(B'nai Brith Canada) David Matas - The Government of Israel designated in October 2021 as terrorist organizations and closed in August 2022 six NGOs due to their ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), designated by Israel, Canada and many other countries as a terrorist organization. It is common for terrorist organizations to work through associated entities in order to escape the rigors of the terrorist designation. Under the Canadian Regulations Implementing the UN Resolutions on the Suppression of Terrorism, any entity listed as terrorist can ask the Government to be delisted. Israel has similar legal provisions to allow for the challenge of listing. None of the six designated entities has invoked this delisting procedure. The failure of the six designated organizations to invoke legal remedies open to them raises a different question - whether Canada and other countries should also be listing these organizations as terrorist entities. The writer is senior counsel to B'nai Brith Canada.
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