Jerusalem — The US may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a US envoy says is a shift in policy towards equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism — opposition to Israel's existence as a homeland for the Jewish people — was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would “fight it relentlessly”. The state department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said this US position could spell reviews of ties with foreign governments or leaders. “The US is willing to review its relationship with any country, and certainly anti-Semitism on the part of a country with whom we have relations is a deep concern,” he said during a visit to Israel. “I will be raising that issue in bilateral meetings that I am undertaking all over the world,” he said. “That is something we are going to have frank...
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