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Eugene

(62,627 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 04:09 PM May 2019

U.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 Israel’s 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 Department’s 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 OP
you can be sabbat hunter May 2019 #1
If you support a group or a nation that denies Israel's very right to exist The Mouth May 2019 #2
+1 Mosby May 2019 #3

sabbat hunter

(6,891 posts)
1. you can be
Sun May 5, 2019, 09:50 PM
May 2019

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

(3,281 posts)
2. If you support a group or a nation that denies Israel's very right to exist
Mon May 6, 2019, 10:30 AM
May 2019

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.

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