B’nai Brith Canada is pressing its country’s government to add a Palestinian organization linked to Yasser Arafat to a list of terror groups. The group said the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade should be added, particularly since the Tanzim, another militia linked to Arafat’s Fatah movement, recently was put on the list following pressure from Jewish groups.
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