Ted Cruz, R-TX, blasted Biden’s administration for its anti-Israel boycott after it reversed President Donald Trump’s policy of allowing collaboration between U.S. institutions and Israeli institutions within Judea-Samaria. This was “outrageous”, “antisemitic”, and was a “reversal” of the Trump administration.

Cruz criticised the current administration in a statement issued on Sunday for “instigating a boycott of scientific and technological collaboration with Jews living Judea and Samaria.”

Cruz, who is also a senator and a member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Biden, his officials, and the president are “pathologically obsessive about undermining Israel”.

He wrote: “Since the first day of their administration, they have launched campaigns that are granular and whole government-wide, done in secret.”

He continued, “This new boycott against Israeli Jews is just another example.”

Cruz said that this move shows the State Department “telling all of the U.S. Government not to work with Jews in Judea-Samaria.”

He noted that “and of course, it was sent in secret to Congress and only revealed when reporters discovered,”

He contrasted this with the policy of the Chinese Communist Party, which “defended funding scientific research in Wuhan” but discriminates and prohibits cooperation with Jews based on their location.

He ended by promising to “do everything possible to reverse this ruling” as well as to “prohibit antisemitic bias by the U.S. Government in the future.”

Cruz had earlier tweeted that the move was “sadly predictable, but still absolutely outrageous.”

He added: “This is blatant, explicit and obsessive racism against Israeli Jews because of where they live or work.”

The Republican Jewish Coalition released a press release from former Senator, Norm Coleman. Norm Coleman and CEO Matt Brooks blasted the Biden administration for its “shortsighted” approach to foreign policy. They claimed that the “new low” was reached as a result.

The statement said: “Whether it’s pleading with terrorists in Tehran to get a bad deal on a nuclear power plant, ceding ground to China in the Middle East, or releasing a policy against antisemitism that undermines efforts codifying a clear definition of antisemitism., the Biden Administration continues to be an delight for the far-left radicals, and a disappointment for mainstream pro-Israel supporters.”

The Biden administration recently imposed a ban on U.S. tax payer funds being used for research and development projects or scientific collaboration in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank).

In 2020, Trump, continuing a series pro-Israeli measures, allowed American researchers to collaborate with Israeli institutions beyond the 1949 armistice, ending a boycott de facto that existed before Trump.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said earlier this month that Judea and Samaria were part of the Jewish ancestral homeland to which Jews had been tied for over 3,000 years. He also stated that the idea of prohibiting Jews from settling there was the real “obstacle” to peace.