Major US law firm sues Students for Justice in Palestine for alleged support of Hamas 'terrorist activities'

Nine survivors of nan Oct. 7 violent attacks connected confederate Israel brought a national suit pointing to nan escalating nationwide assemblage protests broiling pinch antisemitism, arguing that National Students for Justice successful Palestine (NSJP) and its genitor statement are moving successful nan United States "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas." 

Through NSJP, AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – besides known arsenic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly "uses propaganda to intimidate, convince, and enlistee uninformed, misguided, and impressionable assemblage students to service arsenic ft soldiers for Hamas connected field and beyond," according to nan suit revenge connected Wednesday successful nan U.S. District Court for nan Eastern Division of Virginia, Alexandria Division.

The litigation, brought by awesome U.S. and world rule patient Greenberg Traurig, alleges AMP "serves arsenic Hamas’s propaganda section successful nan United States" and "was founded from nan ashes of disbanded organizations created by elder Hamas officials aft those organizations and related individuals were recovered criminally and civilly liable for providing worldly support to Hamas and different affiliated violent groups." 

In 2010, AMP expanded its cognition to American assemblage campuses erstwhile it founded NSJP "to power hundreds of Students for Justice successful Palestine ('SJP') chapters crossed nan country," nan suit says. 

"This lawsuit is not astir independent governmental advocacy. It is astir organizations whose very creation was intended to supply continuous, systematic, and important assistance to a Foreign Terrorist Organization and its allies," nan title states.

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Hundreds of students protestation extracurricular nan "Palestine Solidarity Encampment" connected nan field of UCLA successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

The filing alleges that by utilizing "threats, violence, and vocal support for ‘globalizing’ attacks against Jews and anyone who dares to support them," nan organizations "have intentionally instigated a wide civilization of fear, threats, violence, and overt hatred to intimidate politicians and institutions for Hamas’s important benefit."

The title besides alleges that astatine nan clip it was filed, "AMP and NSJP are – among different things – coordinating nan business of dozens of assemblage campuses crossed nan state to ‘force’ nan American authorities and academia to crook to Hamas’s will." 

Fox News Digital reached retired to AMP and NSJP for remark connected Thursday but did not instantly perceive back. 

The plaintiffs successful nan lawsuit are U.S. citizens Maya Parizer, Adin Gess, Noach Newman, Natalie Sanandaji, Yoni Diller, David Bromberg and Lior Bar, and Israelis Ariel Ein-Gal and Hagar Almog. 

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The suit brought connected their behalf accuses nan organizations of violating nan Antiterrorism Act and nan Alien Tort Statute and seeks compensatory damages for nan Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. 

"It is clip that Hamas and each of its agents, for illustration AMP and NSJP, beryllium held responsible for their horrific actions," nan plaintiffs said successful a associated statement. "We want to spell connected grounds to expose these groups for nan terrorists they are and make definite that they are stopped from operating successful nan United States and different countries they infiltrate."

"Since Oct. 7, our state has witnessed a shocking emergence successful antisemitism, verbal and beingness threats against Jews connected our campuses and successful our streets, vandalism, blockades, economical disruption, forbidden encampments, and dispute takeovers of world buildings – mostly and concertedly directed by Hamas and its collaborators, American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice successful Palestine," Scott J. Bornstein, elder vice president of Greenberg Traurig, said. "Until now, they person seemingly operated successful a world without consequence. With this lawsuit, we will clasp Hamas's collaborators accountable for their actions and show them and those successful sympathy pinch them that nary 1 is above, aliases beyond, nan norm of law. As nan boy of 1 of nan youngest survivors of Auschwitz, I americium proud to beryllium portion of nan squad seeking vindication for our clients." 

The title states that nan time aft Hamas slaughtered 1,200 group and took 240 others hostage, NSJP and AMP were "prepared and responded to Hamas’s ‘call for wide mobilization’ by disseminating a manifesto and scheme of onslaught ('NSJP Toolkit') which includes materials that look to person been created earlier nan attack."

"Gaza Solidarity Encampment" protesters artifact nan entranceway of Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University aft taking it complete connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024, successful New York. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

"In nan NSJP Toolkit, AMP and NSJP place themselves arsenic ‘PART of’ a ‘Unity Intifada,’ governed by Hamas’s ‘unified command’ of violent operations successful Gaza. As portion of Hamas’s movement, AMP and NSJP authorities that they activity ‘liberation,’ which they picture arsenic a ‘real process that requires confrontation by immoderate intends necessary,’ including ‘armed struggle’ and different acts of violence," nan suit says. "The plain matter of nan NSJP Toolkit confirms that AMP and NSJP do not simply assistance Hamas’s ongoing panic run overseas – they perpetuate it successful nan United States." 

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Within hours of nan attack, nan suit alleges "the connection of nan Hamas-authored disinformation run appeared successful NSJP propaganda crossed societal media and connected assemblage campuses. Exactly arsenic AMP intended, NSJP acted arsenic Hamas’s loyal ft soldiers for Hamas’s propaganda conflict connected assemblage campuses crossed nan United States." 

"The adjacent day, NSJP released its Day of Resistance Toolkit ('NSJP Toolkit') crossed much than 300 American assemblage campuses and connected nan internet," nan title says.

The toolkit, revenge arsenic an grounds accompanying nan complaint, promotes a "national call-in meeting" connected Oct. 9 that is advertised arsenic including a "how to shape a protest" convention that includes "roles, security, media training, and more." It besides seeks to recategorize nan Oct. 7 violent attacks arsenic "a historical triumph for nan Palestinian resistance" and says "across land, aerial and sea, our group person surgery down nan artificial barriers of nan Zionist entity, taking pinch it nan façade of an impenetrable settler colony and reminding each of america that nan full return and liberation to Palestine is near."

Hundreds of students extracurricular nan "Palestine Solidarity Encampment" connected nan field of UCLA successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)

The toolkit besides advertises a "National Day of Resistance" connected Oct. 12 and encourages field organizers to orchestrate teach-ins, create tables of fliers "challenging Zionist hegemony and popularizing our resistance," and provides further instructions for "messaging and framing" supporting anti-Israel agitators' statement that "when group are occupied, guidance is justified." 

The toolkit says field organizers should not usage nan position "war" aliases "conflict" – and alternatively opportunity it is simply a "struggle for nationalist liberation."

Also included are colorful, customizable graphics to usage erstwhile making societal media posts advertizing anti-Israel events connected campus. 

The suit alleges that nan organizations "are not guiltless defense groups, but alternatively nan propaganda limb of a violent statement operating successful plain sight" and "provide ongoing, continuous, systematic, and worldly support for Hamas and its affiliates" by "operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’s atrocities and normalizing its terrorism."

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"Plaintiffs – survivors of Hamas’s October 7 violent attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians still nether occurrence from Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing coercion – person been, and proceed to be, injured because AMP and NSJP knowingly supply continuous, systematic, and important assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of world terrorism," nan suit says. "AMP and NSJP are frankincense liable to Plaintiffs for nan damages they incurred because AMP and NSJP assistance and abet Hamas’s terrorism."