BDS Victory: Iceland Boycotts ’Israeli’ Products

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Iceland's capital city has voted to boycott all "Israeli" products, in another victory for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the occupying entity.

Council members from the Reykjavik municipality approved the boycott of the apartheid entity's goods "as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues," local media reported.

The development comes as over 40 academics and activists from across the globe prepare to gather in Tunisia this summer to discuss how to further the growing movement to boycott "Israel".

Under the title "Boycott as a Strategy to Counter "Israel's" Occupation and Apartheid: Present-day Realities and Aspirations", the conference will be organized by the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies [ACRPS] in the capital city of Tunis from 4 to 6 August 2016.

It will discuss the re-emergence of boycotting as an expression of solidarity with Palestinians by the world community, allowing participants to share their experience and analysis concerning the global campaign to boycott "Israel" - known as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] - as a means to combat the occupation, which is gaining more momentum.

"This growing movement allows the Palestinians to take the reins of their national struggle, and to rebuild alliances with progressive forces around the world," read the upcoming event's background paper.

Initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005, BDS describes itself as a global movement of citizens that carries out and advocates for non-violent campaigns of boycotts, divestment and sanctions as a means to overcome the "Israeli" regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, as well as to achieve freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people.

The movement called on civil society around the world to launch broad boycotts, implement divestment initiatives, and to demand sanctions against "Israel", until Palestinian rights are recognized in full compliance with international law.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team