First, the London Underground was littered with anti-Israel guerilla advertising. Then, David Cameron proclaimed in the House of Commons that he was “shocked” by the “encirclement of East Jerusalem” by Israeli settlements. Now, it looks as if Israel is to be passed over by Shakespeare’s Globe theatre company on its...

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Members of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) mocked Jewish victims of last year’s terror attack on a Paris kosher supermarket, according to an inquiry into anti-Semitic incidents in the club, The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported on Sunday. Citing The Sunday Times, the JC added that students in the OULC...

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Senior Palestinian Authority officials blamed a group of British parliamentarians for the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a Ramallah lunch meeting between a delegation from Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a group that brings British lawmakers from...

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The United Kingdom is set to prevent its publicly funded bodies from engaging in boycotts of Israel. Under new procurement guidelines to be announced later this week, local governments will be prevented from violating a World Trade Organisation accord signed by the EU and Israel that prohibits singling-out suppliers from participating nations, such as Israel, for discriminatory treatment....

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Oxford University Press (OUP) has teamed up with three Israeli education technology companies to boost its online services. The distinguished British publishing house, which publishes more than 6,000 titles a year and sells more than 110 million units annually, announced collaborations with the Israeli startups Tiny Tap, Total Boox and KIDOZ. Last...

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An IsraAid delegation is being hailed for the relief it’s extending to residents of Yorkshire county in northern England, which suffered severe flooding at the end of December, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. The volunteers– Navonel Glick, Mickey Noam-Alon, Yuval Statman, and Gilad Lavi– have been helping rebuild destroyed homes...

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Can Jews, Muslims and Christians live side by side peacefully in Israel? It’s a question many people ask themselves. But they can, and they do, in cities such as Haifa and in less well-known Lod, whose slogan is “A mosaic of cultures.” The municipality is working hard to raise the...

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The United Kingdom is planning to introduce new guidelines that forbid local councils from undermining British foreign policy by waging their own boycott campaigns against other nations, The Guardian reported on Saturday. The directive, which will be issued early next year, will emphasize that local governing bodies must pursue policies...

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London mayor Boris Johnson called boycotters of Israel “foolish” while visiting Tel Aviv on a trip designed to attract Israeli high-tech companies to his city, the Associated Press reported Monday. The mayor of London has lashed out against boycotters of Israel as “lefty academics” who wield no real influence. … Johnson...

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Lord Robert Winston, a British academic and leader in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF), said that anti-Israel boycotters are “mostly second-rate academics from minor universities who have never done anything,” during a dinner hosted last week in his honor by the British ambassador to Israel, Ha’aretz reported. Winston...

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