I talk a lot of trash about BigLaw, and most of it is deserved. But sometimes they do important things like represent victims of terrorism in a lawsuit that connects the dots between Hamas and Students for Justice in Palestine.
This is a massive deal, filed Yesterday in the Eastern District of Virginia by Greenberg Traurig.
The complaint, filed by United States and Israeli citizens who survived the October 7 attacks, alleges that Defendant American Muslims for Palestine (“AMP”) serves as Hamas’s propaganda division in the United States. Hamas is a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (“FTO”).
The complaint alleges that AMP was founded from the ashes of disbanded organizations created by senior Hamas officials after those organizations and related individuals were found criminally and civilly liable for providing material support to Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups.
It describes that AMP expanded its operation to American college campuses when it founded Defendant National Students for Justice in Palestine (“NSJP”) to control hundreds of Students for Justice in Palestine (“SJP”) chapters across the country.
The complaint alleges that through NSJP, AMP uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, and recruit uninformed, misguided, and impressionable college students to serve as foot soldiers for Hamas on campus and beyond.
It also alleges that one day after Hamas’ attack, AMP and NSJP were prepared and responded to Hamas’ “call for mass mobilization” by disseminating a manifesto and plan of attack (“NSJP Toolkit”) which includes materials that appear to have been created before the attack.
The complaint alleges AMP and NSJP enacted the Toolkit as written and beset an army of college students on American streets and college campuses.
Through threats, violence, and vocal support for “globalizing” attacks against Jews and anyone who dares to support them, AMP and NSJP have intentionally instigated a mass culture of fear, threats, violence, and overt hatred to intimidate politicians and institutions for Hamas’s substantial benefit.
It goes on to explain that AMP and NSJP are—among other things—coordinating the occupation of dozens of college campuses across the country to “force” the American government and academia to bend to Hamas’ will.
The complaint explains the legal chasm between independent advocacy and knowingly serving as the propaganda and recruiting wing of a Foreign Terrorist Organization in the United States, alleging that AMP and NSJP are the latter. They are not innocent advocacy groups, but rather the propaganda arm of a terrorist organization operating in plain sight.
The incredibly detailed complaint seeks damages and fees under the Alien Tort Claims statute and Anti-Terrorism Act.
Remember kids, “vibes” is not a defense to a claim of material support for foreign terrorist organizations… I will be watching this one and the cosplaying commies should watch it too.
Link to Fox Report
Link to Complaint
Link to toolkit
Case No. for those who want to follow on Pacer: 1:24-cv-00724-RDA-IDD
Case No. for those who want to follow on Pacer: 1:24-cv-00724-RDA-IDD
Thank you! How is this information not everywhere right now??