BDS renews call for boycotting Nas Daily over his efforts to support normalization

Occupied Palestine (QNN)- BoyCott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement renewed its call to boycott Nas Daily after a statement, calling for normalization and renewing support for ‘Israel’ and its ‘right to exist’ over the ruins of historic Palestine.

On Thursday, on his official Twitter, Nas wrote, “Peace between Palestine and Israel may be within our lifetime.”

Palestinian and pro-Palestine activists, however, responded to Nas by saying “No peace with the occupation.”

Nuseir Yassin, known by his Facebook name Nas Daily, has eight million followers on Facebook, over two million on Instagram and 1.6 million on YouTube since he started creating one-minute video clips in 2016.

On Saturday, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement renewed its calls to boycott Nas Daily.

In September, the BDS movement urged a boycott of training offered by Nas, saying the program aims to encourage normalisation with ‘Israel.’

In a statement, BDS said the program, which includes Israelis among the supervising and training staff, is funded by the UAE New Media Academy recently founded by Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashed.

It also urged “content creators and influencers in the Arab region to boycott the upcoming Nas Daily programme, which aims to implicate them in normalising relations with Israel and cover up its crime.”

“This support by the authoritarian Emirati regime constitutes an explicit complicity in the Israeli efforts to invade the minds of our people,” the BDS wrote, saying the academy aims to “whitewash the crimes of occupation and apartheid.”

The BDS also wrote, “Nas Daily, through its content, tries to portray the conflict with the Israeli enemy as if it is a struggle between two parties of equal force, deliberately ignoring the rights of the Palestinian people, chiefly the right of return.”

Despite the ongoing Israeli plans to annex the rest of the West Bank and displace native Palestinians, several Arab countries have recently announced normalizing ties with the occupation state. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the US President Donald Trump, called the deals “peace deals” while Palestinian officials called them a stab in the back of the Palestinian people and normalization of relations that have always existed under the table.

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