US to label Israel boycott movement as ‘anti-Semitic’: Pompeo

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators carrying a sign reading "DBS" which stands for Divestment, Boycott, and Sanctions. (File/AFP)

JERUSALEM: The US will label the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which seeks to isolate Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians, as anti-Semitic, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, calling the movement “a cancer.”
Washington “will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic... We want to stand with all other nations that recognize the BDS movement for the cancer that it is,” Pompeo said in a joint appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nentayhu.