There is no point in invoking morality, decency, or any suchlike stuff, in appealing to the pro-Palestinian groups that have been spewing their antisemitic venom on campuses from sea to shining sea to cease and desist. But a just-announced lawsuit against two of those groups could lead to a possible hit to their pocketbook, and that’s another matter. That will get their attention. That will fill them with anxiety. And so will another possible outcome of that lawsuit: both the groups, and those of their officers who are non-citizens, could also face expulsion from the country.
Now a group of nine victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7 are suing two of the most important anti-Israel groups on American campuses, the umbrella groups National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJUP) and American Muslims For Palestine (AMP), for aiding Hamas as “collaborators and propagandists.” More on their lawsuit, which will bring great grief to both NSJUP and AMP, including possibly bankrupting both groups and their officers, as well as leading to the expulsion of both groups from the United States, can be found here: “Israeli Terror Victims Sue Anti-Semitic Campus Groups for Aiding Hamas,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 2, 2024:
Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7th terror spree are suing two anti-Israel campus groups, alleging they are partially liable for the attack due to their role “as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court Wednesday, seeks damages for nine American and Israeli victims of Hamas’s unprecedented terror assault. It targets two campus umbrella groups—American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)—that are responsible for fomenting a tidal wave of antisemitic protests on college campuses across the country.
The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country.
“Survivors of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians still under fire from Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism have been, and continue to be, injured because AMP and NSJP knowingly provide continuous, systematic, and substantial assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of international terrorism,” the lawsuit states.
In a joint statement, the terror victims and their families said the AMP and NSJP should be held legally liable for Hamas’s terror campaign and face expulsion from the United States….
Arsen Ostrovsky, an attorney and CEO of the International Legal Forum, one of several groups supporting the lawsuit, said that NSJP “has effectively become the U.S. campus arm of Hamas.” The suit is jointly being handled by Greenberg Traurig, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Schoen Law Firm, and Holtzman Vogel.
These groups are “directly aiding and abetting the terror group on American colleges, and facilitating the conditions necessary for Hamas to continue carrying out acts of terror and the holding of hostages, including American nationals,” Ostrovsky said. “Enough is enough, we must bring to justice not only the perpetrators of the most heinous massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but hold accountable all those who enable, support, and collaborate with them, like NSJP and AMP.”
The legal team arrayed against the Hamas “collaborators” AMP and JSJP is formidable. It is led by lawyers from Greenberg Traurig, one of the biggest firms in the world, with 2750 lawyers. It should not be hard for those seasoned lawyers — who are going to be relentless, because for them, given their backgrounds, far more than billable hours are at stake — to prove that both groups have aided and abetted Hamas, providing It on hundreds of campuses with moral and political support, justifying and praising the October 7 atrocities, vilifying Israel, and acting as propagandists for the likes of Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh.
A world of woe awaits AMP and NSJP in the courtroom. It will be a pleasure to observe.
SC says
And if they dont cough up millions have every one of the members and everyone who funded them jailed jor contempt.
Frank Anderson says
SPLC bankrupted the KKK with this approach. I listened to their pitch for money for almost an hour. It worked once. Someday it may work on the SPLC also. 18 USC 2, anyone who aids, abets, counsels or acts in furtherance of a federal crime is equally guilty. War crimes are federal crimes by the adoption and ratification of the Treaty of London (1945) and Article 6 Clause 2 of the US Constitution. How long would Nazi’s be permitted to riot in the US during WWII?
Bernie says
I think the SPLC, under Morris Dees, also used that technique to bankrupt the late Tom Metzger and the W.A.R. (White Aryan Resistance) group back in the 1990’s, didn’t they? I think that W.A.R. incited racist skinheads to murder an Ethiopian immigrant in Oregon State.
Frank Anderson says
Thank you for your improved and better detail. As I understand, WAR was identified with the KKK. It has been about 10 years since I suffered through the fundraising talk.
somehistory says
The charges against these ghouls should also be for those who have been rioting in NYC, DC and elsewhere; the one such saying that she is hamas. Not just on the campuses, but any the attorneys can have identified among those who have gone after school kids, little children in hospitals, and anywhere/everywhere else.
The legal teams should send out their best investigators to locate these ones and have them served.
Kosh's Shadow says
And then the organizations should be declared not charitable and therefore taxable, with the big funding organizations forced to lose their status AND pay taxes.
It should not be impossible to show the big nonprofit foundations knew what these groups were doing, and once the groups started publicly intimidating Jews, there can be no doubt they knew, so if ANY money went to them after that, the big foundations had to know and lose their tax exempt status, with the rich jerks funding them forced to pay taxes, too.
That will never happen since they donate to the Dhimmicrat party.
somehistory says
“Cruz defies anti-Israel agitators who descend on his home ‘just about’ every weekend: ‘Wake the neighbors'”
….”The latest incident came Friday evening, when anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Cruz’s Texas home for the 23rd time since Feb. 10. ”
Sen. Cruz has kids. There should be something he could do about this. It’s akin to stalking.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/cruz-defies-anti-israel-agitators-who-descend-on-his-home-just-about-every-weekend-wake-the-neighbors/ar-BB1ok5h8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=72ec97d0ac21465fa7c4e501f80c15c2&ei=47
libertyORdeath says
Providing aid and comfort to a designated TERRORIST organization isn’t just grounds for a civil suit…it’s ILLEGAL and could easily be considered TREASON.
The propaganda that has been produced by these foreigners and Communists should be enough to convict and DEPORT a lot of these people.
somehistory says
If the people in charge weren’t corrupt, it would happen.
Greg Murphy says
And they have the best Jewish lawyers!