The Zionist regime's military atrocities have prompted countries worldwide to consider reinvigorating the boycott campaign and sanctions on Israeli goods.
More players across the world are gradually joining the BDS campaign, launched in 2005, aiming to pressure the occupying regime economically to end the occupation of Palestinian lands, eliminate discrimination, and recognize the right of millions of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.
Some Western officials have also jumped on the bandwagon of sanctions, chief among them the Belgian government. A few weeks ago, Petra De Sutter, the deputy prime minister of Belgium, said, "We cannot sit idly by while children are killed every day in Gaza."
She stressed that now was the time to impose sanctions against Israel as raining bombs on civilians in Gaza was an inhumane act.
However, solidarity with Palestinians was most acutely expressed in Asian and Islamic countries. Amid the Gaza war last month, a number of Asian countries imposed sanctions on companies associated with the Zionist regime or those financially supporting it.
More than 22 countries have officially intensified sanctions against brands supporting the Israeli regime.
According to the Media reports in Jordan, pro-boycott residents sometimes enter McDonald's and Starbucks branches to encourage scarce customers to take their business elsewhere. Videos have circulated of what appear to be Israeli troops washing clothes with well-known detergent brands, which viewers are urged to boycott.
In Kuwait, a tour of seven branches of Starbucks, McDonald's, and KFC found them nearly empty.
In Indonesia, although many consumer goods are imported, many have lists of prohibited goods when shopping at supermarkets and shopping malls.
According to the media in Malaysia, the number of customers of McDonald's and KFC branches dropped about 20% in less than a month.
Many examples of Arab users' efforts to boycott Israeli goods can be seen in abundance on social media, with the names of some Israeli brands engraved on missiles landing on Gaza's children.
European countries, under the pressure of Tel Aviv, often seek to prevent the boycott campaigns by arresting protesters, and in some cases such as Germany, threatening to strip their citizenship and bringing accusations such as anti-Semitism against protesters.
In addition to boycotting Israeli brands, the campaign has also targeted investments in the occupied territories and has led to a complete withdrawal of some companies from trading with the Zionist regime.
Also, many business activists from all over the world who have been active in the occupied territories have left the lands for security reasons, and they are unlikely to think about returning to the occupied territories soon, for example, negotiations by Western oil companies with Tel Aviv to develop oil fields in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea have been suspended.
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