The BDS movement is very strong in Belgium and is seldom, if ever, challenged. L'
Association Belgo-Palestinienne Wallonie-Bruxelles, which promotes the boycott of Israel and the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state, get funds from the Government. It was created in 1975 - 41 one years ago. It's very likely the oldest anti-Israel NGO in Europe.
The University of Brussels has a BDS committee fully dedicated to the vilification of Israel and is also probably the only such outfit sponsored by a university in Europe...
From Ynet News:
Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines has stopped handing out Ahva
brand halva snacks on flights following a request by the Palestine
Solidarity Movement.
The snack is produced in the Barkan industrial park in the West Bank on land the organization claims is "illegally occupied."
The halva snack was discovered by a Palestine Solidarity Movement
activist who was travelling from Ben Gurion Interantional Airport to
Brussels and saw the product as a dessert option, realized it was
produced in Israel, and told fellow activists to take action. The
activists complained to the airline which quickly acquiesced to the
request.
The official reason given by the airline regarding the decision not
to serve the product is because the product is produced on illegally
occupied land in the West Bank.
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