Arab League to discuss reactivating Israeli boycott

The Arab League General Secretariat will host the 89th meeting next month to discuss and reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel, a senior official has revealed.

Commissioner General of the Arab League’s Central Office for the Boycott of Israel (OBI) Mohamed Sabih said in a press statement yesterday: “During the meeting, the OBI will discuss ways to reactivate the Arab boycott of Israel including a review of companies that violate provincials that prohibit dealing with Israel.”

The meeting, which is scheduled for 18-20 August in Cairo, Egypt, will focus on amendments to the general principles of the Arab boycott in order to activate it as a mechanism to express the Arab people’s “rejection of Israel’s practices and violations of Arab territories”, he added.

The meeting will address several memoranda relating to commercial and tourist steamboats and tankers that violate the principles of the Arab-Israeli boycott.

It will submit its findings and recommendations to the next Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in September.