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Source: https://www.state.gov/un-office-of-the-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-database-report-release/
Pompeo Says List of Firms Doing Business in Settlements Shows UN's "Unrelenting Anti-Israel Bias"
(U.S. State Department) U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday: "I am outraged that High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet published a database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories. The United States has long opposed the creation or release of this database, which was mandated by the discredited UN Human Rights Council in 2016. Its publication only confirms the unrelenting anti-Israel bias so prevalent at the United Nations." "We call upon all UN member states to join us in rejecting this effort, which facilitates the discriminatory boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) campaign and delegitimizes Israel. Attempts to isolate Israel run counter to all of our efforts to build conditions conducive to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that lead to a comprehensive and enduring peace."