Source: European Parliament
Question for oral answer O-000014/2025
to the Council
Rule 142
Bert-Jan Ruissen
on behalf of the ECR Group
Samidoun (also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network), founded in 2011, actively promotes the destruction of Israel through terrorist acts and sees the EU, the US and Canada as complicit in Israel’s colonisation. Samidoun therefore poses a threat to the EU’s security. Samidoun has been classified as a terrorist entity by the US and Canada and has been banned in Germany.[1] The US considers Samidoun a proxy for fundraising for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is already on the EU terrorist list. The leadership of the organisation Masar Badil (also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement), founded in 2021, almost completely overlaps with that of Samidoun and it pursues the same objective. Samidoun and Masar Badil are not included on the EU terrorist list and can therefore fuel extremism in the EU unhindered.
As the Council reviews the EU terrorist list every six months:
- 1.Is listing Samidoun and Masar Badil as terrorist organisations under discussion in the Council?
- 2.What steps have the Council or Member States taken to add Samidoun and Masar Badil to the EU terrorist list?
- 3.If listing is not possible under current EU procedure, what measures should the EU take to ensure that Samidoun and Masar Badil are listed as terrorist organisations? Is this under discussion in the Council?
Submitted: 7.5.2025
Lapses: 8.8.2025
- [1] US: Secondary sanctions risk: section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended by Executive Order 13886; https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20241015 Germany: Art. 9 Abs. 2 GG, § 3 Abs. 1 Satz 1, § 14 Abs. 1 und § 14 Abs. 2 Vereinsgesetz (VereinsG): https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/2023/11/vereinsverbot-hamas-samidoun.html.