US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Washington will label the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) as ‘anti-Semitic’.
In a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Pompeo described the movement which seeks to isolate the Zionist entity over its treatment of the Palestinians, a ‘cancer’.
Washington “will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic… We want to stand with all other nations that recognize the BDS movement for the cancer that it,” Pompeo said, as quoted by AFP.
Netanyahu interjected that the policy is “simply wonderful.”
Pompeo listed the many policies related to Israel that he and the Trump administration promoted in recent years, saying that they’ve “done incredible things.”
“The simple fact of recognizing the reality of Jerusalem as the rightful, proper, true capital of Israel – it’s crazy that the US hadn’t done that for decades,” Pompeo said. “Then we moved embassy. How simple, how right, how just.”
Pompeo said that the State Department’s new policy of viewing the settlements as “not necessarily illegal reversed a view [that] didn’t recognize the history of this special place.”
The Secretary of State also expressed ‘pride’ in the Abraham Accords and said he is “hopeful and confident there will be more Arab countries establishing ties with Israel.”
“This will continue, because people are demanding peace. People are coming to me from all over the region, recognizing that the right thing to do is to recognize Israel…I am confident that this one-way movement towards peace will continue,” he said, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Source: Agencies and Israeli media
