AMSTERDAM (AA) – Major technology companies, defense contractors, and retail chains are under increasing scrutiny and facing boycott campaigns for their direct and indirect support of Israel’s war on Gaza, amid escalating concerns regarding corporate complicity in genocide. As part of Anadolu Ajansi’s series ‘Silent Supporters of Israeli...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
German sportswear company Adidas is under fire after dropping American-Palestinian model Bella Hadid from its retro shoe campaign. The move follows criticism from Israel due to Hadid’s vocal support for Palestinian rights. In response, Hadid has hired legal representation, and social media users are calling for a boycott of the brand. Adidas h...
Frankfurt, Germany — AFP Germany has said that calls to boycott Israeli artists at the Eurovision song contest were “unacceptable”, after demonstrators in host country Sweden protested against Israeli participation due to its ongoing genocidal military campaign in Gaza. Israeli singer Eden Golan qualified Thursday for this we...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Hundreds of lawyers in Bangladesh have boycotted courts as part of the “non-cooperation movement” called by the opposition parties. Bangladesh will hold the 12th parliamentary elections on January 7. The opposition parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced boycotting the Sunday electio...
LONDON (AA) – Activists from Scotland have condemned Israel’s war on Gaza as “genocide” and “war crimes,” calling out Western nations for their hypocrisy, double standards and reluctance to stop the deadly assault on Palestinians. What’s happening now in the Gaza Strip is “absolutely genocide,” Muna Ausat, a member of the Scottish Palestine So...
ANKARA (AA) – France is not boycotting African artists, the country’s culture minister has said in response to reports of an order to stop cooperation. French broadcaster BFMTV had reported that a government letter sent to the authorities on Thursday asked to stop collaboration with artists from Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. “I am extrem...
