WASHINGTON (MEMO) – A classified CIA report has revealed that no evidence has been found to support the Zionist regime’s decision to label six prominent Palestinian NGOs as “terrorist organizations”.
The agency was apparently handed intelligence by the Zionists about its designation earlier this year, but has dismissed the occupation regime’s claims about the Palestinian groups and concluded that the material investigated did not show any evidence to support the regime’s position.
A source familiar with the study is reported by the Guardian as saying that the CIA report “doesn’t say that the groups are guilty of anything.” A second source said that the assessment was highly classified.
U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration is now under pressure to make its position clear on the issue, especially as numerous countries, including allies of the Zionist regime, have rejected the terror designation of the Palestinian human right groups. The U.S., however, has not criticized or questioned the regime’s position publicly, despite there being no evidence to support the “terrorist” claim.
“The United States should very clearly call on Israel to reverse these designations, and to allow these organizations to continue their vital work,” said Omar Shakir, Palestine director of Human Rights Watch. “The reality here is that the United States has for too long turned a blind eye, and in some cases even green lighted, quite serious Israeli abuses.”
Shakir added that Washington’s position towards the Palestinian civil society organizations is part of a broader pattern of America’s failure to defend human rights. “The position towards the Palestinian human rights organizations highlights a much larger failing in U.S. government policy on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and puts the United States squarely out of touch with the consensus in the human rights movement.”
In October, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defence for Children International–Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees, were all designated as ‘terror organizations’ by the Zionist regime. There was speculation at the time that these groups were targeted for their work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) which has put the occupying regime under investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Near universal condemnation followed. European diplomats said that they found no evidence supporting the Zionist regime’s claim and those that temporarily cut funding to the Palestinian groups resumed payments soon after. Last month nine European countries expressed their refusal to stop cooperating with the Palestinian NGOs due to the lack of evidence proving the claim.
U.S. Congressman Rashida Tlaib has slammed the Zionist regime’s closure of the Palestinian human rights organizations in the occupied West Bank, describing it as a “ridiculous, unjustified attack”.
“These acts are a direct result of the Biden administration’s complete failure to defend Palestinian human rights against racism and ethnic cleansing,” Tlaib said in a statement on Monday, adding that “silence by our country is enabling more death and violence”.