Dear editor,
The outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to classify any criticism of Israel’s war crimes as anti-Semitic. So it will be an offense to support human rights and international law. The new plan will equate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism as an attempt to silence pro-Palestinian advocates. That takes a very twisted mind to come up with such a plan.
Pompeo’s plan will affect NGO groups like Amenisty Internation and Human Rights Watch by cutting their funding. Other pro-Palestinian organizations abroad will also be targeted. Sec. Pompeo needs to educate himself on the U.S. Constitution because his plan infringes on people’s right to freedom of expression. I am even surprised yet that there is no outcry from the defender of free speech.
Rabbi Alissa Wise, Dupting Director of Jewish Voice for Peace summed up the plan in one sentence: ” This would be a disaster for Palestinians, the Palestinian rights movement, and all those endangered by white nationalism and real antisemitism.”
For that and more, I am awarding the golden kippah to Pompeo for being Israel’s most faithful bitch. Thankfully, Sec. Pompeo will be leaving his post in less than 100 weeks.
Goodbye and good riddance, Mike Pompeo
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
