An official said Sunday that the US will remove a Jewish extremist organization related to late rabbi Meir Kahane as well as a Palestinian militant group from a terror blacklist after years of no bloodshed.

In 1997, three years after its follower Baruch Goldstein slaughtered 29 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the State Department recognized Kahane Chai as a foreign terrorist organization.

Kahane, a US-born rabbi, and former Israeli MP who pushed for the deportation of Arabs from Israel and was slain in New York in 1990 formed the organization.

The State Department notified Congress that it will lift the designation, which the organization had challenged in court since Kahane Chai “has not been linked to a terrorist incident since 2005,” according to an official.

The State Department was also delisting the Mujahidin Shoura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, a Palestinian terrorist organization involved to rocket strikes a decade ago, according to the official.

The revocation “ensures our terrorist sanctions remain current and credible and does not reflect any change in attitude regarding any of these groups’ prior acts,” a State Department official said on condition of anonymity.

Despite the absence of assaults by the Kahane Chai organization, the late rabbi remains a hero for those on Israel’s extreme right, notably a member of Knesset Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has proposed annexing the West Bank and has a painting of Goldstein hanging in his house.

Foreign terrorist organization designation significantly restricts actions in the United States, including criminalizing financial assistance.

The State Department said the two groups have remained on the less powerful Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, which aids law enforcement efforts.

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