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TEL AVIV – A group of Israeli women were barred from participating in a femininity and gender identity festival in Norway over what the organizers described as Israel’s “propaganda” using culture to “whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people.”

TEL AVIV – The University of Michigan’s student government on Wednesday voted in favor of a resolution that would see the university investigating divestment from companies that do business in Israel.

DICKINSON, Texas — A Houston suburb removed a requirement from a hurricane repair grant program that homeowners must agree to not boycott Israel as a condition of receiving money.

Israeli border authorities will deny entry to a number of hardcore BDS activists who are expected to visit imminently, sources at the Strategic Affairs Ministry told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

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.

The Texas House State Affairs Committee passed on Wednesday a bill banning state contracts and investments in companies that boycott Israel.

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

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 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 – 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.

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.

“F**k ‘em,” The Stranglers’ Jean-Jacques “JJ” Burnel said about anti-Israel boycotters over the legendary British punk rock band’s decision to perform in the Jewish state.

Governor Wolf has signed legislation that he says will ensure that Pennsylvania no longer does business with organizations that are engaged in activities geared toward the destruction of Israel.

Increasing numbers of British people are opposed to economic boycotts of Israel, according to new polling.

TEL AVIV – Dozens of anti-Israel protesters stormed a pro-Israel event last week at London’s University College London (UCL) and were alleged to have assaulted two women, one of the victims claimed.

The mayor of the German city of Oldenburg announced his opposition on Wednesday to the anti-Israel BDS activity of a public school teacher, Christoph Glantz, in the town of nearly 164,000 people in the state of Lower Saxony.

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 – A campaign launched by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is lobbying members of Congress to end the Israeli “occupation.”

The Irish district council of Derry and Strabane approved a motion, by majority vote, to back a campaign to boycott Israeli goods in solidarity with Palestinians, Thursday.