Deputy Chairman of the World Zionist Organization, Yaakov Haguel, responded to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's statement that the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is a "right-wing movement."
"In the days when anti-Semitism is raising its head in the United States, the mayor of New York is wrong and deceptive, unfortunately, today's anti-Semitism is not only right but also left - the motives of the boycott organizations against Israel are completely antisemitic. Creative efforts to combat the horrific phenomenon that has accompanied us for years, under political names and views to the left as from the right, "said Haguel.