Measure targeting pro-Palestine NGOs disappears from US tax bill | Politics News

Washington, DC – A measure known as the “non -profit murderer” has been eliminated from an Advanced Hoggeous Tax Law in the United States Congress, according to the bill published online by the House of Representatives.

The provision, not, not, did not appear in the “Bande and beautiful bill” backed by President Donald Trump on Monday, would have to be the Rama Executive of the Authority to strip the state of improvisation of imposing articles that support “terrorism.”

The defenders have warned that the legislative effort, which was not approved as an independent bill of last year, could be abused of taking energetic measures against the groups with which the administration does not agree, particularly the non -governmental organizations (NGOs) that support Palestian.

Israel has given little indication that he is telling after more than 19 months in his war against Gaza. Last week he has seen an intensification of violence in the Palestinian territory, which has killed hundreds of people.

The reason for the disappearance of the NGO disposition is still clear, and experts warned that it can still reappear in the bill before the final vote in the Chamber, which is expected later in the week.

The Office of the Republican President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Al Jazeera.

With a thin majority in the chamber, Republicans need each vote to approve the Tax Law, which Trump has put at the top of his agenda in Congress.

Kia Hamadonchy, senior policy advisor to the American Union of Civil Libertads, said the section may have been eliminated to avoid putting the draft law of the essential step, especially because the parliamentary of the Chamber, an non -split office that feels that it has to so much.

“It is possible that this is a hypo that they did not want, since it was like to happen,” Hamadonchy told Al Jazeera.

“I cannot tell you that this is the sure reason. What I can tell you that we are continuously very attentive in case it returns, either later this week or in the future.”

During the week, Trump has been asking the Congress to approve the bill, which extends its 2017 tax cuts, a key component or its economic plans.

But the proposal has faced a certain opposition of the conservative budget hawks, which have argued that it does not reduce enough expense and would be added to the debt of $ 36.2 billion of $ 36.2 of the nation. Therefore, Republicans can unnecessary the unnecessary problems that could derail the approval of the legislet.

‘Free freedom of story’

The rights groups have gathered against the “non -profit murderer”, saying that it violates freedom of expression and the right to due process.

The proposal would have granted the Secretary of State Power to unilaterally declare a “support terrorist” of NGO and make it intelligible for tax exemptions.

He also said that the government would not have to reveal the reason behind the designation if “the dissemination of said description would be inconsistent with national security or police interests.”

According to current rules, certified organizations to be non -profit by the Government obtain breaks on their federal income taxes. The State also makes donations to said group tax deductible for donors.

While the withdrawal measure would have allowed a specific NGO to challenge the decision of the Secretary of State in the Court, to lose the tax exempt, even if temporarily, it could demonstrate that non -profit organizations, especially smaller organizations.

Hamadonchy said that being accused of supporting terrorism could also have led banks to close the accounts of the groups.

“And then he has legal costs that fight against the designation because even if he can win in court, he will take time to get there, and will cause a lot of damage to his organization through that process,” he said.

“And that is the point because they want to relax speech.”

Hamadonchy said that existing laws already provide material support for a “terrorist” criminal offense designated with severe sanctions.

The legislative impulse coincided with the repression of the Trump administration against supporters of Palestinian rights, especially in university campuses.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has revoked the visas of students of several defenders of Palestine, who have not been accused of a criminal offense, about accusations of “support for terrorism.”

Some defense groups have portrayed the “non -profit murderer” as part of a broader impulse to make snacks in the critical voices of Israel.

“This bill is designed to silence the dissent, special of Muslim, Palestinian and civil rights organizations that speak against injustice and genocide,” said the Council of American Islamic Relations in a statement last week.

“Threat to all non -profit purposes that are involved in defense, educate the public or challenge government policy.”

The apparent setback for the provision of non -profit provisions occurred almost two weeks after the chamber leaders canceled a vote on a bill to restrict Israel’s boycott after a reaction of right -wing legislats that expressed the freedom of expression of op.

Lara Friedman, president of the Middle East Peace Foundation, said it would be “interesting” to see how Republican leaders would take care of Pro-Israel measures as the “non-profit murderer” in the future.

“On the one hand, they probably see this as a fun opportunity to embarrass the Democrats, whose opposition will be framed as anti-Israel or terror and anti-Semitism, and, on the other hand