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"According to Jerusalem-based research organization NGO Monitor, Al-Haq is one of the leaders of Palestinian "lawfare" – a strategy NGO Monitor described as exploiting legal processes in democratic societies in order to promote the political attacks against Israel. "Al-Haq’s director, Sharwan Jabarin, has been linked to the PFLP [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] and the Israeli Supreme Court has found that "material pointing to [Jabarin’s] involvement in the activity of terrorist entities is concrete and reliable…," said Prof. Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor’s executive director. The court also declared that Jabarin was "apparently active as a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in part of his hours of activity he is the director of a human rights organization and in another part he is an activist in a terrorist organization," he said. Steinberg accused Al-Haq of abusing the British legal system to attack Israel. "Al-Haq’s campaign in the UK is another example of the cynical abuse of the legal system in which Israeli defense against terror is being attacked under the label of human rights. A similar case was brought by Al-Haq in the UK in 2006, and eventually dismissed by the courts, and another case is about to heard in Canada. Indeed, Al-Haq’s funders – including Christian Aid, the Dutch and Norwegian governments and Irish Aid – share responsibility for funding this abuse of public resources and for clogging the court’s calendar with anti-Israel propaganda exercises," Steinberg said."