Mike Pompeo: State Department will defund BDS ‘cancer’

Published November 19, 2020 7:11pm ET



Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is launching a review of State Department assistance to foreign entities to cut U.S. funding where it indirectly supports the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement targeting Israel.

“We will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful BDS conduct, and withdraw U.S. government support for such groups,” Pompeo said Thursday in Israel. “We want to stand with all other nations that recognize the BDS movement for the cancer that it is, and we’re committed to combating it.”

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