In good faith and good luck, six new terrorist organizations were born last Friday.
Well, not exactly new nor exactly born, but now they have been defined as such, now they have been given the name.
After years of signs and warning lights, the Ministries of Defense and Justice have decided to define those Palestinian organizations that disguised themselves as human rights organizations as terrorist organizations affiliated with the Popular Front.
The new definition was not born at the moment.
This significant step was taken after a lengthy investigation and intelligence process of more than a year.
Most of the Israeli public probably does not know what this is about, but in the international arena as well as in the Israeli left it is an earthquake. These are six major Palestinian organizations, and among the areas of practice they have defined as their mission are also minors 'rights, agriculture, women's rights, prisoners' rights and more. What's more human rights than that? So the left has been busy for several days with an identification campaign for those organizations and for the activists within them. The moderate call from a minority from the left is a call for transparency and disclosure of the information and material on the basis of which the organizations were defined as terrorist organizations. This material is currently classified but is indeed a legitimate request, and even if it cannot be realized now, it is desirable that in the future the evidence of the close connection to terrorism be published. It is good that such things are exposed as much as possible: it is healthy both publicly and administratively.
What is illegitimate is the blind mobilization of most left-wing organizations in the country alongside those organizations that have been defined as terrorist organizations. Last week, a letter of public support was issued for the six organizations. Under the headline "Draconian move against human rights organizations", the best left-wing organizations declared that "the indictment of human rights organizations is a cowardly move typical of dark regimes". B'Tselem's CEO posted a picture of himself with Al-Haq's CEO, Shawan Jabarin, and announced that he was proudly standing by his side. The same Jabarin, the Supreme Court has ruled several times in the past, is "among the senior activists in the Popular Front terrorist organization."
"We are getting very close to a situation where Israel leaves the Palestinians no way to oppose the occupation by non-violent civilian means," the new director of the Israel Fund, Miki Gitzin, was naive. Secondly, because these are not civic organizations, these are organizations with innocent civic cover, which exploit human rights for a violent struggle in Israel.
The publicly known information about the involvement of these organizations in the murder of the girl did not make those left-wing activists think twice about cooperating with them.
So the Ministry of Defense announcement?
You made them laugh.
The Israeli public needs to strengthen Defense Minister Gantz on this important declaration, and at the same time need to condemn those left-wing activists who dress up in the concept of human rights, but in practice today, even officially, side with terrorists.