Excavating the Beit She’an Valley in northeastern Israel, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a relatively advanced civilization dating to the era between 5200 and 4500 BCE—thousands of years before Moses or even Abraham. Amanda Borschel-Dan writes:

Alongside mounting evidence of organized large-scale agricultural production, a tiny 7,000-year-old blob of clay with geometric patterns—the earliest impressed sealing discovered in the region—is giving academics new insight into what may have been one of the earliest trade hubs and administration centers in the southern Levant. According to Hebrew University’s Yosef Garfinkel, the sealing was used on a grain-silo door or a commodities sack or vessel much in the manner of a hair placed on a doorjamb—to catch trespassers.

According to [the archaeologists, this] sealing is, “thus far, the earliest known sealing from the southern Levant dated prior to the 4th millennium BCE with an actual seal impression.”

According to Garfinkel, the site . . . is notable for its well-organized very early silos and immense storage capabilities. He said that they [had the capacity to hold] too much grain to have been constructed for a single family’s consumption prior to spoilage, and it was therefore a reasonable assumption that they were used in trade.

Established in 2012 and maintaining branches in Europe, North America, and Iran, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Network claims its goal is merely to show “solidarity” for imprisoned Palestinians. The organization’s leader, however, has admitted to being a representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a notorious terrorist group whose most recent accomplishments include murdering a seventeen-year-old girl. As Arsen Ostrovsky and Patricia Teitelbaum point out, Samidoun is just one example of how the European Union allows Iran-backed terrorists to operate in its midst:

The PFLP is a proxy of the Iranian regime, which provides the terror group with money, training, and weapons. Samidoun . . . has a branch in Tehran. It has even held events there, under the pretext of “cultural activity,” to elicit support for operations in Europe. Its leader, Khaled Barakat, is a regular on Iran’s state [channel] PressTV, calling for violence and lauding Iran’s involvement in the region. It is utterly incomprehensible, therefore, that the EU has not yet designated Samidoun a terror group.

According to the Council of the European Union, groups and/or individuals can be added to the EU terror list on the basis of “proposals submitted by member states based on a decision by a competent authority of a member state or a third country.” In this regard, there is already a standing designation by Israel of Samidoun as a terror group and a decision of a German court finding Barakat to be a senior PFLP operative.

Given the irrefutable axis-of-terror between Samidoun, PFLP, and the Iranian regime, the EU has a duty to put Samidoun and senior Samidoun leaders on the EU terror list. It should do this not as some favor to Israel, but because otherwise it continues to turn a blind eye to a group that presents a clear and present security threat to the European Union and EU citizens.