BDS Movement: An International Occupation Movement

Human rights activists carried out an angry protest in front of the headquarters of “JCB” in Sheffield - Britain, to protest against the use of its heavy machinery and equipment in the demolition process in Jerusalem, raising the Title: "JCB shame on you."

Meanwhile, dozens of institutions, committees and youth gatherings launched a campaign under the title "Arab Against Normalization", which aims to counter the incursions of Arab delegations to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which are trying in vain to beautify the image of the occupation and decorate the normalization of the Arab peoples.

The representative in the US Congress who supports the boycott movement "Ilhan Omar" also condemned the ethnic cleansing that the Israeli occupation state is carrying out against the Palestinians.

For his part, the Kuwaiti Islamic thinker – “Tariq Sweidan” called for a boycott of Arab companies cooperating with "Israel" to incur losses due to their normalization with the Zionist enemy.

A number of human rights activists in France expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people against the "Israeli" apartheid wall, which contributes to separating Palestinian lands from each other and steals their lands.

In the same context, activists and human rights defenders condemned what was confirmed by the Bahrain News Agency that the Council of Ministers approved a memorandum of understanding with the "Israeli" government regarding air services between "the two countries". The agreement includes the announcement of the first direct "Bahraini - Israeli" flights, starting from January 31. / Next by two trips a week.

In a related development, a number of diplomatic speakers and policy-makers from European and Arab countries and dozens of political activists from the European continent participated in a symposium organized by the European Palestinian Communication Forum (European Forum). During which the participants called on the European Union to support and implement international law in relation to Palestine and to use the available mechanisms to hold the Zionist occupation accountable for its continuous violations of international law against the Palestinians.

Political parties, civil organizations, media and youth conglomerates and scholars announced the launch of the "Sudanese Popular Forces to Resist Normalization" group. The gathering, which was announced yesterday at a press conference in the capital “Khartoum”, includes 28 parties, blocs and organizations, the most prominent of which were the People's Congress Party, the Reform Now Movement, the Just Peace Forum, the Independent Youth Caucus, and the Sudan Scholars Association.

For his part, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided to establish a new mechanism through which the United States of America could announce anti-Semitic NGOs, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam, and a mechanism to stop financial support from it for its hostility towards the Israeli government. The US State Department announced that Pompeo would go to the Israeli occupation state, Saudi Arabia and Qatar regarding cooperation with the United States of America in establishing a culture of normalization to maintain peace and security in the Middle East region.

The Israeli Supreme Court refused to consider Tony Greenstein, the Jewish human rights activist who supports the boycott movement, anti-Semitic after he lodged a complaint against civil aviation the previous year, and he was expelled from the Labor Party as a result of this complaint.

Activists in the BDS movement also criticized Baha Hariri's interview with an Israeli journalist, Barak Rafid, who lives in Tel Aviv.

Activists in the boycott movement denounced what some American newspapers indicated that the winner of the American elections, the nominee for the Democratic Party, "Joe Biden", expressed his intention to encourage the normalization of relations between the Arab countries and the Israeli occupation state.

On the other hand, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, revealed the extent of the pressure that Pakistan is facing to recognize the Israeli occupation state, stressing his rejection of any decisions that do not satisfy the Palestinian side.