Boycott of Israeli products begins in WB

Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank have begun to boycott Israeli products with shops no longer carry the products of six major Israeli food companies, Qods News Agency reports.

Activists in the Fatah movement announced the boycott plans last month, after Israel halted transfer of vital tax revenues to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.

Campaign leader Abdullah Kmail said Sunday that 80 percent of shops no longer carry the products, according to abcnews.

He said shopkeepers were given extra time to sell the remaining goods and that no products were seized.
 
Palestinian activists tried before to get consumers to shun Israeli products, with little success. The current campaign appears more effective, in part because of changing public mood.