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Israel’s Olympic bronze medalist Or Sasson said that tensions ran high between the Egyptian and Israeli judo delegations even before the now-infamous rejected handshake with Sasson’s Egyptian competitor Islam El Shehaby.

For the first time, a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist was on Tuesday deported from Israel, Channel 2 News reports.

BERLIN – A German university faced scathing criticism from Israel’s foreign ministry for teaching students that the Jewish state is an apartheid government that harvests Palestinian organs and commits genocidal atrocities.

The Times of Israel reports: Before his election as UK Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn pressed for a boycott of Israel and called on the British foreign secretary at the time to ban Israeli politicians from entering the country, newly released letters from 2010-2015 show.

LONDON (AP) — A Jewish group has launched a lawsuit against British local authorities that called for boycotts of goods from Israeli settlements, claiming the actions are anti-Semitic.

Ynetnews reports: The chancellors of leading US universities, including MIT, the University of Chicago, and all ten campuses of the University of California, have clarified that they are opposed to any academic boycott, in particular to one against Israel.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) wants to see a ban on a left wing protest in Berlin they say is overtly anti-Semitic. May 1st is one of the biggest days of the year for those on the left side of

The Times of Israel reports: American film star and television host Morgan Freeman removed the word “Israel” from a photo taken in Jerusalem, after a Facebook post received torrents of criticism from anti-Israeli activists. Freeman visited Israel in October to

JERUSALEM – Israel’s cyber security community is bracing for a coordinated global attack by the hacker group Anonymous, scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 7. An annual campaign, #OpIsrael began in 2013 on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its goal, according to Techcrunch, was

Arutz Sheva reports: British charity War on Want denied on Sunday reports that the British government had cut off its funding to the group due to the fact that it had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a

The Jerusalem Post reports: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday created a blacklist of companies that are either located in West Bank settlements or have any economic connection with those communities. The decision was part of a sweeping resolution designed

The Jerusalem Post reports: Educational software from a Qatar-based developer teaches users that Jews attempted to assassinate the Muslim prophet Mohammed and that the entirety of Israel is under “occupation,” the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Wednesday. The software,

TEL AVIV – A municipally funded cultural center in Vienna canceled a series of boycott Israel events on Monday, the Jerusalem Post reported. Lisa Grösel, spokeswoman for the Amerlinghaus, said the center “decided in consultation with the event organizers to

The Times of Israel reports: Financial aid to the Palestinian Authority should be granted irrespective of its educational policies, anti-Israel or anti-Semitic incitement, a Swedish minister said. Speaking in parliament at a debate Friday about Stockholm’s assistance to Ramallah, Minister

TEL AVIV – Israeli settlers in the Jordan Valley are refusing to obey the new EU labeling guidelines that call for goods produced in the West Bank to clarify that they were not produced in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Israeli company SodaStream released a video over the weekend dedicated to the 74 Palestinians who were laid off last week after Israeli authorities refused to extend their work permits. The video, which has gone viral on social

JERUSALEM – A poem instructing Palestinian children to embrace “war that will smash the oppressor and destroy the Zionist’s soul” was chanted recently by a little girl on official Palestinian TV, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

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.”

TEL AVIV – Israel Ambassador to the UN slammed Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki’s call to countries all around the world to bar entry to Jewish residents of the West Bank as “pure anti-Semitism.” At a meeting of the United Nations Human

TEL AVIV – A new propaganda video showing terrorists simulating Islamic State-style executions of Israeli soldiers is one of the latest in a series of Hamas-produced videos showcasing terrorist skills and demonstrations. The clip shows three masked Hamas terrorists in camouflage

TEL AVIV – Oman announced that it will not host the 2016 Youth Sailing World Championships because of Israeli participation. World Sailing updated its regulations following Malaysia’s refusal to allow reigning Israeli champions to play their national anthem and display the Israeli

JERUSALEM – Palestinians purportedly randomly interviewed on the street overwhelmingly condemn the participation of children in terror attacks against Israelis, a new report by Fatah-run TV indicates. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported that Awdah TV conducted on-street interviews with Palestinian passersby, asking them

A caller who spouted sickening anti-Semitic hatred for 13 minutes during a live BBC radio phone-in, telling listeners that the UK and corporate America were “ruled by Zionist Jews”, will not be prosecuted, the Metropolitan Police have confirmed. As Breitbart Jerusalem

A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef

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

Anti-Israel activists have targeted the London Underground for a poster campaign marking what they call ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’.

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

JAFFA, Israel – PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (pictured) has called on the British government to discontinue its punitive measures against universities and public associations that support boycotting Israel. Erekat condemned the British policy in a meeting with the British Secretary of

TEL AVIV – Al-Quds University, a partner of Bard College in New York, held a ceremony celebrating the so-called martyrdom of Baha Alyan, the terrorist who killed three civilians and wounded four more in October. The Palestinian Authority’s “High Commission for Youth and Sports” sponsored the Al-Quds event, which honored the memory of 22-year-old Alyan. He along with another terrorist, Bilal Ghanem, carried out the attack on October 13, 2015.

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 – In yet another instance of Israel being wiped from the map, a documentary on the Discovery Channel features a graphic of the Middle East in which Jordan has expanded its borders to encompass the entire area of

When it comes to tackling the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the Jewish state, Israel and its champions should start fighting fire with fire, comic legend Jackie Mason proposed during a radio interview Sunday.

The Anti-Defamation League is pushing back against social media backlash in response to Cristiano Ronaldo’s appearance in an Israeli cable TV commercial. The ADL sent out the following Tweet in response to a Breitbart Jerusalem article posted on Twitter by the news

A British Airbnb host refused to rent an apartment to an Israeli traveller on the basis that Israelis don’t respect “basic human rights.” Tel Aviv photographer Ben Kelmer reserved a £60-a-night apartment for a week in March through the online company,