The US officially classified support for BDS as anti-Semitism in 2020
Evidence
In his first year in office, the administration dropped Washington’s long-standing commitment to a two-state solution and a year later ended all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that provides services to five million Palestinian refugees. He cut another $200 million in funds to USAID programs that provided much-needed assistance, particularly in the Gaza Strip. In the final days of the administration, Netanyahu and the Israeli political class’s long-term efforts to equate criticism of Israeli policy with anti-Semitism was enshrined in a new classification of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. During a trip to Israel in 2020, former CIA director and secretary of state, Michael Pompeo, declared that the United States would henceforth categorize support for BDS as anti-Semitism, a stance warmly embraced by Netanyahu. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 525
Categorization
- CANDY: Pompeo’s 2020 declaration equating BDS support with anti-Semitism is a crisp, dated fact worth citing in conversation.
- SHARE: The UNRWA funding cutoff affecting five million refugees is a specific under-appreciated figure.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 525
- XREF: connects to: The US state classified BDS support as anti-Semitism, equating Israel criticism with Jew-hatred.
Broader Connections
- The US state classified BDS support as anti-Semitism, equating Israel criticism with Jew-hatred.
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