Trump abandoned the US claim of neutral brokerage toward the Palestinians

Evidence

Trump unabashedly denounced Palestinians as terrorists, stating during his 2016 campaign that he would not be neutral toward Palestinians. As he put it, they have to “stop with the terror because what they’re doing with the missiles and with the stabbings and with all of the other things that they do, it’s horrible and it’s gotta end.” 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. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Trump’s unabashed labeling of Palestinians as terrorists accompanied abandoning refugee funding — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 537; Trump abandoned the good-bad Muslim distinction but Biden restores it

Broader Connections

• Trump’s unabashed labeling of Palestinians as terrorists accompanied abandoning refugee funding #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 537
• Trump abandoned the good-bad Muslim distinction but Biden restores it #expands (0.78)