The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Marxist group, but it is working for the same goal as the jihad terror groups that are arrayed against Israel: the total destruction of the Jewish state. It is, effectively, an arm of the “Palestinian” jihad. It’s typical of the Leftist “human rights” organizations that they would champion such a person.
“Palestinian-French ‘human rights’ lawyer linked to Palestinian terror group,” JNS, October 3, 2022:
(October 3, 2022 / JNS) Salah Hamouri, the Palestinian-French lawyer and researcher who went on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment without charge by Israeli authorities for the past six months, has now been linked to a Palestinian terrorist group.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.- and E.U.-designated terrorist organization, inadvertently revealed on Sept. 25 that Hamouri—a lawyer and field researcher for the Palestinian NGO Addameer—is a member of the PFLP. Until now, Hamouri has strongly disputed such claims when Israel has leveled them….
The article on the official PFLP Lebanon website explicitly names Hamouri, as does a different article on the main PFLP website from Sept. 28.
Hamouri has been championed as a human rights defender by numerous NGOs and U.N. officials, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese and more….
Hamouri has served several prison sentences for his links to the PFLP. He was arrested in 2005 for planning a failed assassination attempt of Israel’s then-Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and was released in 2011 in the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The main distinguishing feature of the PFLP is that it’s a Christian Jihad organization, if such a thing was possible. As Hugh described in the past, Pali Christians are islamo-Christians, who’ve cast their lot w/ the muslims in the jihad against Israel. Not that it has saved them in places like Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho or Nablus. Christians make bizarre allies of muslims in places like Israel, India and Russia
gravenimage says
“Palestinian” Christians are not all like this, Infidel–but after centuries of dhimmitude all too many grimly are.
somehistory says
Any person who does this and calls himself/herself Christian, is deceiving self and any who take their word for their claims. True Christians do not commit crimes or engage in any terrorism.
gravenimage says
‘Human rights’ lawyer hailed by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International is member of terror group
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Nope–can’t even be shocked by this moral idiocy any more.
Human rights are absolutely key in any civilized society–but so often now they are used as a fig leaf to hide all sorts of violations of human rights. Grossly cynical. The only question is whether Human Rights Watch was ignorant and sloppy or–much worse–complicit here.
gravenimage says
OK–I just looked up Salah Hamouri’s ugly and extensive record, and there is *no way* that Human Rights Watch could have been ignorant of it. Among other things, in 2005 he was arrested for plotting the murder of then Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
mg says
yes…. plotting the murder of the leader of the Sephardic Israeli’s. And you’d think that would be the utter mark of shame for this guy… but no. It was all swept under the rug of
‘victimhood’ as if, ,as if it were anything of the sort.
And here he is and here they are and you’d think Human Rights Watch would be pillored and yet…. it will be swept under the rung of victimhood of the ‘colonized’.