Benjamin Netanyahu has met with UK cabinet office minister Matthew Hancock, praising Britain for publishing guidelines discouraging boycotts of Israel.
Hancock says they supported the measure “because we believe in an open and free trade and we believe that discrimination is not appropriate and should be stood up to.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Cabinet Minister, Matthew Hancock, in Jerusalem on February 17, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
Netanyahu compares efforts to boycott Israel to a long history of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the international community.
“In modern times, modern anti-Semitism not only attacks individual Jews, but attacks them collectively, and the slanders that were hurled over centuries against the Jewish people are now hurled against the Jewish state,” he says, according to a statement from his office.
“I want to commend the British government for refusing to discriminate against Israel and Israelis and I commend you for standing up for the one and only true democracy in the Middle East.”
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