The office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a poster showing fighters being led by the late US-sanctioned Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani along with supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting Israel.
Omer Carmi, a PhD student at Tel Aviv University who covers Iran, tweeted a picture of the poster and wrote: “A new poster by Khamenei’s office, showing a march of 'freedom-fighters' led by Soleimani. It includes BDS activists, activists who oppose normalization w Israel, protesters against the Yemen war, people who protest against poverty & against limiting wearing Hijab in Europe.”
A new poster by Khamenei’s office, showing a march of “freedom-fighters” led by Soleimani.It includes BDS activists, activists who oppose normalization w Israel, protesters against the Yemen war, people who protest against poverty & against limiting wearing Hijab in Europe pic.twitter.com/5WTXDIavZY
— Omer Carmi (@CarmiOmer) October 6, 2021
There are also two signs in Arabic as part of the poster read “Normalization is for traitors, not for freemen,” and “No, no to America, America is the enemy of the nations.” According to the Iraqi expert, the “no, no” sign is an Iraqi slogan.
The Trump administration launched a drone strike against Qasem Soleimani in 2020, killing the man who was the commander of the Quds Force and responsible for the murders of over 600 Americans.
The Austrian and German parliaments classified the BDS campaign targeting Israel as antisemitic. The parliaments said the BDS movement recalls the Nazi movement's boycott of Jewish businesses during the 1930s.
Iran’s regime promotes BDS at the annual al-Quds Day rallies, which were called into global action in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s theocracy.
Al-Quds rallies urge the destruction of Israel and blanket Iranian cities and European capitals such as London and Vienna. Iranian-backed Islamists have marched together with an amalgam of neo-Nazis, BDS activists, political leftists, Hezbollah members and supporters of the US- and EU-designated terrorist entity the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.