I had said that some of the organizations, such as Al-Haq, have links with terrorism. You will note that the Israeli Supreme Court, one of the most respected courts in the world, found on three separate occasions—2007, 2008, and 2009—that the head of this organization, the person with whom Rights and Democracy had signed a contract, Mr. Shawan Jabarin, is a senior member of a banned terrorist organization. This is a Supreme Court of Israel decision.
We also had a problem with this organization in that it violated the fundamental rule of non-partisanship, of impartiality. If you go to the website of this organization—and in fact I brought along one of the publications before they were commissioned to do any work—this organization had already made up its mind as to what happened, it had already designated a fellow democracy as basically a criminal entity, as committing systematic war crimes, and that this organization should be boycotted, divested, and sanctioned.
This is certainly not the sense of the people of Canada. This is not within the good conscience of the Canadian people. But what is very odd about this is that this was on the website; this was a decision they had already made. They had reached a conclusion, and then, ironically, bizarrely, in violation of every rule of fairness, they're asked to investigate.
Let me just read you something from the Supreme Court of Israel—