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TEL AVIV – Italian officials said they are defying calls to boycott Israel by sending the largest ever delegation of Italian academics and researchers to visit the Jewish state this week.

The Algemeiner reports: The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has no stronghold in India, a spokesman at the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. “BDS is far from the Indian mentality,” said Ohad Horsandi, who was

TEL AVIV – One in three Americans back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a legitimate way of applying pressure on Israel, while nearly two-thirds see it as anti-Semitic, a new poll found. The survey, conducted by Ipsos,

The LA Times reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders has begun pushing the Democratic Party toward a platform fight over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a departure from his core focus on domestic economic issues that would put pressure on Hillary Clinton to handle a growing divide within her party.

Arutz Sheva reports: US Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-CA), along with Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Trade Representative Michael Froman this week, calling on them to oppose a UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The Washington Post reports: JERUSALEM — Israel’s justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, on Wednesday slammed European leaders who criticize Israel and advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the country, accusing them of simply swapping old anti-Semitic tropes for a new format.

A graduate student union at New York University passed a motion supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel on Friday.

Arutz Sheva reports: Soon after actor Morgan Freeman posted a Facebook profile photo in which he was smiling against the background of Jerusalem’s Old City, his Facebook page – which is “liked” by over 18.5 million people worldwide – has

The Jerusalem Post reports: WASINGTON DC – A leading US Senator Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks to stop boycotts of Israel.

TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton said in a recent interview that Israel was not solely to blame for the failure of the peace process and that Palestinian inaction played a large part. In a radical departure from the attitude of

The Jerusalem Post reports: Visiting U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) said Monday he chose Israel as the destination of his first trip abroad in his powerful new role “to show how important our ties and our alliance with

A British charity that sponsored events accused of promoting hatred and violence against Jews and Israel has lost its government funding. The Department for International Development (Dfid) said that it no longer supported War on Want, which helped underwrite “Israeli Apartheid Week” in

The Jerusalem Post reports: Knesset Deputy Speaker Hilik Bar (pictured) will address both houses of the Alabama State Legislature on the topic of Israel’s security challenges and US-Israel cooperation next week. Alabama Lt.-Gov. Kay Ivey invited Bar to speak before a joint

The campaign to boycott Israel is committing a “crime worse than apartheid” UK Justice Secretary Michael Gove said as he was honoured for his support of the country and Anglo-Jewry in New York.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of an organization representing Jewish communities worldwide says it is launching a new initiative to counter the anti-Israel boycott movement on college campuses. Ron Lauder, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, says his group will

Ynet news reports: The fight against BDS has now extended to the artistic arena. A significant number of key figures and politicians have joined forces for the good of hasbara (Israeli public relations) in its struggle against the propaganda of organizations

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday banned imports into the West Bank from all of Israel’s major food companies, the Times of Israel reported. Products from the Tnuva, Strauss, Tara, Soglowek, and Tapuzina will not be allowed to enter Palestinian-controlled

The Jerusalem Post reports: TORONTO – More stickers advising consumers not to purchase products made in Israel are popping up across Canada. Facebook posts now show the stickers on Sabra hummus, Keter and SodaStream products, Glutino biscuits, dates and tangerines

BEVERLY HILLS — Howie Mandel was the master of ceremonies for the Israeli-American Council (IAC)’s 8th annual Los Angeles Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last weekend.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana has announced a performance with his band at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park on July 30. Santana, who rose to fame after an incendiary performance at the Woodstock Festival

A group of California lawmakers are pushing efforts to pass legislation that would prevent the Golden State from contracting with companies that refuse to do business with Israel, on the basis of discrimination and antisemitism against the only Jewish state in the world.

TEL AVIV – British Secretary of Justice Michael Gove laid into the BDS movement on Tuesday, saying the “campaign indulges prejudice rather than fighting it,” the Jerusalem Post reported. Speaking at a conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin, Gove suggested that the

A global Muslim body called for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians. The demand came at the end of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)

TEL AVIV – Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition in favor of divestment from companies related to Israel, the Columbia Spectator reported. The petition, which was signed on Monday – the first day of so-called Israel Apartheid Week, urged the Ivy League college to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.”

Ynetnews reports: A group of BDS supporters disrupted a lecture by two Israeli students at the University of South Florida earlier this week. One of the protesters was Tariq Abu Khdeir, who was beat up by Israeli police officers when

The Jerusalem Post reports: Omar Barghouti of the anti-Israel BDS movement, should no longer be permitted to reside in Israel, MK Nava Boker (Likud) wrote to Interior Minister Arye Deri Thursday. “Barghouti spends most of his time lecturing around the

The Jerusalem Post reports: One month after passing a motion supporting a boycott against Israel, the Spanish municipality of Aviles distanced itself from that position and denounced it as discriminatory. The northern city’s council on Saturday nullified its January motion

The Times of Israel reports: An event including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist who has likened Israel to Nazi Germany, was canceled by the Austrian Parliament two day after invitations were sent out. A spokeswoman for the

The Times of Israel reports: A billboard in Chicago calling for a boycott of Israel will be removed following a public outcry. Lamar Advertising, which leases billboards throughout the country, announced in a Facebook post on Friday that it would

The Times of Israel reports: Austria invited Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist whom the Anti-Defamation League criticized for demonizing Israel, to represent Holocaust survivors at a panel discussion about women during World War II. In invitations sent out Friday

The Jerusalem Post reports: Anti-Israel campus activist groups in the United States are shifting their tactics, replacing BDS resolutions with “theatrics and disruptive tactics,” according to a report by a Jewish watchdog group. In its “Fall 2015 Campus Trends” report,

TEL AVIV — Israel is going on the offensive to combat the boycott Israel movement, the Washington Post reported. The Israeli government recently earmarked close to $26 million to fight global attempts at delegitimizing the Jewish state’s right to exist. Most of

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday praised the UK government for new guidelines that prohibit publicly funded bodies from boycotting Israeli-made products. “I want to commend the British government for refusing to discriminate against Israel and

TEL AVIV – The Jordanian parliament is considering the cancellation of a natural gas import deal with Israel following pressure from the Jordanian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Members of the Jordanian parliament are expected to participate in the discussion, and

TEL AVIV – A water conference in South Africa was canceled due to condemnation by BDS activists regarding the inclusion of Israel’s ambassador, the Times of Israel reported. Ambassador Arthur Lenk was slated to take part in a panel at the Johannesburg

TEL AVIV – A report on Israeli television on Tuesday night charged that the recently enacted U.S. Customs policy to label products from the West Bank was an “under the radar” policy change with regard to the settlements. Last month, the U.S. issued a reminder that products imported from the West Bank or Gaza Strip should not be labeled “Made in Israel,” in accordance with a 1995 law. The reminder sparked accusations that Washington was hardening its position against Israeli settlement activity, a claim that U.S. officials rejected.