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Fresh off being barred from Israel and then turning down a humanitarian visit to the West Bank, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has now called for a boycott of HBO’s Bill Maher, who has termed her Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts a “bullshit purity test.” Tlaib tweeted that she was tired of folks like Maher "discrediting…

Emmy-winning actor David Clennon said in an op-ed today that he declined an audition for a new Netflix series because he didn’t want to work with two Israeli producers previously involved in a television show that casts Palestinians in a negative light. In an op-ed for TruthOut.org, Clennon said creative executive…

Big Brother is returning in Israel following the success of a celebrity version. This marks a boon for Endemol Shine, which has faced some challenges with the twenty-year old reality format including last year’s cancellation of the show on Channel 5 in the UK. Despite this, Endemol Shine's Chief Creative Officer Peter…

You have seen the last of Marc Lamont Hill on CNN; the cable news network has fired the Temple University professor after delivering a speech at the United Nations in which he used an expression used as a dog whistle by Hamas and other anti-Israel terror groups. "Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN,"…

Just minutes after SAG-AFTRA announced today that the "content creators" at Al Jazeera English had voted overwhelmingly to join the union, the news site tweeted a link to an opinion piece it posted earlier in the day titled: "Why Israel Does Not Mind Trump’s Anti-Semitic Supporters." The op-ed, by Nora Barrows…

A Palestinian cameraman who worked on Ai Weiwei's Venice 2017 documentary Human Flow has died after being shot while covering clashes between protesters in Gaza and the Israeli military. According to local health officials, Yasser Murtaja, 30, was shot in the side of his stomach on Friday by the Israeli military while…

President Donald Trump announced he officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and will move the U.S. embassy to the city. While TV cameras were trained on him, he signed a directive for the State Department to hire architects to come up with a new embassy in Jerusalem, which he said should be designed as “a…

“Ladies and gentlemen, due to all the division and hatred in this country right now, I've decided to leave America for the relative peace, quiet and sanity of the Middle East,” Conan O’Brien announced on his TBS late-night show. “That's right, I'm going to Israel." Conan‘s latest road trip is scheduled for Tuesday…

In a surprise move, Israel is looking to ban Al Jazeera from operating in the country and in occupied Palestinian territories after claims the Qatar-funded news network "supports terrorism." Israeli communications minister Ayoob Kara announced on Sunday that press cards for the company's reporters would be revoked, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has dropped its trailer for Sand Storm, the drama written and directed by Elite Zexer that is serving as Israel’s submission this year in the Oscar Foreign Language race (that shortlist is due out next week). The pic won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize this year at Sundance where it world…

The WGA West is reaching halfway across the world to lend its support to the Scriptwriters Guild of Israel in its ongoing battle against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the fate of Israel's new Public Broadcasting Corporation. "The new Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation is the result of a law passed by your…

In a letter published today in the UK’s The Guardian, artists across Great Britain including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Dame Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) and Simon Schama are rallying in support of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue versus cultural boycotts in a new group known as the Culture for Coexistence. The letter…