By Rachel Mohamed This year's Olympic Summer Games hosted the contentious opening ceremony on Friday, 26 July for the first time outside of the stadium in the city of Paris, France. The event was seen by many as a historic moment for the spectators and the sports fraternity at large. However, the BDS coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Cape Town organization Usuf Chikte, have expressed their dissatisfaction against Israel, […]
Fourteen Republican US senators said they would work to delay confirmation of State Department officials unless the Biden administration reverses its “antisemitic boycott of Israel”. “It is untenable for State Department officials to continue testifying to Congress that they support the US-Israel relationship and then – once out of view – to push policies designed to undermine that relationship,” lawmakers that include Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, James Risch, Tom Cotton, and […]
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called on world leaders to boycott current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to pushing ahead with the judicial overhaul. Israeli media reported that this rare call for international intervention in Israel's affairs came amidst protests from tens of thousands of Israelis against the planned judicial overhaul. Olmert served as Israeli prime minister from 2006-2009. He was reported by Israeli Channel 12 encouraging global leaders to […]
The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations' International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, accusing it of human rights violations as a result of a boycott enacted last year. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt imposed a boycott on Qatar in June 2017, severing diplomatic and transport ties with the tiny, rich state, accusing it of supporting terrorism. Doha denies the allegations and […]
The calls for boycotting certain Spur franchises will hit the owners and employees of those branches the hardest, the corporation’s CEO says. In a statement released on Wednesday, Pierre van Tonder said the boycotts were affecting a minority of Spur branches in areas with "certain demographical characteristics". "Spur is however greatly concerned about the effect of the boycott on individual franchisees who are the hardest hit by this action and […]
Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Pizza Hut after the food company's Israel branch shared a picture on social media mocking the leader of a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons. The franchise's official Facebook page on Monday posted an image released earlier by Israeli prison authorities, allegedly showing Marwan Barhgouti breaking his hunger strike. Israel's Pizza Hut used the picture as an advertisement, writing on top of the […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
