From the Oil Weapon to Boycott, Mobilizing in Support of Palestine in the Gulf
In 1973, members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) led an oil embargo against countries that supported Israel during the October War. Following the start of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, this history has also been invoked several times on Gulf Twitter (now X). On October 31, a commentator from Kuwait wrote, “10 Arab countries have oil, ten countries that have not yet agreed on a single word in favor of Gaza.”[1] On November 14, a resident of Qatar asked in a since deleted post, “Why are the Gulf countries not using oil and gas as a tool to stop the ...
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