1. Last week the EU-funded Palestinian Bar Association (PBA) expressed solidarity with two of the Palestinian terrorists who carried out lethal stabbing attacks in Jerusalem:

1) PBA members took a series of steps to show solidarity with Muhannad Halabi, a law student at Al-Quds University, who carried out a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. Halabi killed two Israelis and wounded two others (a mother and her baby). To show their solidarity, PBA lawyers, some of them wearing the judicial robes, held a demonstration the IDF roadblock near Beit El, PBA council members paid a condolence call on the Halabi family, and the PBA posthumously awarded the “shaheed” Muhannad Halabi an honorary LL.D (doctor of law) degree.

2) The PBA also sent a message of condolence to Muhammad Alian, a lawyer and father of the “heroic shaheed” Bahaa Alian. Bahaa Alian was one of two Palestinian terrorists who carried out the combined shooting and stabbing attack on the number 78 bus in Armon Hanatziv in Jerusalem on October 13, 2015.

2. The support shown by the Palestinian Bar Association is one aspect of the extensive internal popular and governmental Palestinian support for the terrorists carrying out the recent wave of attacks. Support is shown even when the terrorists attack innocent civilians and their actions are overtly military and go beyond the popular resistance (for example, shooting and stabbing civilians on a bus), which is the stated policy of the PA. Palestinian Bar Association Awards Terrorist Muhannad Halabi an Honorary LL.D

3. At a meeting held in Ramallah on October 10, 2015, the PBA council voted to posthumously award Muhannad Halabi an honorary LL.D to Muhannad Halabi, the terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem and killed two Israeli civilians. They also decided that the next swearing-in ceremony of Palestinian lawyers would be named for him. After the meeting council members paid a condolence call on the Halabi family, because, they claimed, he had excelled in his law studies (PBA website, October 10, 2015).

4. The council’s decision to award the terrorist with a posthumous honorary LL.D was posted on the PBA’s website in Arabic, but not in English (PBA website, October 14, 2015). The full version of the decision was also posted only on the PBA’s Arabic Facebook page. The reason might have been a desire to keep a low profile regarding the Association’s support for terrorism to avoid alerting various agencies in the West, which support the PBA (According to the PBA website, it is funded by the EU).

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