Palestinian protesters together with International and Israeli activists enter a Rami Levi supermarket located in the Sha'ar Binyamin settlement, to protest against the Israeli occupation and to call for a boycott of illegal Israeli settlements, October 24, 2012. Rami Levi is the owner of a super market chain store, many of which are located in illegal Israeli settlements in the west bank; he himself finances development of illegal settlements and even owns several such as the Nof Zion illegal settlement in East Jerusalem.

Kuwait government boycotts 50 companies linked to occupation

Some of the companies include top corporate targets of the BDS movement, such as Volvo, Heidelberg Cement, Dexia, Pizzarotti, Alstom as well as Veolia. Veoliawas excluded from a huge 750 million dollar contract as well as “all future contracts.”

The Palestinian BDS National Committee has been working closely with BDS Kuwait since 2010 on advocating for accountability measures against international corporations that are complicit in Israeli violations.

A decision to implement such measures was made by a group of foreign ministers during a summit hosted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in August 2014 during the height of the Israeli massacre in Gaza. They decided to “impose political and economic sanctions on Israel, and boycott the corporations that operate in the colonial settlements.”