Rashida Tlaib Says Pompeo Moved to Suppress BDS

By Staff, Agencies

US Representative Rashida Tlaib [D-Mich.] took aim at both the outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his likely replacement, Antony Blinken over her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] movement and Palestinian rights.

When President-elect Joe Biden announced that his pick for Secretary of State was Blinken, one person tweeted their support, calling it a "solid pick." Tlaib responded that she agreed, as long as she could still call out "[Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's racist and inhumane policies."

Tlaib was also critical of Pompeo, decrying his decision to withdraw funding from groups that boycott the ‘Israeli’ occupation entity as a "slap in the face to the Palestinian people, while encouraging the incoming presidential administration to 'change course' in policy."

"Sec. Pompeo has moved to suppress BDS, a peaceful protest movement protected by the 1st Amendment. I hope that Mr. Blinken and President-elect Biden’s Administration will change course from Trump’s State Department & not target or suppress support of Palestinian human rights," Tlaib tweeted.