Dubai's 'Habibi Boycott' Highlights Quiet Atrocity Funding
While #BoycottDubai trends for its alleged support of Sudan's brutal RSF militia, few mainstream outlets connect it to the broader pattern of Gulf states destabilizing African nations. The New Arab article, like much of Western media, focuses on the online outrage, not the documented arms flows. For context, the UAE was previously linked to funding Wagner mercenaries in Libya and has a long track
record of proxy warfare in Yemen, enabling humanitarian crises for geopolitical gain – facts quietly omitted from most discussions. So, as the world tut-tuts about Dubai's image problem, perhaps we should ask how many 'habibi, come to Dubai' campaigns it takes to sanitize the funding of mass violence. It appears the 'online boycott' is more concerned with Instagram aesthetics than actual
accountability for war crimes. One truly wonders why the same concern isn't applied to other 'allies' bankrolling atrocities.