An Israeli settlement on the occupied Golan Heights has been named Trump Heights as a memorial to the outgoing US president's 2019 recognition of Israel's annexation of the Syrian territory. JERUSALEM: Mike Pompeo said he will make the first visit by a US secretary of state to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Thursday , after labelling the pro-Palestinian BDS movement an anti-Semitic"cancer".
"The simple recognition of this as part of Israel... was a decision President Trump made that is historically important and simply a recognition of the reality," he added.
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