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Target’s stock price and its favorability among shoppers are crashing as the public rebukes the retail giant for ignoring their vigorous protest against mixed-sex changing rooms and bathrooms.

Ynetnews reports: It has recently come out that the Directorate for the Fight against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) will move its offices from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.

JAFFA, Israel – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in the United States has been a major success with many hitherto unaffiliated populations signing up for the anti-Israel cause, a top Palestinian journalist reported.

Pop rockers Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato have joined a growing list of artists who have cancelled concerts in North Carolina over the state’s recent passage of HB 2, or what has been called an “anti-LGBT” law governing public restrooms.

Director of Government Affairs for the American Family Association (AFA), Sandy Rios, joined Breitbart News Saturday host Matt Boyle to discuss the problem with Target’s recent decision regarding its store’s public restrooms.

Ted Cruz assailed President Obama and his Iranian nuclear deal, warning “every jihadist on the face of the earth… we are coming to kill you” during a speech at the New York State Republican Gala Thursday evening.

The passage of North Carolina’s HB2, Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, also known as the “bathroom bill,” has caused several progressive entertainers to boycott that state in protest of the legislation.

The Times of Israel reports: Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator, is quite familiar with the American Jewish establishment. She is used to fighting against it. During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one

The Jerusalem Post reports: NEW YORK CITY — Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan put a number of German banks on notice that they could face penalties for enabling anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) groups to raise money through their financial

Arutz Sheva reports: Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (pictured) has written a blistering op-ed slamming modern-day anti-Zionism as the “new anti-Semitism.”  In his Newsweek article, published Sunday, Rabbi Sacks refers to figures showing how escalating anti-Semitism has left many

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

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said on Monday that he may revoke the residency status of Omar Barghouti, founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. “The revoking of citizenship or residency is a tool that is hardly ever

TEL AVIV – Despite the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s best efforts, a star-studded lineup of musicians are refusing to give in to the pressure not to perform in Israel. For the first time ever, rock icon Alice Cooper will perform

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority spokesman Adnan Al-Damiri claimed that Israel was behind the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels, according to translations provided by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). Suggesting that it was too much of a coincidence that the attacks occurred when European support for a

A number of top television networks and production studios have joined the growing list of companies who have vowed an economic boycott of the state of Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.

The president of the LGBT advocacy organization Human Rights Campaign has called for major Hollywood production studios to boycott the state of Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state legislature this week.

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.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s governor says he supports a proposal to have the state’s public employee pension fund oppose a boycott seeking to punish Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. The bill won tentative approval in the state Senate on

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

Weekend talk radio host and Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein on Sunday personally offered $10,000 to an anti-Israel caller if he could name another Middle Eastern country aside from Israel where all citizens are provided similar democratic rights.

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

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.”

The Jerusalem Post reports: BERLIN – The hardcore BDS-Kampagne (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign) announced on its website that the French-German DAB Bank in Munich will terminate its account on April 14. In what is widely considered a victory for

Oscar host Chris Rock took to Twitter Thursday to post a cryptic message ahead of Sunday night’s ceremony.

Singer and artist Anohni, the first transgender artist ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, will boycott this year’s ceremony, explaining the reason in a lengthy essay.

TEL AVIV – Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby urged Palestinians to engage in civil disobedience in order to put an end to the “Israeli occupation,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

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: 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 Miami Fraternal Order of Police will boycott Beyoncé’s upcoming concert in the city over the pop star’s politically and racially charged performance at the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this month.

Beyonce’s race-baiting Super Bowl halftime show continues to boomerang on her as police boycott her upcoming concert at Marlins Park on April 26 and off-duty cops refuse to work security for her concert on April 29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

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

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

Hollywood titan Steven Spielberg became the latest industry figure to weigh in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy on Thursday, saying in an interview that he does not believe there is “inherent or dormant racism” in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and that he is “not 100 percent” supportive of the Academy’s dramatic rule changes to increase diversity within the organization.

TEL AVIV – After losing in New Hampshire, there are indications Hillary Clinton will use Sen. Bernie Sanders lack of significant support for the Jewish state as a campaign tactic to woo Jewish and pro-Israel voters.

The Times of Israel reports: Jewish Voice for Peace took credit for distributing thousands of fake and anti-Israel versions of The New York Times in Manhattan and on social media. The organization, which supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions,

Actress Viola Davis weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy at Saturday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, telling reporters backstage that openness “is more important” than a boycott of the Academy Awards and lamenting what she called our “society of trending topics.”