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A municipality in the renowned Spanish holiday island of Ibiza has passed a resolution endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Ministry and Public Security ministry launched a committee Sunday that would prohibit anti-Israel activists from entering Israel and deport those already in the country.

For the first time, a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist was on Tuesday deported from Israel, Channel 2 News reports.

TEL AVIV – Multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist Carlos Santana told tens of thousands of Israelis to pray for peace and an end to violence during his concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.

Tim Kaine joined anti-Israel radicals in boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, and blocked a vote on the Iran deal.

TEL AVIV – A new poll shows anti-Semitism is rife among leftwing Germans, with 34% of respondents saying Jews have “too much influence” in the country, the Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Grammy-award winning musician Pharrell Williams cancelled his July 21 debut performance in Israel amid speculation that the singer succumbed to pressure from the boycott Israel movement.

TEL AVIV – Legendary multi-Grammy-award winning guitarist Carlos Santana snubs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to perform in Tel Aviv at the end of this month after 29 since his last concert in Israel.

TEL AVIV – Orange County District Attorney’s office is investigating a violent protest held by the University of California’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter in May, in which demonstrators shouted profanities at both UC Irvine Police and pro-Israel supporters.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has revived a medieval blood libel by disseminating the news that a fictitious Rabbinic Council in Israel ruled that Jews must poison Palestinian water with the purposes of killing them.

TEL AVIV – Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren denounced the boycott movement and said she is a “believer” in Israel while visiting Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is not as big a problem as people think and is only present on certain campuses in the U.S., according to professors Theodore Sasson and Leonard Saxe from Brandeis.

In the aftermath of the terror attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona complex, a Palestinian columnist writing in the London-based daily Al-Hayat condemns the methods of Palestinian armed resistance, claiming that even though attacks like the one in Tel Aviv have elements of “heroism and sacrifice,” they ultimately do more harm than good in advancing the Palestinian cause.

Hispanic activists are gearing-up to turn out massive numbers to protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while he is in Texas this week. The organizer of the event in Dallas says the event there is being billed as “Dump the Trump,” and “Dump Dufus Donald.”

TEL AVIV – Iconic British rock band Queen are the latest musicians to tell the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement where to shove it by announcing their debut performance in Tel Aviv with Adam Lambert as lead singer.

BERLIN – In the latest in a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

TEL AVIV – In a major blow to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, this week saw reports emerge that four Spanish municipalities ditched support for boycotts of the Jewish state, while in the U.S., members of the American Anthropological

TEL AVIV – J Street is pushing Bernie Sanders’ efforts to make the Democratic Party platform’s language more “balanced” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with emphasis on recognizing Palestinian rights to Jerusalem and concern over Israel’s settlement policy as “endanger[ing] peace.”

The Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, on Monday released a statement in support of the BDS movement against Israel.

TEL AVIV – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order barring agencies under his control from having any business dealings with entities that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.

TEL AVIV – The Simon Wiesenthal Center accused city officials in the northern German city of Bremen of being complicit in boycotts against Israel that recall Nazi-era boycotts of Jews, The Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Italian officials said they are defying calls to boycott Israel by sending the largest ever delegation of Italian academics and researchers to visit the Jewish state this week.

TEL AVIV – One in three Americans back the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a legitimate way of applying pressure on Israel, while nearly two-thirds see it as anti-Semitic, a new poll found. The survey, conducted by Ipsos,

Fallout over the abuse allegations against Johnny Depp made by his wife, actress Amber Heard, has spread to Depp’s music career as social media users posting the hashtag #ImWithAmber have called for a boycott of the actor’s concert Monday in Sweden at Stockholm’s Gröna Lund theme park.

Johnny Depp’s latest film, Alice Through the Looking Glass, tanked at the domestic box office over the Memorial Day holiday weekend as calls to boycott the actor over his alleged physical abuse of wife Amber Heard continued to grow louder on social media.

TEL AVIV – More than 150 professors at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, signed an open letter condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – Twenty-six African-American Christian leaders are participating in a May 23-29 educational trip to Israel sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship).

TEL AVIV – A hardline German BDS group is conducting anti-Israel campaigns from a city-owned and federally-funded property in Bremen, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The Jerusalem Post reports: 20 Israeli academic have encouraged the American Anthropological Association to boycott Israeli higher academic institutions, according to a report released Thursday by the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders announced Thursday that calls to boycott the Jewish state fall within the limits of free speech, undermining intensive Israeli diplomatic efforts to sway European capitals to outlaw the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement.

Dave Matthews Band will donate the proceeds from their upcoming concert in Charlotte to five organizations fighting North Carolina’s recently enacted transgender bathroom law.

Maroon 5 cancelled a pair of upcoming concerts in North Carolina over the state’s recent passage of what critics call anti-transgender bathroom legislation.

In April 2014, Hollywood took a stand against Sharia law, initiating a boycott against the swanky Beverly Hills Hotel. That is all but abandoned in favor of the boycott of North Carolina over it’s transgender bathroom law.

Target’s managers have angered millions of their customers, tarnished the company’s brand, and damaged its stock value by suddenly demanding that all customers use mixed-sex bathrooms and mixed-sex changing rooms in the chain’s 1,800 stores. What made them drive their

The Washington Post reports: JERUSALEM — Israel’s justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, on Wednesday slammed European leaders who criticize Israel and advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the country, accusing them of simply swapping old anti-Semitic tropes for a new format.

A pro-law enforcement group protested pop star Beyoncé’s concert in Tampa, Florida on Friday by chartering a plane to fly around the concert arena with a banner reading “#BlueLivesMatter.”