WATCH: London's Mayor Rips BDS Supporters as 'Lefty Academics With No Real Standing'
While in Tel Aviv Boris Johnson said, 'I cannot think of anything more foolish than to boycott a country that when all is said and done is the only democracy in the region, the only place that has in my view a pluralist open society.'
London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England September 30, 2014.Credit: Reuters
London Mayor Boris Johnson said in Tel Aviv that boycotting Israel is “foolish.”
Johnson, of the Conservative Party, also said Monday that those who advocate such a move make up “a very small minority.”
“I cannot think of anything more foolish” than to boycott “a country that when all is said and done is the only democracy in the region, the only place that has in my view a pluralist open society,” he said, The Associated Press reported.
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