The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement posted on Monday a statement on its website calling on “content creators and influencers in the Arab region to boycott the upcoming Nas Daily program, which aims to implicate them in normalizing relations with Israel and cover up its crime”.

According to the movement, Nas Daily aims at training 80 Arab content creators in its academy, which is headed by an Israeli settler and funded by the New Media Academy, a digital training institution launched in June by United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

“This support by the Emirati authoritarian regime constitutes explicit complicity in the Israeli efforts to invade the minds of our peoples and polish the crimes of the Israeli colonial settler and apartheid regime, as well as the marketing of the shameful agreement that the regime concluded with the occupation,” it added.

Moreover, the movement said the program adopts projects that aim at promoting the colonization of Arabs’ minds and the Israeli colonization as a de facto status and whitewashing Israeli crimes and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

“While authoritarian Arabic regimes, such like those in the UAE and Bahrain, race to have normalization deals with the Israeli enemy, the latter is trying to hack the consciousness of the Arab peoples, which believe that its freedom, development, and struggle for justice are linked to the freedom of the Palestinian people and the right of return” , the movement said.

“Israel is allocating enormous sums of money for misleading normalization media campaigns that present non-political content, which shows Israel as a normal developed country that may help its Arab neighbors, ignoring all its crimes against the Palestinian people and the Arabs and the historic hostility with it as colonization and racist regime.”

The movement noted that Nas Daily has been trying to show the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a conflict between two powers of equal weight, ignoring the rights of the indigenous Palestinian people and the right of return and blaming Palestinians for not accepting “peace” as ‘Israel’ and the US present it.