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Union of Palestinian

Women's Committees'

Ties to the PFLP Terror Group

January

2020

The Union of Palestinian Women Committees

Society’s Ties to the PFLP Terror Group

January 2020

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The Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society’s Ties to the PFLP Terror Group

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INTRODUCTION Founded in 1980, the Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society (UPWC – originally Union of Palestinian Women Committees) states that its mission is “to empower Palestinian women on all levels and to contribute in the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli military illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.” According to a 2012 article published in Haaretz, UPWC “operates 21 preschools and day-care centers in the poorest communities in the West Bank.”

UPWC supports “the boycott of occupation in all forms, including economic, cultural, academic and all other forms of boycott” and rejects any normalization with Israel calling it “treason.”

As documented in this report, UPWC has multiple links to the PFLP terrorist organization.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Founded by George Habash in 1967, the PFLP is a secular Palestinian Marxist-Leninist terror group, originally supported by the former Soviet Union and China. The PFLP is a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel and is involved in suicide bombings, shootings, and assassinations, among other terrorist activities targeting civilians. It is well-known for hijacking commercial airlines in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as targeting civilians in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and is responsible for countless deaths and injuries.

The PFLP assassinated Israeli Minister of Tourism Rechavam Ze’evi in 2001. In 1976, its members joined with the Baader-Meinhof Gang (a West German terror group) to hijack an Air France Tel Aviv-bound flight, diverting it in Entebbe, Uganda. In 2011, PFLP members took credit for the brutal murder of the Fogel family, including a baby and two young children. The PFLP was also responsible for the 2014 massacre at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, murdering four worshipers and an Israeli Druze police officer. In August 2019, a PFLP terror cell carried out a bombing against Israeli civilians, murdering 17-year-old Rina Shnerb, and injuring her father and brother.

The PFLP has never recognized the State of Israel, and opposes all negotiations, instead calling for the “liberation” of all of “historical Palestine,” regularly by means of terror.

Funding

UPWC’s terror affiliation is antithetical to human rights norms and principles. Due to its affiliation with the PFLP, the provision of funds to UPWC is in likely violation of international, EU, and domestic terror financing and material support laws. The organization is therefore an inappropriate partner for governments and individuals seeking to further human rights in the region.

UPWC does not publish financial information, reflecting a lack of transparency and ac-countability. Partial information is available from other sources.

In 2015-2018, the Basque region (Basque Agency for Development Cooperation via the Spanish NGO Mundubat) granted UPWC €800,764 for “strengthening communi-ty resistance and Palestinian social cohesion in east Jerusalem” as part of its Kanan pro-

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UPWC and

EU logos

PFLP flag

UPWC and EU logos

PFLP flag

The PFLP terror group logo is seen next to the EU and UPWC logos at a work-shop to support female participation in elections.

(Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, November 12, 2017:

https://www.facebook.com/AthadLjanAlmratAlflstynyt/posts/1690065831011734?__tn__=-R)

ject. o The Kanan project is dedicated to strengthening “the social and political participa-

tion channels of the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem through enhancing the capacity of the youth.” It is implemented by six NGOs, including UPWC, Health Work Committees (HWC), Defense for Children International–Palestine (DCI-P), Al-ternative Information Center (AIC), and Bisan Center for Research and Develop-ment Association,1 all of which have reported ties to the PFLP terror group.

In 2018-2019, the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation granted UPWC (via the Spanish NGO Mundubat) €184,252 for “psychosocial support to Gazan women and minors.”

In 2017-2019, the European Commission granted €699,236 to UPWC for “strengthening community resilience and social cohesion in East Jerusalem on both sides of the separation wall.” The project included Mundubat and five Palestinian NGOs recipients, including DCI-P, HWC, and the Bisan Center for Research and De-velopment Association.

In 2016-2019, UPWC received NOK 50.5 million (approximately €5 million) from Norway (via Norwegian People’s Aid) for a project “Partnership for dem-ocratic development in Palestine.” The pro-ject is being imple-mented by 11 NGO partners, including the Union of Agricul-tural Works Commit-tee (UAWC), a Pales-tinian NGO identified by Fatah as an official PFLP “affiliate” and by USAID as the “agricultural arm” of the PFLP.

In 2015, Spain (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation – AECID) granted €83,200 to UPWC for “Improvement of participation in public spaces for Pal-estinian women.”

1 Bisan Center for Research and Development’s reported ties to the PFLP include: Izzat Abdulhadi, a former director of Bisan, is reported to be a PFLP member. According to the Palestinian organizations Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Addameer, Bisan Executive Director Eteraf Rimawi was arrested six times by Israeli forces between 1995 and 2014. Rimawi was reportedly sentenced for 16-months in prison and fined NIS 5,000 in 2000. During his detention in 2008, an Israeli military judge affirmed that “Eteraf was active in political activities related to the PFLP.”

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UPWC’S ORGANIZATIONAL TIES TO THE PFLP

UPWC is identified by Fatah as a PFLP “affiliate” and by a USAID-engaged audit as the “PFLP’s women’s organization.”

In her book Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, Simona Sharoni explains that “women favoring the platform of the Popular Front for the Liber-ation of Palestine (PFLP) founded the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC).”

On March 21, 2018, UPWC Vice President Suhair Khader stated that UPWC is the PFLP’s “feminist framework.”

On September 24, 2019, UPWC reported that Israeli security forces “stormed” their head-quarters in Hebron, seizing computers and other devices. UPWC posted several photos of the incident on its Facebook page as well.

In 2012, Israeli security forces reportedly “confiscated seven computers, four hard drives, camera memory cards, an external hard drive and a projector” from UPWC’s offices. They al-so took “posters of George Habash, the deceased leader of the Popular Front for the Libera-tion of Palestine” and “60 children’s T-shirts that bore the name Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestin-ian writer born in Acre who served as one of the PFLP’s spokesmen.”

UPWC also regularly honors PFLP terrorists. For example, in 2018, UPWC held a seminar in commemoration of the PFLP founder George Habash, “on the importance of reconciliation and ending the division as a means of liberation and confronting the enemy.” The same year, UPWC posted a message commemorating “the fortieth anniversary of the martyrdom” of the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who in 1978 murdered 37 civilians, including 12 children (see Appendix I).

SELECTED UPWC STAFF MEMBERS WITH TIES TO THE PFLP

Numerous UPWC staff members have ties to the PFLP terror group.

Khitam Saafin:

UPWC President.2 In 2017, Khitam Saafin was arrested by Israeli security forces. In a July 2017 statement published by the PFLP, the terrorist organization “confirmed that

the Zionist occupation forces launched a pre-dawn campaign of raids across the occupied West Bank of Palestine on Sunday, arresting a number of leaders and activists of the Front, led by the Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar, feminist activist Khitam Saafin and former prisoner Ihab Massoud, as well as a number of activists in al-Khalil” (emphasis added). The PFLP also “urged the Palestinian masses to escalate the popular movement to support the struggle of the brave prisoners in Israeli jails, for Jarrar and Saafin and the prisoner Muhammad Allan, on hunger strike for 25 days.”

The PFLP has referred to Saafin as a “comrade.”

2 As of a September 2019 article in the National.

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Suhair Khader:

UPWC Vice President.3 According to the PFLP, Suhair Khader is “a member of the Central Committee of the Popu-

lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” In a March 2018 article on the PFLP’s website, Khader states that the “recovery of our sto-

len rights and the realization of our national and struggle project, which is basically the right of return – the essence of the con-flict between us and the Zionist enemy rapist – can only be through the crystal-lization of a mass of pressure and severe masses flowing to the camps return” (emphasis added). Khader further “stressed the need to strengthen wom-en’s participation and the need for them to be advanced to the front rows and to continue their struggle. They must also be armed with the motivation and de-termination until the restoration of our national rights, as manifested in the right of return and the liberation of every cen-timeter of occupied Palestine” (emphasis added).

Samira Abdel-Alim:

UPWC coordinator in Rafah, Gaza.4 According to the PFLP, Abdel-

Alim is a member of the PFLP’s Central Committee.

In 2015, Samira Abdel-Alim participated in a symposium “In Support of Our Heroes” that called for the “support of the prisoners in the prisons of the Zionist enemy.” The sympo-sium, which took place at UPWC’s headquarters, was co-organized by the International Campaign for Solidarity with the PFLP’s Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat.

3 As of a March 2018 UPWC article. An October 2019 PressTV article notes she is still involved with the organization. 4 As of a June 2018 UPWC article.

Photo of Suhair Khader on PFLP Website with PFLP flag in the background. (Source: PFLP, “Khadr: We call for intensifying the participation of women in the march of return as an essential partner in the struggle,” March 29, 2018)

Photo of Samira Abdel-Alim on the PFLP Website, taken during a symposium “In Support of Our Heroes,” hosted at UPWC’s Headquarters (Source: PFLP, “Solidarity Campaign with Leader Sa’adat Organizations a Symposium in Rafah entitled in ‘Support of Our Heroes,’” February 26, 2015)

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Maha Nassar: According to an October 2013 statement published by UPWC on the PFLP’s website, Nassar, who died in 2008, “contributed to the foundation of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees in 1980, elected as its president in 1994, and was reelected twice afterwards.”

According to the statement, Nassar “was one of the first people who founded the Popular Front Organization” at Birzeit University. According to the same statement, she also served as a “member in the Assembly” of the Palestinian NGO Woman’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC).5

In the statement, UPWC claims that “her actions have always preceded her words, like those of Shadia Abu Ghazaleh and Dalal Al Moghrabi and all Palestinian women martyrs” and that “Comrade Maha’s visible role in the first and second In-tifada is well known to the Palestinian people.”

In 1978, Dalal Mugrabi, a Palestinian terrorist, murdered 38 civilians, in-cluding 13 children in the Coastal Road Massacre.

Shadia Abu Ghazaleh is referred to by the PFLP as a “comrade.” The PFLP website notes that she was “one of the original members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” and “one of the first Palestinian wom-en to be involved in military resistance in the post-1967 era.” According to the PFLP, “She participated in and led several military operations carried out by the PFLP before the accidental detonation of a bomb in her home. Today, her name is immortal as a struggler, a leader, and a fighter in the history of the Pal-estinian people and the people of the world.”

The PFLP refers to Nassar as a “comrade,” “role model,” and “icon of national and demo-cratic struggle.”

The PFLP also refers to her as “a leading Pales-tinian feminist” and “member of the Central Committee of the PFLP.”

Dalia Nassar:

Maha Nassar’s (above) daughter, Dalia Nassar also appears to be a UPWC member6 and representative.7

5 In May 2017, WATC inaugurated a youth center for girls in the town of Burqa, near Nablus. As reported by Palestinian Media Watch, the center was named after Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who in 1978 murdered 38 civilians, including 13 children. Funding for this building was provided by Norway, UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), and Palestinian Authority Ministry of Local Government. Upon learning that the center had been named after a terrorist, the Norwegian government and the United Nations issued strong condemnations. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende stated that “We have asked for the logo of the Norwegian representation office to be removed from the building immediately, and for the funding that has been allocated to the centre to be repaid.” 6 As of a November 2018 Mundubat article. 7 According to a January 2019 interview published in “noticias de Gipuzkoa.”

UPWC and Progressive Student Action Front Ceremony with banner of Leila Khaled (Source: PFLP, “The Student Action Front and the Union of Women’s Committees honor the active and successful student,” March 11, 2019)

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She serves as UPWC coordinator for the Kanan Project (see above).8 She has been described as “one of the first women to participate in clashes with the IDF

alongside the men.” An October 2015 interview with Dalia Nassar in Alaraby states that “her mother was a

member [sic] the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist political party” and quotes Dalia Nassar stating that “I am proud of my mum and I want to follow in her foot-steps.”

Ismat Shakhshir:

UPWC member9 and official10 in Nablus. Shakhshir, according to her CV, is also a “member of the director committee” of

the Health Work Committees, an organization with ties to PFLP. According to an “All 4 Palestine” article, she is also a board member of the Union of Health Work Committees, an organization with ties to the PFLP.

Shakhshir ran “for the PLC [Palestinian Legislative Council] seat at the 2006 election rep-resenting the PFLP but did not pass.”

In 2019, Shakhshir participated in a ceremony co-organized by UPWC and the Progres-sive Student Action Front, “the student organization of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” in honor of the International Women’s Day.

The banner for the ceremony featured logos of UPWC, the Progressive Student Ac-tion Front, and the PFLP terrorist and plane hijacker Leila Khaled.

In 2017, Shakhshir participated in a workshop, “The boycott of Israeli goods and its im-

pact on the normalization,” co-organized by UPWC and the Progressive Student Action Front.

8 As of a November 2018 Navarra.es article. 9 As of an October 2018 post on “Coordinadoro Extremena De Organizaciones No Gubernamentales Para El Desar-rollo” website and a November 2017 UPWC Facebook post. 10 According to an October 2019 article in Arabic language media.

Photo of Ismat Shakhshir during the ceremony in honor of the International Women's Day. (Source: PFLP, “The Student Action Front and the Union of Women’s Committees honor the active and successful student,” March 11, 2019)

Photo of Ismat Shakhshir during a workshop “The boycott of Israeli goods and its impact on the normalization” (Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees Federation, Facebook, November 28, 2017)

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In 2015, Shakhshir participated in a seminar “Detention experiences and human rights during detention, interrogation and trial” co-organized by UPWC, the Progressive Student Action Front, and Addameer – an organization identified by Fatah as an official PFLP “affiliate.”

UPWC’S INCITEMENT OF CHILDREN

According to UPWC, the organization supervises the “Ghassan Kanafani” educational project for young children. Kanafani was a “leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales-tine.”

The Ghassan Kanafani Project’s 2017 preschool graduation ceremony program included “solidarity with our brave prisoners” and children dressed in military uniforms and holding PFLP signs:

Photo of Ismat Shakhshir during a workshop “Detention experiences and human rights during detention, interrogation and trial” (Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, April 21, 2015)

Pictures of the festivities marking the end of the 2017 Ghassan Kanafani project. The pictures are published on UPWC’s Facebook account and feature children wearing uniforms or T-shirts of Kanafani. One child is seen lying down on the floor with a gun. Others are dancing around with knives. One picture also presents children holding a poster of what appears to be PFLP prisoners.

(Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, May 29, 2017)

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(Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees,

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APPENDIX I: UPWC GLORIFICATION OF TERRORISM

Post commemorating the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi.

(Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook,

March 11, 2018)

UPWC honors “families of martyrs.” The picture features a “martyr” wearing a PFLP bandana. (Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, March 26, 2019)

UPWC organized an event in commemoration of the PFLP’s founder George Habash. Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, February 4, 2018)

UPWC’s poster in honor of Interna-tional Women’s Day: “Our voice is the voice of revolutions” (Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Fa-

cebook, March 6, 2016)

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UPWC Facebook post: “They are the partners of struggle” (Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees,

Facebook, March 31, 2019)

UPWC Facebook post: “Our women in the field side by side with our young heroes”

(Source: Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, Facebook, April 13, 2018)
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