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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.

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.

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 – The co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar Barghouti, was arrested Monday for tax evasion to the tune of some $700,000 in income.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

TEL AVIV – Anti-Semitic activity on U.S. college campuses with the largest Jewish undergraduate populations has skyrocketed during the first half of 2016 compared to the same time last year, a new report shows.

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 – 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.

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 – 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,