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Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/elan-carr-bds-settlements-antisemitic-envoy
U.S. Envoy: Boycotting Israel Is Anti-Semitic
(Middle East Eye-UK) Ali Harb - Elan Carr, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, told the Heritage Foundation on Friday: "Boycotts, isolation, de-legitimization, that's not the way you get peace. That's not the way you solve any conflict in the world. And so those who want to boycott Israel in effect are isolating Israel, and that's not coexistence. That's not peace. That's not how you get to a better world." "Let's talk about anti-Semitism. Why is it that we say very clearly now, BDS is a manifestation of anti-Semitism? Then we define BDS, by the way, as boycotts not only of Israel, but of territories that Israel controls. Because typically these boycotters of Israel don't boycott anybody else. And you know, there are horrendous human rights abusers in the world. Israel is not one of them." When "you focus on the one Jewish state...target Israel for unique opprobrium and sanctions and boycotts, well that's anti-Semitism, pure and simple....We've been very clear that hatred of the Jewish state is hatred of the Jewish people."