The BDS movement: An ongoing global struggle against the Israeli occupation

The BDS movement and the Palestinian Democratic convention in the Netherlands organized a stand of solidarity with the Palestinian people, rejecting all forms of Israeli criminal practices against the Palestinian people and the UAE and Bahraini denouncing of normalization with the israeli occupation.

Following the demands of the boycott movement, the Tel Aviv Documentary Film Festival 2020 (Dukaviv), which was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received a “painful hit” after recording four important withdrawals among the directors and participants in the jury or as guests of the festival.

The Palestinian National Committee for Boycotting Israel warned against engaging with the "People Daily" program, after it called on the participants to withdraw. AS The popular and national forces and actors called for a massive demonstration in “Ramallah and Al-Bireh” to reject normalization.

While In the statement of the Bahrain Society for Resisting Normalization with the Zionist enemy, the Federation called for not dealing with the agreement between the Bahraini and Israeli governments.

The Palestinian Council for Consumer Protection also mentioned the names of 5 companies listed on the ban list, namely: DanLog, Angel Bakery, Pisagot wine, and Rikati wine.

While Dozens of Arab artists have pledged to boycott the UAE regime, and the most prominent of them are: “Mai Masri, Hani Abu Asaad, Muhammad Bakri, Rashid Qureshi, Suleiman Mansour, Rima Tarazi, Nabil Anani, and Camelia Gibran.”

On the other hand, the BDS movement considered that taking pictures in the White House will neither lead to peace nor justice.

In the same context, BDS activists condemned the cooperation between the "RAED" Israel Institute and the Emirates University for Artificial Intelligence.

Also, Activists have denounced Hungary's position as the only country in the European Union that sent its foreign minister to the Emirati-Israeli normalization ceremony, and Greece's position for welcoming the agreement.

Activists also condemned the relations between the Israeli Bank "Hapoalim" and the UAE banks after the normalization agreement was signed with the start of the commercial delegations. They also condemned Abu Dhabi's directing of hotels to provide "Kushner" meals to the Israelis after normalization.

On the other hand, 80 Jewish associations submitted a joint statement to NEWSOM opposing ethnic studies in secondary schools of the Israeli occupation.

In a related context, activists called for turning the headquarters of the Arab League into a wedding hall because of its position and reservations about the Emirati and Bahraini normalization, after "Bahrainis against normalization" was published on Twitter after the Bahraini Jewish community welcomed normalization and considered it a "historic moment."

Also Yossi Cohen, Director of the Israeli “Mossad” intelligence agency said that there is an opportunity for normalization with Saudi Arabia in the near future, indicating that normalization with Saudi Arabia could take place during this year.