Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that his country would consider the Palestinian-led boycott movement “anti-Semitic” and that any organization/institution participating in it would The government will stop receiving aid.
The U.S. move could reduce funding for Palestine and international human rights organizations. Pompeo announced the move during a visit to Israel. It is understood that for the first time, a US Secretary of State will visit the Israeli-occupied West Bank area.
Pompeo said he would also visit the Golan Heights. Significantly, during the war in 1967, Israel snatched this place from Syria. “We will consider the global, anti-Israel BDS movement” anti-Semitic, “Pompeo said, referring to the boycott, exposure and sanctions movement.
“We will take immediate steps to identify the organizations involved in the hate-mongering BDS movement and cut off support to such groups from the US government,” he said. He described the BDS movement as cancer and said that all the governments of the world should understand it in this way.
