Bersatu Youth chief Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said today that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak should use his good ties with US president Donald Trump to express his objection towards the latter’s recognition of Jerusalem as the new capital of Israel.

Syed Saddiq, who earlier led a Harapan Youth delegation to submit a protest memorandum to the United States' embassy in Kuala Lumpur, pointed out that Najib himself had previously described Trump as a friend.

He noted that some people claimed that Najib had a “direct line” to contact Trump...