The leading international online payment service PayPal has shut down the account of France’s largest anti-Israel boycott group, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Weinthal confirmed the closure by clicking on the PayPal donation link on the website of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign in France and getting the...

A Protestant pastor from the northern German city of Bremen who caused an uproar when he publicly declared that he was an anti-Semite has resigned his position as the church’s representative on a city council committee for promoting religious dialogue, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. “My...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced on Thursday that an international conference to discuss possible parameters for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be held on June 3 in Paris. A previously planned conference for May 30 was scrapped when Secretary of State John Kerry said that...

A French banking giant has shut down an account belonging to the country’s anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “BDS France used illegal ways to open its account and Crédit Mutuel closed it,” said Jean Patrick Grumberg, an Israeli journalist who has followed the...

The UK Labour Party’s investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism at its affiliated club at Oxford University contained 11 recommendations for “immediate and sustained action,” but did not find institutional racism, a claim that was complicated by the revelation that the release of the full report is being postponed. The report,...

While the White House is encouraging foreign banks to do business with Iran, the Islamic Republic has continued to engage in the same illicit behavior that initially prompted its sanctioning, President Barack Obama’s former undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (Google link) Friday. Stuart Levey, now the chief legal officer of...