Sen. Ted Cruz slammed President Joe Biden’s decision not to meet Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “utterly shameful.”
Appearing on Newsmax's "Eric Bolling The Balance" Wednesday, Cruz decried the Biden administration’s as the "most profoundly anti-Israel administration our country has ever had."
The Biden administration has taken a hawkish anti-Israel position as the Knesset moves to reform its judiciary, making it more accountable to the public.
Both the American and Israeli left has sought to censure Israel for its legislative efforts.
"At every level, they have systematically undermined the state of Israel. They have systematically worked to weaken the government of Israel," Cruz stated. "Joe Biden and his administration despises Prime Minister Netanyahu."
“I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu is a historic figure, I’ve told him this before, I think he has a Churchillian sense of the gravity as to the threats facing Israel and the threats facing America,” Cruz said.
Cruz noted that the administration is racing to provide Iran with tens of billions of dollars as it works to build a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu opposes lifting sanctions – and providing Iran with any financial windfall.
“The Biden administration has made clear [Netanyahu] is not welcome in the White House,” Cruz said.
He added that be denying a meeting with a democratic ally is “incredibly harmful to Israel and incredibly harmful to the United States.”
Meanwhile, the senator took issue with an administration policy that he claims embraces the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli occupation of territories in the West Bank.
"The Biden administration is now blocking scientific funds for cancer research in Israel because they've handed their agenda over to the radical, antisemitic left who hates Israel," Cruz said.
"And to see the president of the United States wrapping his arms around the extreme BDS movement is disgraceful."
His comments refer to a move by the Department of State last month advising agencies that "engaging in bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with Israel" in the West Bank "is inconsistent with U.S. foreign policy."
"This guidance is simply reflective of the longstanding U.S. position," a Pentagon spokesperson told Axios, adding that the U.S. was "working towards a negotiated two-state solution in which Israel lives in peace and security alongside a viable Palestinian state."
Cruz accused segments of the Democratic Party, like a group of progressives in the House called "The Squad," of making repeated "antisemitic attacks" and influencing Biden's agenda.
"What's happened under Biden is that they've given in to the antisemitic fervor of 'The Squad,'" he said.
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