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“Truth Over Facts”: Key Deletions in Biden Admin Official Report
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The Biden Administration is planning to restart funding for the Palestinian Authority (PA) by sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to the PA which aids terrorist organizations. To make matters worse, in a new State Department report that is sent to Congress yearly mandated by the 1990 Palestine Liberation Organization Commitments Compliance Act, the Biden Administration omitted specific references to the Palestinian government’s involvement with terrorists as well as support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The Biden Administration State Department report was nearly identical to former President Trump’s State Department report. Except for both of these issues – the Palestinians calling for violence and the BDS movement – were included in the Trump Administration’s report. So why were they deleted in the Biden Administration’s report?
ACLJ Senior Counsel Jeff Ballabon explained:
"Look, this is part of an overall push by the Biden Administration to undo the gains that took place under the previous Administration – under the Trump Administration. . . . They are sending them [the PA] hundreds of millions of dollars which as we know the PA is using to fund hate [and] terrorists; and now, they are trying to eradicate from the record the fact that this ongoing incitement of violence and payment of terror is going on."
ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs Mike Pompeo commented on if these deletions could be an attempt to give the PA a free pass when it comes to aiding terror:
"It looks like it. I’ve seen the record, the reporting of what they have assertedly done. If they have left this out, it is almost certainly intentional. . . . My sense is that they knew precisely what they were doing. It would appear that it is aimed at not having a factual record when they go to do the kinds of things they want to do to underwrite the Palestinians and to perhaps violate the Taylor Force Act. There are a lot of reasons you would want to leave those facts out when reporting to Congress. I hope that is not the case, but we have seen this for so long. We’ve seen this Administration take a very different approach to issues in the Middle East."
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy and former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell gave his insight:
"This is politicizing the situation. All because they are rushing to try to have some sort of a deal. But I don’t think any deal is ever going to hold. You don’t make any progress diplomatically if you somehow ignore the facts. And that is where I think we are different between the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration. We had to confront uncomfortable facts when it came to trying to move us forward diplomatically. Too many people in Washington, D.C., stick their head in the sand, pretend like a conflict doesn’t exist, and then schedule a big fancy lunch and pretend like they made progress. That is not progress, that is ignoring the facts."
We have already sent a written submission to the United Nations to condemn Hamas and the PA for violating human rights laws. We’ve filed a lawsuit over the Biden Administration violating the Taylor Force Act and resumed funding to the PA. And just recently, I sent a letter to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the antisemitic attacks around the country and the world.
Our legal team is currently working on another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get to the bottom of who authorized the deletion of this vital information from the State Department report and why.
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