Report (128) of the Boycott Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Report (128) of the Boycott Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

At the level of international organisations

2U+2I alliance:

§ A group of bilateral business councils announced a new initiative to promote the "2U + 2I" cooperative agreement between Israel, India, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

Amnesty International:

§ Amnesty has joined a coalition of civil society organizations calling on the United Nations not to endorse a proposal that uses anti-Semitism to suppress criticism of human rights violations by the Israeli occupying state.

At the international level:

United States of America:

§ Hundreds of residents of the American city of Houston called on the Baker Institute for Public Policy to cancel the "Israel @ 75" conference, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Israeli occupation state, which is effectively the Nakba Day of the Palestinian people.

§ The US Congress passed a resolution renewing the United States' support for the Israeli occupation state, and working to expand normalization agreements with Arab countries.

§ A poll conducted by the University of Maryland in the United States showed that the support of Democratic voters for the Israeli occupation state continued to decline.

§ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a House bill to provide law enforcement agencies with mechanisms to punish perpetrators of anti-Semitic incidents.

Canada:

§ The boycott movement in Quebec, Canada, called for a boycott of illegal Israeli settlement products.

§ Canadian Member of Parliament, Heather McPherson, called on Trudeau's government to punish the Israeli occupation state urgently, stressing that "Israel" is practicing various crimes against the Palestinian people, most notably the crime of apartheid.

Britain:

§ The British magazine "The Economist" confirmed the decline in the percentage of Emiratis who view the normalization agreement as positive, in a report on the Arabs' refusal to normalize relations with the Israeli occupation state.

§ A symposium held in the British Parliament warned of the dangers of the British government enacting an anti-boycott law. The symposium was organized by the EuroPal Forum.

France:

§ The boycott movement has renewed its call to boycott the French insurance company, AXA, because of its investments in Israeli banks that support Israeli settlement projects on the occupied Palestinian territories.

Germany:

§ A German court canceled the decision to ban a concert that was scheduled in Frankfurt, for the musician supporting the Palestinian cause, Roger Waters, after he filed a lawsuit against the decision of the city government and the state of Hesse to cancel the concert.

Norway:

§ The Norwegian capital, Oslo, announced a ban on importing goods and services of companies that contribute directly or indirectly to the illegal Israeli settlements.

Finland:

§ The Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art "Kiasma", in Helsinki, has ended its relationship with the Finnish-British businessman, Bojo Zabludovich, who supports the Israeli occupation state.

Ireland:

§ The Irish-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign confirmed that it succeeded in forcing the European Commission to discuss banning trade with illegal Zionist settlements.

New Zealand:

§ The Palestine Solidarity Network in Aotearoa announced that the annual Doc Edge Documentary Film Festival will abandon the support provided by the Israeli Embassy in New Zealand.

Turkmenistan:

§ The Israeli occupation state opened its first embassy in Turkmenistan with the participation of Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his counterpart Rashid Meredov. The ceremony was attended by a number of foreign ambassadors accredited to Ashgabat and a number of representatives of the local Jewish community.

Nigeria:

§ The first flight departed from Lagos Airport in Nigeria towards Ben Gurion Airport.

Iran:

§ The military commander in southeastern Iran, Brigadier General Amir Ghulam Alian, confirmed that Tehran will punish any country that grants the Israeli occupation state a military base on its territory.

South Africa:

§ Rugby union's global governing body has acknowledged that South African Rugby Union's decision to exclude the Tel Aviv Heat from participating in the Mzansi tournament was not racist.

On the Arab level:

The UAE:

§ Researchers at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with the Emirates Institute for Technological Innovation, are leading a collective project to develop "quantum computing".

§ The UAE Ministry of Interior pledged to hold a person named, Walid Al-Mutairi, accountable, on the pretext that he shouted phrases in support of the Palestinian cause in front of a number of Israeli travelers, while they were at Dubai airport.

Tunisia:

§ Non-governmental organizations and associations and a group of social activists in Tunisia signed a national petition rejecting academic normalization with the Israeli occupation state.

Lebanon:

§ The “Palestinian Association for Youth and Sports in Lebanon” condemned the participation of a number of Lebanese tennis players in a friendly tournament for age groups in Greece, in the presence of players from the Israeli occupation state.