The international campaign to boycott Israel - BDS is gaining increasing global support and Israel is moving to combat it

Israel organised a rally on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly hall to explore ways of combating what has become a major threat to the Jewish state - something called BDS. It stands for boycott disinvestment and sanctions, and it's an international campaign that targets universities and businesses with links to Israel. We hear from Omar Barghouti who is behind the BDS movement and from Yiftah Curiel the spokesman for the Israeli embassy here in London.

On 23 June, people in Britain will vote on whether they want to stay in the European Union. Two opinion polls in recent days have suggested a vote to leave the European Union is now very possible. Alex Ritson brought two leading economists in the debate together in an attempt to find out the truth. For the remain side, professor John Van Reenan from the London School of Economics - and making the case for Brexit, Roger Bootle of Capital Economics.

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Roger Hearing will be joined throughout the programme by Alison Van Diggelen of Fresh Dialogues from California, and Simon Long, Asia editor of The Economist, from Singapore.

(Photo: A pro-Palestinian protester holds a placard reading BDS - Boycotts, divestment and sanctions. Credit: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)