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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 – 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.

Former UK Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has released a whiteboard animation to explain what lies beneath the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and why it is so dangerous.

Conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump have collectively taken to social media on the eve of the 89th annual Academy Awards to encourage a boycott of the film business’s biggest night, as Hollywood insiders and industry observers predict Sunday night’s show could be the most politicized in recent memory.

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.

Some 400 Israeli-American students gathered in Los Angeles over the weekend to learn how to fight the presence of BDS on college campuses.

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.”

A lecture by Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was disrupted Monday as supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign burst in on the event.

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.

John Carney, Breitbart News economics and finance editor, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the fallout from Kellogg’s attack on Breitbart News. Marlow saw it as an unfortunate but necessary victory that Kellogg’s has been obliged to shut down 39 distribution centers, with the potential loss of up to 1,100 jobs, as a result of its decision to engage in partisan politics.

Student groups co-sponsoring a new Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel at an Illinois university used Israeli software to build their websites.

Retail department store Nordstrom’s decision last week to cut first daughter Ivanka Trump’s fashion line has sparked a tremendous backlash from consumers—especially women—who say the company’s move has led them to boycott the store and cut up their Nordstrom’s cards.

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.

President Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt, cleared his first hurdle en route to Senate confirmation with an unusual one-party vote by the Environment and Public Works Committee — a vote boycotted by the committee’s Democrats.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s pledge to hire 10,000 refugees in the wake of President Trump’s executive order on immigration has sparked calls to boycott the coffee chain on social media.

#DeleteUber started to trend on Twitter Sunday, following a call to boycott the ride-sharing service by pro-refugee celebrities and left-wing protesters.

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-nominated film The Salesman, said she would boycott the 89th annual Academy Awards over President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to suspend visas for citizens from some African and Middle Eastern countries.

#OscarsSoWhite isn’t over yet, says the hashtag’s creator April Reign.

When elected federal legislators announce that they are boycotting the official swearing-in of the new president, they are not protesting the person that was elected, they are protesting America itself.

Obama convinced Democrats they would govern for 40 years — and that if they were displaced, it would be by a new party, not today’s GOP.

President Barack Obama assured Americans that the United States would survive a president Donald Trump, despite the hysteria promulgated by Hollywood and the liberal elites.

A growing list of roughly 50 Democratic lawmakers say they will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), who represents Hollywood and the West Side of Los Angeles, has announced that he will boycott the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Friday.

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.

A leftist group that targeted Ivanka Trump’s fashion line in the fall is now targeting the L.L. Bean clothing and equipment company because one of its 50 co-owners dared to donate $60,000 to a pro-Donald Trump political action committee (PAC).

An anonymous group of left-wing Twitter trolls has convinced the New York State Department of Health to withdraw ads promoting colorectal cancer screening from Breitbart News.

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) has announced that he will boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next Friday, becoming the third U.S. representative to do so.

In two op-ed articles for the New York Times’ Sunday Review, the Gray Lady attacks Breitbart News and its founder, Andrew Breitbart, and encourages an effort to “destroy” the company by appealing directly to advertisers not to support the website.

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.

The Chicago Review of Books will not review any books published by Simon & Schuster in 2017 because the publisher gave Breitbart’s MILO a book deal.

At the behest of the Palestinian Authority, Egypt on Thursday introduced a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt all settlement activity, meaning Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.

In an extensive post-election interview with Eater, TV personality and renowned chef Anthony Bourdain vowed to boycott Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. hotel restaurants, and said he does not see evidence that America is a less racist country than it was in the 1960s.

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

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota head coach Tracy Claeys said Sunday that he knew he was risking his job last week when he expressed support for players who boycotted practices and threatened to skip a bowl game if 10 teammates who were suspended after a sexual assault investigation weren’t reinstated.