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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 – 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.

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.

Tony Perkins, host of the Family Research Council’s Washington Watch radio show, discussed the #DumpKelloggs boycott with Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov on Monday.

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.”

Kellogg’s, a company facing accusations of profiting from child labor practices at an Indonesian supplier, has also faced multiple food product recalls in recent years, some involving products marketed specifically to children in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Students at City University, London, have voted to ban the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Express from campus in order to virtue signal their opposition to fascism. The university is home to one of the most respected journalism schools in the country.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Two bars say that they are removing Yuengling from their stock and canceling future orders. Despite calls for a boycott, Yuengling lovers have reacted by vowing to drink more.

Pro-Palestinian activists stormed University College London (UCL) and attempted to shut down an Israel student event by abusing guests and denying others entry to the meeting hall.

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.

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

Attempts by universities to divest from Israel “should be met with a similar counter response from alumni and donors,” internationally acclaimed attorney Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Thursday.

TEL AVIV — An anti-Zionist course titled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” at the University of California, Berkeley, has been suspended following an outcry over its bias.

Pro-Palestinian activists and members of the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday continuously disrupted a hearing held by the New York City Council Committee on Contracts on a resolution that condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel.

TEL AVIV – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement doesn’t want “a better Israel, they want no Israel at all,” one of the world’s leading Holocaust experts told a London audience on Tuesday night.

TEL AVIV – The former president of the Graduate Students Association at the University of California in Los Angeles who left the school after he faced a “hostile and unsafe environment” from Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists is now accusing the university of failing to back him and being intimidated by BDS.

TEL AVIV – San Francisco State University failed to handle a protest against the mayor of Jerusalem during his speech on campus, an investigation into the incident has found.

TEL AVIV – Anti-Israel activism on U.S. college campuses has undergone a regional shift, with the Midwest experiencing a sharp increase of in anti-Israel boycott activities while the West Coast, formerly the center of anti-Israel involvement, is waning, a new study has found.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The former president of the UCLA Graduate Students Association has left the university’s law school over what he calls a “hostile and unsafe campus climate.”

Actor and rare Hollywood conservative James Woods has a message for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick — you don’t deserve to stand for America’s flag.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee has launched a campaign to procure signatures of all 50 state governors on a petition to divest from companies engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

ACOM, an Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain, successfully overturned a boycott decision passed by the city council of Vélez-Málaga in the Costa del Sol region this week.

TEL AVIV – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed self-declared “progressives” who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, saying that such outright rejection is not in line with progressive ideals.

Pro-Israel activists in the Miami area plan to protest a Florida state senator active in the Black Lives Matter movement who visited the West Bank as the guest of a group that backs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

TEL AVIV – Pro-Palestinian student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has been compiling lists of Jewish students and their dorm addresses on college campuses in the U.S., a Likud minister charged.

Chris Christie, the New Jersey Governor who ran for the Republican Presidential nomination, signed into law legislation targeting the boycott movement Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement).