Stress is mounting for the UK to designate the Common Entrance for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), one of many teams concerned in October 7 and terror assaults predating it, in response to a Friday article by the Jewish Chronicle.
The PFLP, who made headlines within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies after hijacking planes, is banned in america, Canada, Japan and the European Union.
Whereas below EU regulation, the PFLP was topic to monetary sanctions within the UK, it now not applies because of a Brexit loophole, in response to the JC.
Authorized loopholes defending PFLP
The UK’s Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Management Council warned the UK authorities in 2018, in response to the supply, that the PFLP and the political wing of Hamas would profit from the loophole.
Regardless of being designated as terrorists elsewhere, and the assaults dedicated by the teams, each the PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade (AAMB) are authorized teams within the UK.
A Board of Deputies spokesperson mentioned, in response to the supply, “The PFLP and the AAMB weren’t on the UK’s record of proscribed terror organisations when the nation left the EU, creating a spot in enforcement.
“We now have urged for a while that this example needs to be remedied. We sincerely hope that the federal government will now act to shut the loophole opened up by Brexit and re-proscribe the PFLP and AAMB.”
A spokesperson for the Group Safety Belief informed the JC, “The PFLP has an extended report of terrorism, internationally prior to now and as much as the current day in Israel and the West Financial institution. They boasted of collaborating within the October 7 terror assault and it’s galling to see their flag being flown freely on anti-Israel protests since then right here in Britain.
“We urged the House Workplace in October final 12 months to proscribe the PFLP and all Palestinian armed teams that took half within the October 7 massacres and we hope they may take motion quickly.”
