Boycott campaign deals heavy blow to Israeli occupation

AhlulBayt News Agency - The Palestinian Office for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement kept record of the success achieved by the boycott-of-Israel campaign, both nationwide and overseas.  

In a report, the office said the decisions opted for by the Fifth Extraordinary Islamic Summit to boycott Israeli settlement products and those advocated by the BDS movement have scored golden goals in the international arena over recent months.

It added that as a result of the success of the boycott-of-Israel campaign the Israeli occupation has adopted a series of arbitrary measures to prevent Palestinians’ access to local products, including milk and meat, both in Occupied Jerusalem and 1948 Occupied Palestine.

University College London (UCL) announced its academic boycott of Israeli institutions and colleges. A similar move was made by the British guard company (G4S), which provides services for the occupation army and recruits around 8,000 Palestinian employees.

A Spanish mayor in the Valencia province also decided to join BDS campaign in response to Israeli violations of Palestinians’ human rights and infringement of international laws.

The Fifth Extraordinary Islamic Summit, concluded in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, called on all member states and the international community to ban the products of Israeli illegal settlements from their markets and to take measures against entities and individuals involved in and/or taking advantage of the advancement of the occupation and settlement regime.

The summit further called for including Israeli settler leaders in the blacklist of terrorists and criminals to be brought before international justice.

The Palestinian Society for Consumer Protection in the West Bank also called on the Palestinian Authority to stop promoting Israeli products in the Palestinian market and to mobilize support, among Palestinian traders and distributors, for the boycott campaign.  




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