Israel’s foremost civil rights group publicly and illegally expressed support for a Palestinian terrorist organization that’s under U.S. sanctions for anti-Israel lawfare, Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, told police on Sunday.
Rothman’s letter to the Police Investigations and Intelligence Division concerned the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which he said should be the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly breaking anti-terrorism laws by supporting Al-Haq, a Palestinian group Israel designated as a terror group in 2021.
Last week, the U.S. State Department sanctioned Al-Haq and two other Palestinian NGOs for working with the International Criminal Court.
On Sept. 5, ACRI posted on social media a text criticizing t