Following UN Vote, Palestinians Vow to Expand Anti-Israel Boycott Movement

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The Jerusalem Post reports: The Palestinian leadership plans to expand its campaign against settlement activity, focusing on the boycott of settlement products and settlers, a top Palestinian official said.

“We will come back to the settlements issue…not only regarding the labeling of settlement products, but pertaining to the boycott of settlement products,” Riyad al-Maliki, the Palestinian Authority foreign minister told the Jordanian Al-Dustour newspaper on Thursday.

Maliki’s statement comes approximately two weeks after the UN Security Council passed a resolution critical of settlements, which said they “have no legal validity.”

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