Thread by @emanumiller

Numerous headlines in recent days have decried Israel's move to designate "Palestinian human rights groups" as terror organisations.

Unfortunately, much of the coverage gets the story backward, accepting at face value that these really are Palestinian human rights organisations.

Let's start with @Addameer. In 1969, a #PFLP terror cell blew up a Jerusalem supermarket. Two Jews, Leon Kanner and Eduard Jaffe, were killed. The @Jerusalem_Post reported that Yacoub Odeh "was instrumental... in planning the acts of sabotage and in preparing the explosives."

Yacoub Odeh is a convicted #terrorist.

Odeh is also an @Addameer board member. He has been described as a "retired teacher," "refugee" and "retired tour guide" and even a "gentle soul" in media reports, without any reference to his murderous past.

Odeh is not alone.

Former @Addameer vice-chairperson Khalida Jarrar was convicted for inciting violence through a call to kidnap Israeli soldiers to be used as “bargaining chips for the release of Palestinian prisoners.”

According to an article in @Haaretz, “The court noted that Jarrar was not being tried for being a member of the Palestinian parliament but rather for her activity in the PFLP.”
haaretz.com/israel-news/pa…

Until October 2019, @Addameer’s Arabic website listed Salah Hamouri as a field researcher. In 2005, Hamouri was arrested and convicted of plotting to assassinate former Israeli Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

ynet.co.il/articles/0,734…

In fact, according to Palestinian political faction Fatah, @Addameer itself is an affiliate of the #PFLP.

web.archive.org/web/2015092401…

No wonder then, that the @UN refused @Addameer’s request for Special Consultative Status due to the group’s relationship to the #PFLP.

un.org/press/en/2012/…

Numerous other groups feature on the list.

The following content, mostly curated from the @NGOmonitor website, shows why they cannot simply be called "human rights groups."

Al Haq: In May 2018, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express shut down online credit card donations to @alhaq_org due to the group’s ties to the PFLP.

In fact, the group was founded by #PFLP members.
uklfi.com/credit-card-do…

Bisan: According to Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service, Itiraf Hajaj, previously named as #Bisan's executive director for research and development, was responsible for #PFLP clandestine operations.

A doctoral dissertation authored by Sbeih Sbeih and published by the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines notes that “some [NGOs], because of their link to #PFLP, opposed the Oslo Accords. Such was the case of Bisan.”

The same dissertation refers to Izzat Abdulhadi, a former director of Bisan, as a #PFLP member.
tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01220122v2…

Defense for Children International-Palestine (@DCIPalestine):

Numerous individuals with alleged ties to the PFLP terrorist organization have been employed and appointed as board members at DCI-P.

In September 2014, after the death of Hashem Abu Maria, coordinator of DCI-P’s community mobilization unit, the PFLP repeatedly honoured Abu Maria as its “martyr.” His memorial service featured numerous #PFLP flags, posters, and pictures of prominent PFLP figures.

.@DCIPalestine treasurer Yaser Amouri has posted in support of terrorists who attacked Israeli civilians and police officers, as well as glorified leaders of other terrorist organizations.

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On June 26, 2018, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) announced that after presenting evidence of the close ties between @DCIPalestine and the #PFLP to Citibank and Arab Bank PLC: “these banks no longer provide banking services to the terror linked NGO.”

Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC):

An investigation commissioned by the United States Agency of International Development (@USAID) described the UPWC as the “women’s organization” of the PFLP.
pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABY…
ngo-monitor.org/ngos/union-of-…

Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC):

The same @USAID-commissioned investigation described the @UAWC1986 as being the agricultural arm of the PFLP.
pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABY…

On August 23, 2019, two @UAWC1986 employees carried out a particularly brutal terror attack in which they injured Rabbi Eitan Shnerb (46) and his son, Dvir (19), and murdered his daughter, Rina (17).

timesofisrael.com/israel-release…

The @UAWC1986 employees were closely linked to the #PFLP.

The Dutch government, one of @UAWC1986’s European sponsors, admitted that part of a Dutch aid package was used to pay the salaries of two UAWC employees who were charged with murdering Rina Shnerb.
ejpress.org/the-dutch-gove…

Far from denying the connection, on August 30, 2020, the #PFLP released a statement confirming that former @UAWC1986 director, Samer Arbid, is also a PFLP commander and was involved in the terror attack that murdered Rina Shnerb.

cidi.nl/wp-content/upl…

If all that wasn't enough, this video, courtesy of @NGOmonitor, shows employees of multiple Palestinian "human rights organisations" at a #PFLP event in Ramallah in 2020:

This is just a partial list, but it's clear that two of these organisations have clear connections to people involved in terror attacks that left Jews dead. Others are tied to individuals closely linked to the #PFLP terror group.

Now, I'm not one of those who rage against the "mainstream media" or believe that journalists are inherently hostile to Israel.

Many are not. Many are hard-working, honest professionals.

But that doesn't mean their work is beyond reasonable reproach.

To be frank, this is a whopping great blind spot and it's incredible that the media as a whole simply refuse to acknowledge the possibility that these "human rights organisations" are effectively a front for terror groups.

This is all the more galling given that so many incriminating facts are already publicly available, and have caused European banks, European states and @USAID to cut ties with these organisations.

The evidence has existed for years. Just see this 1993 report, prepared for @USAID, which literally lists the #PFLP origins of some of the Palestinian NGOs that Israel is now blacklisting.

Unfortunately, once again, Israel finds itself on the defensive when the ones who should be in the dock are those terror-linked organisations which abuse the name of "human rights" to demonise Israel.

So, so frustrating to see journalists accept the false Palestinian narrative.

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