BDS movement: continuous activity to expose Israeli practices
The "Zoom" application for video calls refused to use the application from the University of "San Francisco" to hold a seminar organized by the University's "Academic Program for Arab and Muslim Diaspora Studies" under the title "From narratives of gender, justice and resistance", due to the participation of the Palestinian revolutionary “Leila Khaled”
The BDS movement and the Palestinian Democratic convention in Netherlands organized a stand of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Centrum of the Dutch city of “Gröngen”, with the participation of Dutch institutions, Dutch and foreign activists and solidarity activists, and a number of members of the Palestinian community in the Netherlands.
The boycott movement also called on the United Nations General Assembly to investigate in the Israeli apartheid regime.
The boycott movement in Egypt "BDS Egypt" has renewed its demand for the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release a member of the Egyptian popular campaign to boycott "Israel" Muhammad al-Masri, who has been detained a year ago in Egyptian prisons, and his fellow detainee Rami Shaath, the campaign coordinator.
In turn, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) called for a boycott of the German company, “Puma”, which is a partner in polishing the crimes of the Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid regime against the Palestinian people, as it is involved in attempts to legalize Israeli settlements, with its sponsorship of the IFA Which includes in its ranks the clubs of Israeli colonies built on stolen Palestinian land, Also called for a boycott of the "Mohammed Bin Zayed University for Artificial Intelligence" after signing a normalization memorandum of understanding with the Israeli "Weizmann" Institute of Science, in line with the popular Arab position rejecting the UAE-Israeli treason agreement.
A group of Palestinian and Arab filmmakers, producers, actors and coordinators refused to announce the "Abu Dhabi Film Committee" and "Israeli Film Fund" agreement, which was signed under the pretext of strengthening cooperation in the film and television industry and promoting a culture of tolerance.
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece and Italy signed in Cairo the charter to convert the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum into a regional organization, which aims to include the Palestinian Authority to create a regional market for gas, rationalize the cost of infrastructure and provide competitive prices after the Israeli occupation represented ” in the signing ceremony its ambassador in egypt “Amira Oron, Accordingly, the Palestinian National Committee for Boycotting Israel had condemned the contribution of the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt to the "Eastern Mediterranean Gas Organization", in partnership with Israel and its European allies, and demanded popular pressure on the Palestinian Authority to withdraw from it completely
In a related development, the student government at the University of “Illinois” in Urbana-Champaign issued a decision calling on the university to withdraw its investments from Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar Inc., and Al-Bayt Systems Ltd. due to its participation in violating human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Activists in the boycott movement also condemned the prevention of the poetess Dhabia Khamis from leaving Dubai Airport, after her position which reject normalization between the UAE and the occupying state.
In another hand, “Rebecca Ram”, a soldier in the Israeli army, filed a lawsuit in a California court against “Suheir Nafal”, a BDS activist, for defamation and $ 6 million in compensation.