“Although the Boim complaint makes no allegations about religion, AMP Chairman Hatem Bazian dismissed it and the allegations it makes as ‘frivolous and highly Islamophobic.'”
Hatem (“Hate ’em”) Bazian is a key propagandist of the “Islamophobia” myth: he is the founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California at Berkeley. His statement about the Boim case shows how these cynical propagandists wield charges of “Islamophobia” as a weapon in order to defame and discredit their opponents. The Boims’ son was murdered by Hamas. Bazian’s American Muslims for Palestine is a clear successor of Hamas groups in the United States. Bazian ignores that and calls their complaint “Islamophobic,” in an attempt to put them plaintiffs on the defensive, and to move the spotlight from his ties to Hamas to their alleged bigotry. It works so well for him in other contexts, courtesy of the easy marks he manipulates on the American Left. Whether it will work here remains to be seen.
“Lawsuit Targets American Muslims for Palestine,” IPT News, May 12, 2017:
A national anti-Israel group and several of its activists are “alter egos and/or successors” of a Hamas-support network that was found liable for an American teen’s death in a 1996 terrorist attack, litigation filed in Chicago federal court Friday claims.
After Stanley and Joyce Boim won $156 million in damages, defendants including the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the American Muslim Society (AMS) shut down and claimed to be unable to pay. It was a ruse, the Boims’ attorneys claim, as many of the same people opened up American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) at a nearby address.
A subsequent criminal prosecution found that other defendants in the original lawsuit, like the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and the United Association for Studies and Research, were part of a Muslim Brotherhood-created Hamas-support network in the United States called the Palestine Committee.
The IAP used to hold annual conventions. The year after it shut down, AMP held its first national meeting, offering the same “audience, content, management, speakers, and … message” as the IAP gatherings, the complaint said.
Today, AMP and its financial arm, Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation, continue the work done by the defunct groups in the original Boim suit, the complaint said. AMP donors and officers “are substantially identical to the management and donors of their alter egos and predecessors, HLF, IAP and AMS.”
In 2015, the Investigative Project on Terrorism first identified the connections between the AMP and Palestine Committee groups. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Vice President Jonathan Schanzer built on those connections in congressional testimony last year.
Rafeeq Jaber, a defendant in the new action, handles AJP’s taxes, the complaint says. He previously served as president of both the IAP and AMS. AMP President Abdelbasset Hamayel was IAP’s secretary general. AMP board member Osama Abu Irshaid edited the IAP newsletter, Al-Zaytounah. The publication ran Hamas communiques and solicited donations for the Holy Land Foundation.
Although the Boim complaint makes no allegations about religion, AMP Chairman Hatem Bazian dismissed it and the allegations it makes as “frivolous and highly Islamophobic.”
The original Boim lawsuit focused on 17-year-old David Boim’s 1996 murder in a Hamas shooting attack on a bus stop in Israel. His parents collected only a small portion of the damages awarded in that suit. The defendants “deliberately created and [hid] behind new legal entities, to obscure their identity and avoid paying the judgment,” a memorandum filed along with the new complaint said.
It was filed on the 17th anniversary of David Boim’s murder.
“These defendants cannot escape their legal liability and accountability for murder by merely changing the names of their organizations. We are filing this lawsuit to secure justice for David’s memory precisely 17 years after the Boims’ original lawsuit was filed against those who murdered their 17-year-old son,” attorney Alyza Lewin said in a statement.
ElderlyZionist says
Go Boims! Keep after the b*st*rds, never give them a moment’s peace. We have the best lawyers in the world here in the United States, and plenty of them, too. Use them.
Monty says
Muslim propaganda groups learn well from the west when it suits them. We call them Phoenix companies in Australia. Shut your doors owing millions, open them again with a different name and fleece more suckers. The western world needs to go onto a war footing. They need to treat all Muslims in non-Muslim countries as if they were enemies. Which potentially they are. My great grandfather was interned in England for the duration of Word War 1 because he was a German living in the UK. My mother told me he did not complain as he realised why. Instead, most Western countries have an undeclared war against their own citizens while sponsoring the seeds of their own downfall. Orwell believed that propaganda can convince anyone of anything given time. Apart from a few voices of reason, he is proving to be correct.
Michael Copeland says
“Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers”, Koran 2:98.
This means that non-muslims are, indeed, the enemies of muslims.
There is no choice.
Rob says
Well said, Monty. Western civilization will cease to exist if we continue to have our heads shoved up our behinds instead of sitting squarely on our shoulders and confronting the truth. One positive thing the election of Trump has done for America is rip the veil off the Islamic activities and infiltration level within our country. What remains to be seen is whether the West’s post-WWII generations still have the balls required to stand up and defend us.
mortimer says
Wonderful news! Sue them! Punitive lawsuits against those who promoted jihad-terror-genocide will force the supporters to cough up compensation for victims’ families, damage done, etc.
Anyone who promotes terrorism supports terrorism by proxy. They are equally guilty, because without their funding and encouragement, the terrorists would not gain the courage to go ahead. Similar lawsuits in against the Fakestinian terrorists would bankrupt their organizations.
A number of TERRORISM FRONT GROUPS in the US should be investigated, tried and banned for PROMOTING TERRORISM AND GENOCIDE.
Steve Klein says
1) This day in history: President Polk declares war on Mexico
On May 13, 1846, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly votes in favor of President James K. Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas….
2) ‘President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law on May 28th, 1830. This act granted the President to get Indian lands in exchange for unsettled lands. The Cherokees were forced to move west and about 4,000 of them died which became known as the, “Trail of Tears.”
3) ‘Trump to Back Palestinian ‘Self-Determination’ During Israel Visit’
US Envoy Urges Israel to Cooperate on Peace Efforts
by Jason Ditz, May 12, 2017
‘….giving the Palestinians self-determination would necessarily imply that they can establish an independent state on Jewish soil….’
gravenimage says
Parents of Hamas jihad attack victim sue American Muslims for Palestine
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*Good*.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Good article!
The problem isn’t ”-phobia”, albeit the incorrect use of the suffix, the problem is religions aren’t dealing with rejection. People are rejecting religions because they’re tired of dealing with religions pushing civilization back into the stone-age.
Lukas says
Any evidence that religions other than islam (underlined) like you said about reducing our world to stone age?