WASHINGTON, DC — Israeli and American leaders from the Jewish and Christian communities spoke at a packed event on Monday at the historic Sixth and I Synagogue in downtown D.C. which focused on combating the de-legitimization of Israel through the embrace of Judea and Samaria.
The California Democratic Party voted last weekend to oppose pro-Israel federal legislation designed to counter the “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel economically and diplomatically.
TEL AVIV – The Irish Senate on Tuesday postponed voting on a bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condemnation of the proposed legislation.
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
TEL AVIV – More than 100 artists penned an open letter published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper Friday in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in the Jewish state.
A full page advertisement calling pop singer Lorde a bigot appeared in the Washington Post this week on the heels of her cancellation of a concert in Israel, after the New Zealand native publicly joined the anti-Israel movement known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS.
It’s so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age.
New Zealand pop star Lorde sparked intense backlash and calls for a boycott on social media this week after cancelling a planned concert in Israel next summer due to pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
TEL AVIV – Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Monday requested that NGOs in support of anti-Israel boycotts no longer receive eligibility for volunteers from Israel’s national service program.
TEL AVIV – Rocker Nick Cave said his decision to perform in Israel on Sunday and Monday was the direct result of the BDS movement which “bullies and censors” musicians.
TEL AVIV – Boy George shot down claims from BDS activists that his performance in Tel Aviv Tuesday night was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid, saying the two weren’t comparable and that Israel was in his heart.
TEL AVIV – A top French movie producer slammed the Arab world for its sweeping “Jew hatred” after being booted from North Africa’s most prestigious film festival because of previous collaborations with Israelis.
Student leaders at the University of Ottawa rejected a motion to support boycotts of Israel on Sunday, marking the ninth consecutive defeat for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign on Canadian campuses over the past two years.
TEL AVIV – Nick Cave and his band are the latest targets of Roger Waters bullying campaign aimed at preventing the singer from playing in “apartheid” Israel next month.
President Donald Trump has nominated the founder of a group that defends Jewish students against anti-Semitism to the post of assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Education Department.
TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim citizen of Israel blasts the notion that the Jewish state is an “apartheid,” saying people should be “ashamed” for using that term to describe the only country in the Middle East that provides “freedom of belief, the right to educate, to elect and be elected” to all minorities.
NEW YORK, NY — This week, progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in opposing the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), claiming the bill violates the First Amendment right to support boycotting Israel and the settlements by penalizing U.S. citizens.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is under fire from World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by her decision to withdraw her backing for anti-BDS legislation introduced by a fellow Democrat, citing the First Amendment as the basis for her choice.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator and a global leader in the effort to boycott Israel, is reported to be on a waiting list for a lung transplant in Israel.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is under fire from fellow progressives for supporting bipartisan legislation that would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the crippling boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against 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.”
Every now and then, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters rises like a ghost from the depths of his own depravity to spew his blatant Jew-hatred shamelessly across the airwaves. He can’t help it.
Ireland’s president met with Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a move Israel denounced.
TEL AVIV – Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters compared the Israeli government to Nazi Germany, saying Israel was “the worst regime in the world,” during an hour-long Q&A session over the weekend led by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement leader Omar Barghouti.
The Canadian government is reeling from a foiled attempt at a boycott of Israeli wines. While they might have failed this time around, those behind this bizarre action are likely to be back.
A UN forum on the Palestinian issue on Friday provided a platform for anti-Zionist activists to promote the BDS campaign, claim that Israel practices “apartheid worse than South Africa,” and even – in the case of one Israeli Jewish speaker – proffer a formal apology for having taken up Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.
On Thursday, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) officially became the sixth candidate — and second Republican — to announce his candidacy for California’s 2018 Democrat-heavy gubernatorial race.
International human rights lawyer Anne Bayefsky reported on U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s latest statement about the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily. Bayefsky expressed disappointment with the mild character of Haley’s brief remarks, compared to the boldness of her earlier criticism of the Council.
A Native American studies professor at Dartmouth college in New Hampshire who co-authored a declaration urging the boycott of Israeli educational institutions walked back his acceptance as the dean of the college’s faculty of arts and sciences on Tuesday.
On Monday’s Breitbart News Daily, Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, discussed her group’s upcoming protest against a speech by Muslim activist Linda Sarsour at City University of New York.
Join us May 25 at CUNY offices on 42nd street to protest the invitation to BDS leader Linda Sarsour to keynote CUNY’s Commencement ceremony. Sarsour was invited by Ayman El-Mohandes, the dean of CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. CUNY is standing by its decision to honor the Muslim activist. Such sanction is so malignant and so evil, it cannot be ignored. There is a responsibility for the time we are living in.
White House foreign policy adviser Dr. Sebastian Gorka won loud applause from the audience at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on Sunday with a strident defense of his record and the Trump administration’s policies.
Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, has addressed a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressing his “shock and horror” that leftist sharia advocate and alleged terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour was tapped by CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health & Public Policy as their commencement speaker, urging him to cancel her appearance at the taxpayer-funded university.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority rejected the U.S. government’s request that the PA halt its pay-for-slay practice of rewarding convicted Palestinian terrorists and their families with monetary compensation. PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s senior foreign policy adviser, Nabil Shaath, reportedly
Needless to say, my picture with Steve Bannon — with the whiteboard of campaign promises and priorities in the background — seems to be the tweet heard around the world.
TEL AVIV – Switzerland’s foreign ministry has sparked outrage over its efforts to maintain a dialogue with Gaza-based terror group Hamas.
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.
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.
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.
Last week, a group of vandals targeted the Chabad at San Diego State University (SDSU) and broke one of the branches of their free-standing menorah, which the Jewish people use to celebrate Hanukkah.
