Minister Erdan called on Germany and other European nations to battle BDS by cutting funding to boycott groups and treating anti-Israel campaigns like 'classic anti-Semitism.'
'There should be no room in respected international organizations for those who support terror, promote violence and employ threats and intimidation,' Erdan stated.
'Abbas has budgeted more than $350,000,000 for terrorists and their families. Maybe the PA should pay for Palestinian education rather than Palestinian terror?' Erdan stated.
Mogherini's 'baseless accusations against me won't stop me from stating the facts: EU taxpayer funds go to NGOs linked to BDS and terror,' stated Erdan.
Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry named 42 anti-Israel groups that are affiliated with Palestinian terror groups and receive their orders from the PA.
'We will boycott Pence’s speech, which will be a eulogy for peace,' Arab Knesset member Jamal Zahalka declared. Netanyahu slams the boycott as a 'disgrace.'
"We have many achievements against BDS but I think it is still a threat that could develop with time into a significant threat," Israeli minister Gilad Erdan said.
Israel is asking Google and Apple to remove a new game called “Liyla and the Shadows of War,” which portrays Israeli soldiers as murderers and invites users to put themselves in the shoes of a Palestinian girl in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s war against Hamas in the summer of 2014.
Palestinians are threatening to go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after their attempt to have FIFA declare Israeli soccer teams illegal, was thwarted.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin-The Israel Law Center, and who is suing Facebook for allowing incitement to terrorism on its social media site, has little faith that a recent meeting between Facebook executives and Israeli officials will actually result in sufficient action against online incitement.
The Israeli government and Facebook agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network, a senior Israeli Cabinet minister said Monday.
Fed up with Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg's refusal to remove online posts that incite terror against Israelis and Jews, Israel's Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan said that 'part of the blood of the murdered is on Facebook's hands,' and demanded that the social media network take action.
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan issued an order on Thursday to close the Musawa television station for six months, saying the Palestinian Authority (PA)-funded channel infringes on Israel’s sovereignty.
Until now, Israel has allowed funerals for terrorists to take place only after midnight and with limited attendees to ensure that the events do not turn into terror-support parades. Unfortunately, these funerals have turned into mass events that incite against Israel and call for more terror.
After two Palestinians murdered four innocent Israelis and injured 17 in Tel Aviv Wednesday night, Israel took a number of immediate security measures including surrounding the Palestinian town from which the terrorists originated, and suspended most special entry permits for Palestinians.
Gilad Erdan that though the tools of the proponents of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian terrorists are different, “They are united in their goals, their language of hate and their victims.”
The Palestinian BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) National Committee has sent a petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights claiming that Israel has launched "a desperate and dangerous fight" against them.
"The Human Rights Council is only obsessed with the fate of the Palestinians, and prefers to close its eyes to other critical human rights violations. It consistently disregards the human rights of Israelis..." said Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, whose responsibility includes the fight against the anti-Israel boycott movement, addressed a gathering of Jewish leaders and called for “cautious optimism,” and shared several methods in development that are designed to counter BDS activities.
“The most dangerous nation in the Middle East acting against Israel is the state of Facebook,” said former head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate Amos Yadlin.
As Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis continue, Israel is shoring up plans to combat the issue at its root cause - incitement by the Palestinian Authority.
Kerry again warned of the looming dangers of stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, placing the onus of responsibility solely on Israel.
Israel has outlawed the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, which is responsible for anti-Israel incitement and, in part, for the recent wave of terrorism in Israel.
Israel's leaders are enraged by comments coming out of the US State Department blaming Israel for the Palestinian violence, and for alleging Israel uses excessive force to stop terrorism.