UN-Funded Palestinian Legal Group Honors Terrorist Who Killed 2 Israelis

"The Palestinian Bar Association -- which receives major funding from the United Nations and European Union -- has decided to award an honorary law degree to Muhannad Halabi, the 19-year-old Palestinian law student who stabbed two Israelis to death in Jerusalem's Old City on Oct. 3 before being killed by Israeli security forces, according to a report published by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Sunday.

"The Palestinian Bar Association decided in its meeting today [Oct. 10] to award an honorary law degree to the martyred hero Muhannad Halabi and to hold its next [bar] swearing-in ceremony in [his] honor," a Palestinian Bar Association statement said.

'The martyred hero Halabi was an outstanding student at the faculty of law,' the statement said..."