Campaign To Remove "Terrorist" Designations
In the European Union, Canada and the United States, numerous organizations - including many national liberation
movements and organizations - are listed as "designated terrorist organizations." This status is used in an attempt to
criminalize popular resistance and national liberation movements, equate those movements with "terrorism," frighten and
silence communities' support of their national movements, and potentially penalize supporters of the Palestinian cause,
as well as other national liberation movements.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is, alongside a number of other Palestinian political organizations,
listed and designated as a "terrorist organization." This designation, while doing nothing to change the fundamental
character of our movement, is an attempt to isolate the resistance, strike fear in the hearts of our people, and enact
U.S. foreign policy of massive support for Israel through the false use of a "terrorist" designation.
This designation is illegitimate, and an attempt to use the legal system to criminalize and demonize the Palestinian
cause. It is an attempt to silence our people in exile through the use of fear and intimidation. Furthermore, it goes
hand in hand with the funding, arming and support of Israel by the United States; the so-called "terrorist" designations
are merely another weapon placed in the hands of the occupiers of Palestine.
Furthermore, this designation is a dangerous threat to freedom of speech and association, threatening all - especially
immigrants and refugees - with unjust persecution merely for working to bring justice for Palestine.
These unjust designations can and must be undone. But a de-listing cannot and will not happen without loud voices
speaking clearly to the use and abuse of "terrorist" designations to criminalize a people Our movement is a just
movement for national liberation, a cause supported by vast reams of international law and fundamental human rights
principles, and our resistance is a just resistance against a brutal occupier on our land. This designation harms
popular movements for freedom and justice in Palestine, and it is a mechanism of unconditional support for the
occupation of our land and the dispossession and oppression of our people.
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