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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.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, Democratic and Republicans leaders in both the House and Senate introduced legislation that would penalize foreign countries and international governmental organizations that seek to engage in the boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel.

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.

TEL AVIV – A petition calling for McGill University to expel a student union leader who urged Twitter followers to “punch a Zionist” has received nearly 2,000 signatures, The Algemeiner reported.

TEL AVIV – Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activists in Spain will be tried in court for the harassing Jewish American singer Matisyahu and for calling for his performance at an international reggae festival to be cancelled in August 2015, a Spanish court ruled.

Last week, the Associated Students of UC Riverside voted 13-0 in favor of a resolution calling for the removal of hummus that is partially owned by an Israeli company from all campus dining services.

The incoming Trump administration will be “infested” with pro-Israel figures, Palestinian-American academic Rashid Khalidi said this week.

TEL AVIV – The Knesset Internal Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a bill banning boycott Israel activists from entering the country.

Michigan has become the latest state to pass legislation aimed at combatting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan measure objecting to last month’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 on Thursday, garnering 342-80 votes in favor of House Resolution 11.

Sources inform Breitbart News that U.S. President Barack Obama may allow several anti-Israel resolutions to pass at the UN that would legitimize and strengthen the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state.

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.

TEL AVIV – An anti-Semitism bill unanimously approved by the Senate earlier this month aimed at combating harassment of Jewish students on college campuses failed to pass the House of Representatives.

Despite the efforts of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to isolate Israeli academia, prestigious American universities continue to consider the Jewish state “a preferred collaboration partner for US researchers,” a newly released report revealed.

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 – An event attended by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was slammed by pro-Israel student groups over its claim that “Israel manipulates the minds of politicians and ordinary Americans.”

JERUSALEM – An Israel-Spain World Cup qualifying match will be played in the northern Spanish city of Gijon, prompting outrage among Israeli officials because of city’s blanket boycott of Israel.

An Egyptian rock band is facing boycott threats from Palestinian university students after it coordinated an upcoming show in the West Bank with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.

TEL AVIV – Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren urged Israelis to “think twice” before buying French products in reprisal for Paris’ “shameful” decision to label Israeli goods manufactured in West Bank settlements.

US President- elect Donald Trump has tapped a frequent critic of his during the campaign to represent his incoming administration at the United Nations.

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon welcomed the selection Wednesday of Nikki Haley to represent the US at the world body, calling the South Carolina Governor “a longstanding and true friend of Israel” and an “outspoken fighter against the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in her state and throughout the US.”

The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is an “insidious” phenomenon that must be tackled head-on, an Illinois congressman who co-authored a new anti-BDS bill told The Algemeiner on Monday.

A new initiative is enlisting Israel Defense Forces lone soldiers (those without immediate family members in the country) as volunteers to combat the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in North America and Europe.

Anti-Israel activists vandalized a restaurant in Portugal because its head chef participated in a food festival in Israel.

While BDS activists have failed to get American educational institutions to boycott the Jewish state, they are succeeding in “miseducating a generation of future leaders” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, internationally renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz warned on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – Organizers of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Germany attempted to “remove with physical violence” a Jewish man for marching with the Israeli flag while allowing anti-Israel activists and those sporting the Palestinian scarf, or keffiyeh, to participate.

A bill to bar activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was approved by the Knesset Monday in its first reading.

TEL AVIV – More than two decades since their last performance in Israel, Aerosmith is slated to return to the Holy Land for a one-off concert in Tel Aviv in May 2017.

The City University of New York in Brooklyn, Northwestern University and many of the schools in the University of California system were found to be among the most hostile campuses for Jewish students, with high rates of anti-Semitic harassment and anti-Israel activity.

TEL AVIV – The European Union’s commissioner for human rights called on the organization to stop ignoring the rise in anti-Semitism on the continent and to use the Holocaust as a reminder of the dangers posed by complacency.

German public school teacher and leading BDS activist praised a Facebook photo of a Palestinian using a slingshot to apparently hurl stones at Israelis, prompting calls on Friday and Saturday for his immediate removal from the classroom in the city of Oldenburg, in the state of Lower Saxony.

The UN High commissioner on human rights—Jordanian Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein—called on the UN deputy secretary-general to prepare to publish “the Black List” of Israeli businesses and international corporations which have ties with the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to facilitate the launching of boycotts.

On Saturday afternoon, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed an historic anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) bill, Assembly Bill 2844, into law, effectively barring companies that engage in discrimination against any sovereign state — including the Jewish state of Israel — from doing business with the Golden State.

TEL AVIV – An event in the House of Representatives advocating an economic boycott of Israel sponsored by a Democratic House lawmaker has been canceled following the Congresswoman’s withdrawal amid complaints from fellow Democrats.