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PALESTINIANS cancelled a series of engagements with visiting London Mayor Boris Johnson yesterday after he called boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel “completely crazy.”
Mr Johnson had been set to meet young entrepreneurs and businesswomen, but the groups refused to talk to a man who failed “to acknowledge our very existence as Palestinians.”
The Tory MP is on a “diplomatic” tour of Israel and the Occupied Territories, where he met Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah.
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