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Ferencvaros' head coach Robbie Keane ahead of the Europa League opening phase soccer match between Nottingham Forest and Ferencvaros in Nottingham, England, January 29, 2026. (AP/Morgan Harlow)
June 5, 2026, 5:36 pm
Celtic soccer fans protest tapping of Robbie Keane as coach over stint in Tel Aviv
Keane joined Maccabi Tel Aviv as coach in June 2023 and won a title, but left amid the Gaza war; pro-Palestinian fans of Scottish team call decision to hire him ‘unconscionable’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Campaigners for and against a BDS referendum at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 5, 2026, 4:31 am
Bamba blankets NYC after Park Slope co-op Israel boycott vote. What’s next?
UJA-Federation floats Israeli food fairs, sends thousands of bags of peanut snack to pantries in response to prominent shop’s divisive decision last week to ban Israeli products
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Campaigners for and against a BDS referendum at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 29, 2026, 7:52 pm
BDS vote takes products from coexistence-promoting foodmakers off NYC co-op’s shelves
Vote in Park Slope covers eight companies connected to Israel, including Jewish-Arab bridge building nonprofit led by women, and tahini from factory owned by Muslim family
By Luke Tress
Campaigners for and against a BDS referendum at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 27, 2026, 8:35 pm
Opponents of boycott at NYC Park Slope co-op reckon with community’s vote against Israel
Cornerstone market in progessive Brooklyn neighborhood approves BDS campaign against Israeli products, forcing Jews and allies to decide whether they will remain members
By Luke Tress
Sally Rooney takes part in a panel during the Winter 2020 Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 17, 2020, in Pasadena, California. (Richard Shotwell/ Invision/ AP)
May 20, 2026, 8:49 am
Sally Rooney to publish novel in Hebrew with ‘BDS-compliant’ Israeli publisher
Anti-Israel Irish literary star says publishing ‘Intermezzo’ in Hebrew through November Books is compatible with the boycott campaign, after declining to translate her previous book
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Noam Bettan from Israel arrives on stage ahead of the dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 16, 2026, 1:34 pm
Israel’s Noam Bettan prepares to take the stage at partly boycotted Eurovision final
Israeli delegation said to believe ‘Michelle’ could win the public vote; Finnish violinist-singer duo and acclaimed Australian star are favorites to take the contest
By ToI Staff and Agencies
FILE - Author R.F. Kuang poses for a portrait near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
May 6, 2026, 12:48 am
Anti-Israel novelist’s new book includes minor Israeli character, prompting online backlash
Rebecca ‘R. F.’ Kuang is accused of ‘normalizing Israel,’ following leak of excerpt from ‘Taipei Story’ in which an unnamed musician is identified as Israeli; some cancel preorders
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A man running in front of a sign for the Venice Biennale in Italy in an undated photo. (Stefano Mazzola via Getty Images via JTA)
April 28, 2026, 9:57 am
Venice Biennale judges won’t consider Israel due to Netanyahu’s ICC arrest warrant
Artist and sculptor Belu-Simion Fainaru, representing Israel, says he believes ‘art thrives on openness’; Foreign Ministry: ‘Spectacle of false, anti-Israeli political indoctrination’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Protesters hold a banner and Palestinian flags as they take part in a demonstration against Israel's candidate during the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 opening ceremony in Basel, Switzerland, on May 11, 2025. (Stefan Wermuth / AFP)
April 18, 2026, 3:36 pm
Entertainment figures add names to letter rejecting calls to kick Israel out of Eurovision
Amy Schumer, Mila Kunis, Erin Foster, Matthew Weiner among those who say expulsion would be ‘inversion of justice’ as Israel responds to ‘greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust’
By ToI Staff
Protesters chant slogans and hold banners as they take part in a demonstration against Israel's campaign in Gaza, in Athens on September 20, 2025. (Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP)
February 19, 2026, 8:43 am
After weeks of debate, world social workers group won’t expel Israeli union
Irish, Spanish and Greek affiliates of International Federation of Social Workers had demanded Israeli social workers abstain from mandatory military service to remain
By Grace Gilson
President of the German Bundestag Julia Kloeckner meets with Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana (not pictured) during a welcome ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 11, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 12, 2026, 5:09 pm
German court again rejects suit over arms exports to Israel, as lawmaker visits Gaza
Palestinian sought to sue Berlin over weapons sales to Jerusalem; speaker of Berlin’s lower parliament visits IDF-controlled part of Gaza, calls for truce line not to become new border
By AFP
Rapper and reservist Noam Tsuriely in Gaza in December 2024. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2026, 7:27 am
Farewell, tour? Wary Israeli entertainers increasingly reluctant to face BDS abroad
As stonewalling from colleagues, protests outside performances and even threats of arrest aim to prevent the show from going on, some artists think it may be better to sit out 2026
By Jessica Steinberg
Zohran Mamdani stands with his mother Mira Nair and father Mahmood Mamdani as they celebrate during a primary election night gathering on June 24, 2025, in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)
January 3, 2026, 6:48 am
How the politics of Mamdani’s parents, both longtime BDS supporters, shaped NYC’s new mayor
Mahmood Mamdani boasted of being first faculty member to address 2024 encampment at Columbia; mayor’s wife has also made pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel advocacy a focal point of her art
By Grace Gilson
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at City Hall in New York, January 2, 2026. (AP/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
January 3, 2026, 12:24 am
Leading Jewish groups issue warning as Mamdani cuts antisemitism protections on first day
Unusually broad alliance of organizations criticizes NY mayor for revoking IHRA antisemitism definition, anti-BDS measure; US Holocaust Museum: Revocation ‘should alarm everyone’
By Luke Tress
Judy Chicago stands in front of one of her artworks entitled 'What if Women Ruled the World' during a press preview for the exhibition 'Judy Chicago: Revelations' at the Serpentine North gallery in London on May 21, 2024. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
November 29, 2025, 1:30 pm
Judy Chicago’s feminist art lands in Tel Aviv, igniting an anti-Israel boycott call
In ‘What If Women Ruled the World,’ on display through Dec. 27, the artist poses a question that hits home in a war-torn country predominantly led by males – though critics still loom large
By Karen Chernick
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