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Israel designates 6 Palestinian rights groups as terrorist organizations, irking US and infuriating human rights orgs
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/24/israel/israel-designates-6-palestinian-rights-groups-as-terrorist-organizations-irking-us-and-human-rights-orgs

(JTA) — Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that Israel's government will consider six leading Palestinian rights organizations operating in the West Bank as terrorist groups, prompting its first public spat with the Biden administration.

The groups include some of the leading Palestinian civil society groups advocating for farmworkers, women, children, and Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.

Gantz called out their alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group designated by the U.S. and others as a terrorist group. The PFLP was responsible for a string of plane hijackings in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the groups named by Gantz have been dogged by accusations from Israeli groups of ties to the PFLP for years.

By designating the groups as terrorist organizations, Israel can close the organizations' offices, seize their assets and effectively stop donations to the groups. The groups named are Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center, Defense for Children International Palestine, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees.

Speaking to reporters Friday, Ned Price, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said the Biden administration will ask Israel to clarify its reasons for the decision. He also said the Israeli government "did not give us advance warning" about the announcement.

An anonymous official in Israel's Defense Ministry disputed that claim to The Times of Israel on Saturday.

"Officials in the American administration were updated in advance of the intention to make this declaration and they received intelligence information about the matter," the official said.

In the same State Department briefing, Price also criticized Israel's announcement that it would begin building thousands of new homes for Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

Several human rights organizations around the world condemned Gantz's announcement on Friday.

"This appalling and unjust decision is an attack by the Israeli government on the international human rights movement. For decades, Israeli authorities have systematically sought to muzzle human rights monitoring and punish those who criticize its repressive rule over Palestinians," the organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement.

New Israel Fund, a progressive Jewish organization operating in Israel and the United States, called the announcement "repressive."

"At a time when both Palestinians and Israelis need civil society to work overtime, we stand with all those who work to hold their governments to account," the group said.

At the same time, organizations that had advocated for the designation for years celebrated.

"The Israeli announcement confirms what our research has shown years – this time 6 Palestinian NGOs were designated as terrorist organizations as part of the PFLP network. All are funded by European gov'ts and deeply involved in political warfare against Israel," NGO Monitor, an Israeli organization that publishes reports on non-governmental organizations that work on Israel-Palestine related matters, said in a tweet.

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Israeli ministers in war of words over 'problematic' move to brand Palestinian NGOs as terror organizations – reports
https://www.rt.com/news/538508-israel-ministers-infighting-palestinian-ngos/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Israel's decision to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist outfits has prompted infighting among ministers as members of the country's fragile coalition government criticized the move as "detrimental" to national interests.

On Friday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz had signed an order that categorized the civil society groups in the West Bank as terrorist organizations – on the basis of classified findings by the country's Shin Bet security service which allegedly showed that these groups were part of a network run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) militant group.

Center-left members of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government have denounced the move, with Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli – who leads the coalition partner Labor Party – blasting the "manner" in which it was rolled out as having "caused great damage to our relationships with our biggest and most important friends."

The minister was referring to both international condemnation over the decision and the accusations by US government officials that they were not informed beforehand. According to the Haaretz newspaper, Shin Bet and Defense Ministry representatives are expected to fly to Washington in order to present to the Biden administration "unambiguous" evidence of terror links.

Speaking at a party meeting on Monday, Michaeli said the fallout from the move could be "detrimental to Israel's interests" and stressed that decisions of this nature "must be done with proper preparation" and "with the greatest trepidation, only if we are certain there is truly no other way."

However, Gantz's Kahol Lavan party issued a strong rebuke, telling Michaeli to not "interfere with the war on terror" since she "doesn't know the details". The statement was then branded as "chauvinist" by Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg, from the left-wing Meretz party, in a radio interview on Tuesday. Zandberg had previously called the decision "grave" and said his party would demand "clarifications."

I think it is chauvinist to say to a woman who is a member of the Security Cabinet: 'don't interfere, you don't understand anything.

In another interview, Welfare Minister Meir Cohen, from the Yesh Atid party, said that the attack on Michaeli was "unnecessary" and backed the Labor leader to "say whatever she sees fit". But Cohen also added that such infighting "will not bring down the government".

Bennett's coalition government is composed of eight parties from across the political spectrum and the Arab Islamist party, also known as Ra'am. It has only a slim majority in the 120-seat Knesset. In recent weeks, Bennett has asked cabinet members to not "rock the boat" in order to pass the national budget before a November 14 deadline – failing which the government will automatically dissolve.

Over the weekend, members of the Meretz party had criticized the Defense Ministry move with party leader and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz describing it as a "problematic matter" with "implications... for human rights and democracy".

The NGOs designated as terror outfits included a number of prominent organizations with significant backing and oversight from the EU and other international bodies. Named in the announcement were the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees; ADDAMEER – Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association; Bisan Center for Research and Development; al-Haq Organization; Defense for Children International – Palestine; and the Union Of Agricultural Work Committees.

Although the supposed evidence against the groups remains classified, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who said he was "presented" with the intelligence, claimed the "decision had to be made" since there were apparently "very bad people taking advantage of the good ones" in these organizations. Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked of Bennett's right-wing Yamina party also praised the decision as being based on "firm intelligence information".