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-- on January 14, Amnesty International (AI) called for a global arms embargo against Israel; the EU and European Commission announced a freeze in upgrading relations with Israel;
-- on January 16, Qatar closed Israel's trade office in Doha and gave Israeli officials a week to leave the country; Mauritania suspended trade relations as well;
-- on January 20, the Stockholm community council announced that the French company, Veolia, lost a future eight-year contract to build and maintain a railway through East Jerusalem that connects Israeli settlements in the West Bank;
-- on February 1, Belgium ended arms exports to Israel;
-- on February 5, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) dockworkers refused to offfload a ship carrying Israeli goods;
-- on February 9, 23 vicars encouraged the Church of England to divest;
-- on February 12, Hampshire College became the first US university to divest from companies involved with the Occupation;
-- on February 26, UK-based Cardiff University divested all shares from BAE Systems and GE's aerospace arm over their IDF dealings;
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