The Biden administration has reportedly reversed the U.S. policy of funding research in Israeli neighborhoods in the West Bank.
Israel confirmed the news as its foreign minister, Eli Cohen, decried this development.
“I object to the decision and think it is wrong,” he said during a press conference. “In similar cases in the past, the Israeli government fully reimbursed parties damaged by such decisions.”
The Trump administration in October 2020 lifted the U.S. ban on funding research in Israeli areas of the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria.
“The Trump vision … opens Judea and Samaria to academic, commercial and scientific engagement with the United States,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the time….