call to boycott Israel from entering the country.

The U.S. Modern Language Association on Saturday voted 113-to-79 to reject a resolution calling for an academic boycott of Israel.

Following complaints, a French supermarket apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” on some of its products.

The Palestinian leadership plans to expand its campaign against settlement activity, focusing on the boycott of settlement products and settlers, a top Palestinian official said.

JERUSALEM – Israel needs to see the issue of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a war that should be waged against on a massive scale, Breitbart Jerusalem’s bureau chief Aaron Klein told a Knesset plenum on Tuesday.

Two lawmakers introduced companion anti-BDS bills in the Texas Senate and House that would prohibit the Lone Star State from investing public funds in companies that boycott Israel.

Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law a bill targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

Two bottles of an Israeli wine that is banned in some parts of the world due to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish State, sold for a record $12,000 each during an auction in Miami on Tuesday.

Israeli goods from Judea and Samaria — also known as the West Bank — will be featured and handed out as gifts during the 2016 Kosher Food and Wine Festival in Miami on Wednesday evening, in an act of defiance against the “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) movement.

TEL AVIV – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, labeling anti-Israel activism as anti-Semitic and comparing BDS to Nazi boycotts.

TEL AVIV – Holding signs saying “Zionism is racism,” anti-Israel protestors at Columbia University staged a walkout at an event Tuesday evening when a Jewish student spoke of his connection to the land of Israel, The Algemeiner reported.

TEL AVIV – In a first, Israel denied entry to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activist who arrived at Ben-Gurion airport Monday on a tourist visa.

JERUSALEM – Nevada is the latest U.S. state to introduce legislation combating anti-Israel boycotts, JNS reported.

TEL AVIV – Israel slammed France over a new regulation issued Thursday urging French businesses to label goods manufactured in West Bank settlements, saying the country, which has a law against boycotts, was singling out Israel while ignoring 200 territorial disputes around the world.  

TEL AVIV – One of three candidates nominated for the presidency of the UK’s Union of Jewish Students is an Israeli-born anti-Zionist activist in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

A Texas state senator plans to shore up, close loopholes, and expand the state’s existing divestiture standard for the Iranian and Sudanese governments in two bills that prevent taxpayer dollars from flowing into countries that sponsor terrorism.

TEL AVIV – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists are marching in anti-Trump protests and calling for violence against Israel in what has been slammed as a “hijack” of other movements in order to promote an anti-Israel agenda.