Tag: Lawsuit
Palestinians sue State Department over aid to Israel
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Palestinians from Gaza and their U.S. relatives accuses the State Department of circumventing a law that prohibits U.S. military aid to foreign forces implicated in gross human rights abuses...
‘Another nail in UNRWA’s coffin’: Hostage family sues agency
The family of Yonatan Samerano, whose body has been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, have filed a landmark lawsuit against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
Lawsuit argues for right of churches and nonprofits to endorse candidates
The National Religious Broadcasters, the conservative organization Intercessors for America and two Baptist churches say the prohibition on tax-deductible charities endorsing politicians for office infringes on their First Amendment rights.
Lawyers representing the group filed a lawsuit...
Jewish groups to sue Belgian columnist for ‘stab a Jew’ article
The Brussels-based European Jewish Association plans to file a lawsuit on Friday against a Belgium magazine columnist who wrote that he wants to “stab every Jew in the throat with a pointed knife” over...
Rescued hostage sues US nonprofit for ties to Gaza journalist who held him
Almog Meir Jan, one of four hostages rescued in a daring IDF raid, filed suit on Tuesday against a U.S. nonprofit for employing the Arab journalist who held him captive, thereby aiding and abetting...
Oct. 7 survivors sue UNRWA
More than 100 victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court today, alleging that a scandal-plagued U.N. agency has led a long-standing money-laundering operation to the financial benefit of the terror...
Lawsuit: Jews endure ‘pervasive ostracization’ at California College of Arts
Soon after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, professors and students at California College of Arts trumpeted “Decolonization is not a dinner party,” alleges Karen Fiss, a professor at the San Francisco...
Settlement in suit against Columbia University to create ‘safe passage liaison’
A lawsuit filed against Columbia University by an unnamed Jewish student in her second year has resulted in an agreement to expand security to students who feel unsafe on campus.
On Tuesday, as part of a settlement...
Jewish students, blocked from UCLA campus, file suit against school
The University of California, Los Angeles allegedly allowed pro-Hamas protesters to prevent Jewish students from entering campus this spring, according to a lawsuit.
On Wednesday, three Jewish students—Yitzchok Frankel, Joshua Ghayoum and Eden Shemuelian—filed suit against their school, charging...
Lawsuit addresses rights violated by mandate to pay dues to anti-Israel union
Legal action will test the First Amendment question of whether or not it violates an employee’s religious freedom to mandate paying a union that has taken public positions in violation of its worker’s faith-based principles.
Jewish legal...