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Related: About this forumU.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS MAY 5, 2019 / 10:30 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO
U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy
Dan Williams
3 MIN READ
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to Israels existence as a homeland for the Jewish people - was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would fight it relentlessly.
The State Departments special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said this U.S. position could spell reviews of ties with foreign governments or leaders.
The United States is willing to review its relationship with any country, and certainly anti-Semitism on the part of a country with whom we have relations is a deep concern, he told Reuters during a visit to Israel.
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U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy
Dan Williams
3 MIN READ
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to Israels existence as a homeland for the Jewish people - was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would fight it relentlessly.
The State Departments special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said this U.S. position could spell reviews of ties with foreign governments or leaders.
The United States is willing to review its relationship with any country, and certainly anti-Semitism on the part of a country with whom we have relations is a deep concern, he told Reuters during a visit to Israel.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-antisemitism/u-s-may-review-ties-with-countries-deemed-anti-israel-envoy-idUSKCN1SB0FI
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U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2019
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sabbat hunter
(6,893 posts)1. you can be
critical of Israel without being 'anti zionist/antiIsrael"
However often anti-Israel is really anti-Semitism in disguise.
But we have to be sure not to conflate criticism of israel with being 'anti-israel'
The Mouth
(3,285 posts)2. If you support a group or a nation that denies Israel's very right to exist
I can't see how that would be much different than anti-Semitism.
Criticism of the government is legit, criticism of the existence of the state is not, IMHO.