Nine survivors of the October 7 terrorist attacks on southern Israel filed a federal lawsuit pointing to nationwide college protests grappling with antisemitismArguing that National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its parent organization are acting “as Hamas allies and propagandists” in the United States.
Through the NSJP, the AJP Educational Foundation Inc. – also known as American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) – allegedly “indoctrinates uninformed, misled and Influential colleges use propaganda to intimidate, influence and recruit students,” according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The lawsuit, filed by leading US and global law firm Greenberg Traurig, alleges that AMP “functions as the propaganda division of Hamas in the United States” and “senior Hamas officials after those organizations and associated individuals were found It was established from the ashes of disbanded organizations that are “criminally and civilly liable for providing material support to Hamas and other affiliated terrorist groups.”
In 2010, AMP expanded its operations American college campus That’s when it “established NSJP to take over hundreds of Students for Justice in Palestine (‘SJP’) chapters across the country,” the lawsuit says.
The complaint states, “This case is not about independent political advocacy. It is about organizations whose creation was intended to provide sustained, systematic, and substantial support to a foreign terrorist organization and its affiliates.”
Hundreds of students protest outside the “Palestine Solidarity Camp” on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
The filing alleges that “by using threats, violence, and vocal support for ‘globalization’ attacks against Jews and anyone who dares support them,” the organizations “intentionally used fear, threats, violence, and explicit “Inciting a collective culture of hatred.” Intimidate politicians and institutions for Hamas’ substantial benefit.”
The complaint also alleges that at the time it was filed, “AMP and NSJP were working – among other things – across the country to ‘force’ the US government and academia to bend to the will of Hamas.” “Coordinating the occupation of dozens of college campuses.”
Fox News Digital contacted AMP and NSJP for comment on Thursday, but did not immediately respond.
The plaintiffs in the case are US citizens Maya Pariser, Adin Guess, Noah Newman. Natalie SanandjiYoni Diller, David Bromberg and Lior Bar, and Israelis Ariel Ein-Gal and Hagar Almog.
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The lawsuit brought on their behalf accuses the organizations of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Statute and seeks compensatory damages for the October 7, 2023 attacks.
“The time has come to hold Hamas and all its agents like AMP and NSJP accountable for their terrible actions,” the plaintiffs said in a joint statement. “We want to go on record to expose these groups as terrorists and ensure that they are prevented from operating in the United States and other countries where they infiltrate.”
“Since October 7, our nation has witnessed a shocking increase in anti-Semitism, verbal and physical threats, vandalism, blockades, economic disruptions, illegal encroachments, and hostile takeovers of academic buildings against Jews on our campuses and on our streets – Largely and concretely, Scott J. Bornstein, senior vice president of Greenberg Traurig, said, “Until now, they have been leading the charge against Hamas and its allies, American Muslims for Palestine.” Working in. With this trial, we will hold Hamas associates accountable for their actions and show them and those who sympathize with them that no one is above or beyond the rule of law. As the son of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, I’m proud to be part of the team seeking vindication for our clients.”
The complaint states that the day after Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage, NSJP and AMP responded to Hamas’s ‘call for mass mobilization’ by disseminating a manifesto and attack plan (the ‘NSJP Toolkit’). Prepared and responded to, including materials. “It appears to have been built before the attack.”
“Gaza Solidarity Encampment” protesters block the entrance to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after occupying it Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Marco Postigo Storell via AP)
“In the NSJP toolkit, the AMP and NSJP identify themselves as ‘part’ of the ‘Unity Intifada’, governed by Hamas’s ‘unified command’ of terrorist operations in Gaza. As part of the Hamas movement, the AMP And the NSJP say they want ‘liberation,’ which they describe as a ‘real process that requires confrontation by any means,’ including ‘armed conflict’ and other acts of violence. ,” the lawsuit says. “The plain text of the NSJP toolkit confirms that AMP and NSJP do not merely aid Hamas’s terrorist campaign abroad – they perpetuate it in the United States.”
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Within hours of the attack, the lawsuit alleges that “the language of the disinformation campaign written by Hamas appeared in NSJP’s propaganda on social media and on college campuses. Exactly as AMP intended, NSJP distributed Hamas propaganda on university campuses. Acted as Hamas loyal foot soldiers to fight across the United States.”
“The following day, NSJP released its Resistance Day Toolkit (‘NSJP Toolkit’) on more than 300 U.S. college campuses and on the Internet,” the complaint states.
The toolkit, filed as an exhibit with the complaint, promotes a “national call-in meeting” on October 9 that is advertised as a “how to organize a protest” session that will include “roles, safety, media training. And much more.” It also seeks to reclassify the October 7 terrorist attacks as “a historic victory for the Palestinian resistance” and says that “across land, air and sea, our people has broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity, with its facade of an impenetrable settler colony and reminds each of us that the full return and liberation of Palestine is at hand.”
Hundreds of students outside the “Palestine Solidarity Camp” on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
The toolkit also advertises October 12 as “National Resistance Day” and encourages campus organizers to organize teach-ins, create tables of flyers to “challenge Zionist hegemony and popularize our resistance.” does, and provides additional instructions for “messaging and framing” to support. Anti-Israel protesters argue that “when people are occupied, resistance is justified.”
The toolkit states that campus organizers should not use the words “war” or “struggle” – and should instead say it is a “struggle for national liberation.”
The complex also includes colorful, customizable graphics to use when making social media posts advertising anti-Israel events.
The lawsuit alleges that the organizations “are not innocent advocacy groups, but are clearly the propaganda arm of a terrorist organization” and provide “continuous, ongoing, systematic, and material support for Hamas and its affiliates” by “operations and management.” We do. Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to ending Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”
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“The plaintiffs – survivors of Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those killed by Hamas, civilians still affected by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism – are members of the AMP and NSJP. The reasons have been to deliberately injure and provide sustained, systematic and substantial assistance to Hamas and its allies. acts of international terrorism,” the lawsuit states. “Thus, AMP and NSJP are liable to the plaintiffs for their losses as AMP and NSJP aid and abet the terrorism of Hamas.”
