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Bankrupting
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Shurat HaDin Israel Law CenterWhile terrorist groups conceal their methods of operation and rely upon the assistance of
outlawed regimes and rogue states for material support, protection and other resources,
they continue to remain vulnerable in one area: their wallets. Without funds, terrorist
groups cannot recruit members, buy weapons nor carry out training. Without financial
support, terrorist organizations cannot create a civil infrastructure to garner popular
support nor organize and carry out their criminal activities. While previously, terror money
flowed freely through Western financial
institutions, front charities and
apathetic states, one organization has
succeeded in obstructing the terroristgroups and forcing them to constantly
search for new means of financing their
violent crimes: Shurat HaDin.
Bankrupting
TerrorismShurat HaDin Israel Law Center
is a world leader in the fight to stop
terrorist funding. By using legal actionand civil lawsuits, Shurat HaDin assists
in bankrupting terror groups and
grinding their activity to a halt. Based
in Tel Aviv, and directed by Attorney
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat
HaDin works with western intelligence
agencies and a network of volunteer
lawyers around the world to file legal actions on behalf of terror victims. Shurat HaDin
has successfully disrupted the terrorist groups and helped their victims to strike back at
those responsible for devastating their lives.
Shurat HaDin follows the pioneering model employed by the Alabama-based Southern
Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that for decades has effectively confronted
and shut down racist groups across the United States. We represent hundreds of terror
victims in legal actions against Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, North Korea, the Palestinian
Authority, Iran, and Syria. We have also taken legal measures against numerous financial
institutions used by the terrorists, such as UBS AG, the Lebanese-Canadian Bank, American
Express Bank, and the Bank of China.
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Shurat HaDin is rallying the terror victimsand the larger world community to do whatgenerations of Jews were prohibited fromdoing striking back at the Islamic haters.
Our ObjectivesStopping the flow of money to terrorists through the use of civil suits and other legal means.Achieving justice and compensation for terror victims from terrorist organizations, their
sponsors, and the financial institutions that aid and abet their criminal activities.
Combating the global effort by Israel's enemies to de-legitimize, boycott and wage "lawfare"
against the Jewish state.
Training the next generation of activist attorneys and legal advocates to fight for the rights of
the worldwide Jewish community and Israel.
Leading the private sector's war on terrorism.
We tend to think of the fight against terrorism as a task that falls mainly on the shoulders of electedofficials and governments, whether it is their law enforcement, military, diplomatic or intelligence
agencies. Nonetheless, Shurat HaDin has proven that there is one area where private citizens
can uniquely play a leading role - stopping the funds available to the enemies of Israel and the
Jewish People. Since the 1990s Western countries, and especially the United States, have legislated
laws making it possible for terror victims to sue the regimes that sponsor terror, banks that transfer
funds to terror groups, front charities established to assist the extremist groups, and even the
terrorists themselves. Thus, Shurat HaDin's legal campaigns have empowered the terror victims
and their families to fight back.
Safeguarding the Jewish StateIn addition to our litigation on behalf of terror victims, Shurat HaDin is at the forefront of the
battle for Israeli security and safeguards Jewish rights worldwide. Shurat HaDin joined forces
with the Israeli Navy, the IDF and the Prime Minister's Office, and utilized legal actions to blockthe planned Gaza Flotilla from breaching the Israeli coastal blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip. We are engaged in the struggle against the Islamic Authority's (Waqf) destruction of ancient
Jewish artifacts on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. We act on behalf of IDF soldiers accused of war
crimes or employing unnecessary force against Palestinian rioters, and fight to secure the release
of Jewish captives around the world. We are filing lawsuits to combat anti-Semitic organizations,
and leading the fight against those calling for boycotts and sanctions against the Jewish state.
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More than anything else, the victims ofPalestinian terror no longer want to bemerely victims - They want to strike backat those that devastated their lives, they wantcompensation they demand justice!
Record Achievements1. Shurat HaDin has demonstrated the strong link between money and terrorism, as well
as liabilities that courts will assign to state sponsors and financial institutions that aid and
abet terrorism. It has succeeded in winning more than $1 billion in judgments against terrorist
organizations and their patrons.
2. We have collected more than $120 million in actual payments to the victims and their
families, and have frozen more than $600 million in terror assets.
3. By targeting the banking system in Gaza and other Palestinian terror centers, and stopping
international wire transfers, Shurat HaDin has assisted in driving Hamas and other extremist
groups to resort to smuggling funds using underground methods. According to one Mossad
official, our civil actions have actually reduced terrorist activity in the Hamas-controlled Gaza
Strip by 60 percent!
4. We assisted in causing Iran to pull its assets out of Europe, shifting its business to Asia,
and blocked its ability to obtain hard currencies.
5. Fear of civil lawsuits has compelled international banks to close accounts alleged to be
linked to terrorism and thoroughly investigate new customers suspected of being terror-funding
fronts.
6. We forced companies, businesses, and universities to disconnect from suspected terror
affiliates out of fear of civil and criminal liability.
7. We have assisted the Israeli government and military to sink the Gaza Flotilla utilizing civil
actions in jurisdictions around the globe.
8. We brought a Spanish court to drop a war crimes indictment against IDF soldiers by
preparing to bring similar action against a senior Spanish official.
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Continuing the FightShurat HaDin is at the forefront of the struggle against Israel's enemies, both by tracking the
channels that finance terrorism and utilizing legal action wherever possible to obstruct them.
But beyond litigation, Shurat HaDin seeks to alert international financial institutions to the
methods used by terrorists to move their illicit funds. It is our goal to target the banks and
financial institutions that intentionally turn a blind eye or recklessly refuse to investigate who
is receiving their services.
As an international organization, Shurat HaDin does not remain on the defensive we
endeavor to take the battle to the Israel haters themselves. Utilizing cutting edge litigation, in
which there are frequently no applicable precedents, requires a thoroughly creative approach, andthe employment of innovative thinking outside the traditional box. We continue to bring civil
actions in the relatively unchartered waters of the Anti-Terrorism Act, Alien Torts Statute, and
torture victim protection conventions, civil rights laws, consumer fraud statutes, the IRS codes,
state and federal education laws, civil RICO and whistleblower statutes, as well as traditional
common law causes of action. Shurat HaDin is determined to make the private sector have a
role in initiating bold action, that governments are restrained from using, in order to help win
the war against the terrorists.
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Litigating for IsraelInterview with Shurat HaDin's Founder and Director,
Att. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
American Thinker, February 12, 2012
Ever since Moses receivedthe Ten Commandments,the history of the Jewishpeople has been interwovenwith law. An additional613 commandments in the
Torah were explicated inthe Talmud, collected in the16th-century Code of JewishLaw (Shulchan Aruch) andinterpreted and enforced overthe centuries by rabbinicalcourts.
Since 1948 the State of Israelhas had its own legal system,populated by the usual arrayof lawyers and judges. Butuntil recently it lacked whathas long been conspicuousin the American legal world:private defense organizations(such as the American CivilLiberties Union) litigating
vital constitutional issues.
Just such an organizationwas founded in 2003 byNitsana Darshan-Leitner, anIsraeli lawyer with a mission.Her American model was theSouthern Poverty Law Center,which had successfully filed
legal challenges to thwart
the Ku Klux Klan and othersit deemed racist. She wasdetermined "to go afterterrorists in the same way" inwhich the Center pursued itsfoes: through civil litigation.Named Shurat HaDin, theIsrael Law Center has becomethe bane of anti-Israel groupsthroughout the world.
Shurat HaDin has instigated
litigation against a range ofperpetrators and abettors ofterrorism. Its targets haveincluded Iran (for its role ina Hamas suicide bombingin Jerusalem), the Lebanese-Canadian Bank and the Bankof China Ltd. (for transferringfunds to Hezb'allah), andthe government of Egypt(for abetting the smugglingof weapons into Gaza). Its
efforts have been rewardedwith substantial judgmentstotaling more than $700million.
The Law Center, through itsAmerican office, has begunto monitor the rampant anti-
Semitism and anti-Zionism in
colleges and universities. Ithas informed the presidentsof academic institutionsthat their schools could facecivil and criminal liability fortolerating "an environmentof intimidation and hostility"that fails to protect Jewishand Israeli students againstanti-Semitic harassment.
To be sure, Shurat HaDin
does not always win --even in Israel. The HighCourt of Justice dismissedits petition on behalf ofthe families of missingIranian Jews as a matter of"diplomatic concern" to besettled through governmentchannels. Its attempt toblock the recent exchangeof more than one thousandPalestinian prisoners for
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalitwas thwarted.
But when it wins, it wins big.By far its most impressiverecent achievement wasto stymie the plan for asecond flotilla to breech
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the Israeli blockade of Gaza.This flotilla's notoriouspredecessor, the so-called"Freedom Flotilla," becamea major public relationsdisaster for Israel after Israelinaval commandos boardedthe Mavi Marmara in anattempt to divert the ship toAshdod for inspection. Afteran assault from passengersarmed with knives and iron
bars, the ensuing struggleresulted in the deaths ofnine assailants -- and thepredictable worldwide stormof criticism against Israel.
The second attempt, lastJune, provided Shurat HaDinwith another opportunity. Itwarned maritime insurancecompanies in Europe and
Turkey that if they provided
the required insurance, theycould be held legally liablefor "aiding and abetting" aterrorist organization. AFrench insurance companyresponded by refusing toinsure a ship that wasprepared to sail fromMarseilles.
With cooperation from theIsraeli government, eager
to abort the mission andavoid another round ofvituperative castigation, Shurat
HaDin notified a satellitecommunication companythat it faced legal action ifit provided service to theflotilla. It also filed a lawsuit
for violation of the NeutralityAct in federal court in New
York.
And, to cover all bases,Shurat HaDin notified thegovernment of Greecethat its own NeutralityAct prohibited ships fromsailing to illegal ports(including Gaza). Lacking thenecessary insurance or proper
registration, the flotilla wasprevented by the governmentfrom departing.
A passenger complainedthat her journey had beenthwarted by a "right-wing Israeli law center."Nitsana Darshan-Leitnercheerfully acknowledgedthe triumphant strategy of"lawfare."
Shurat HaDin recentlylaunched forays against majorcommunication companies.It notified Twitter (but notby a "tweet") that permittingHezb'allah and other foreignterrorist organizations tomaintain accounts violatedAmerican laws prohibitingassistance or support toterrorists, exposing thecompany to legal action
from terror victims andtheir families. Last month itdelivered a similar warningto Verizon to halt its phoneservice to PLO offices in
Washington.
Most recently, it quicklypersuaded Delta Airlines thatBen-Gurion Airport in Israelis not, as its frequent flyerprogram on a Middle Easternwebsite suggested, locatedin "occupied territory."
From ports to airports, andmany places in between, the"lawfare" campaign wagedby Shurat HaDin reveals the
enduring power of law inJewish tradition -- with aninnovative Israeli twist.
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Director of Shurat HaDin, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Awarded Prestigious Zionism PrizeApril 4, 2012
The director of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, NitsanaDarshan-Leitner, was recently chosen as a winner of this
year's prestigious Moskowitz Foundation Prize for Zionism.
The annual recognition, "Lion of Zion" Moskowitz Prize for
Zionism, seeks to bestow "support for peopleacting for the
benefit of the common good in order to ensure the strength
and resilience of the national Jewish homeland." In October 2011, Attorney Darshan-Leitner
was previously named by Globes, Israel's leading business newspaper, as one of the Jewish
state's 50 Most Influential Women. "I was surprised, thrilled and deeply moved to have been
chosen to be awarded these honors," remarked Attorney Darshan-Leitner. "Being recognized
inspires all of us to be ever vigilant, innovative and even more deeply committed to using
legal activism against the terror groups, and for using advocacy on behalf of the State of
Israel, the IDF and the Jewish people," she added. In selecting Darshan-Leitner, the Moshkowtz
Foundation's Prize committee noted her "dedication, day in and day out, to preserving the
honor of Israel and to pressing the legal case against those who seek to harm it."
Shurat HaDin Warns PLO's Landlord andTelephone ProviderJanuary 24, 2012
The landlord of the Palestine Liberation Organizations(PLO) office in Washington DC and Verizon Communications
Company were warned today that providing premises, phone
lines and other related services to this organization was illegal,
and that doing so would expose their companies to both
criminal prosecution and civil liability by Americans and others who have been victimized by
PLO-sponsored terrorism. The letters, signed by American counsel Robert Tolchin of New York
and director of Shurat HaDin Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, demanded that Endeka Enterprises andVerizon permanently cease providing premises and services to the PLO. The lawyers noted
that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, officially designated under US law as
a terrorist organization, was the PLO's second largest faction and designated as a terrorist
organization. In addition, the PLO had recently reached a strategic partnership with Hamas
and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Thus, it was stressed that in providing services to the PLO,
companies like Endeka and Verizon are in fact aiding and benefiting terrorist groups, thereby
violating US federal anti-terrorism laws and bolstering Palestinian terrorism.
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Shurat HaDin Spurs Canceling of Columbia's"Haman Banquet"September 26, 2011
Shurat HaDin decided to act quickly uponlearning that Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who was attending the United
Nation's opening ceremony in September, had
been invited to a dinner by a group of Columbia
University students. We recalled that Columbia had also shamefully invited the Iranian tyrant back
in 2007 and allowed him to speak on the campus, providing him with a legitimate platform to
present his extremist views and calls for Israel's destruction. The student group, the Columbia
International Relations Council Association, which had planned the "Haman banquet" for the
Iranian leader, was one of Columbia's largest campus-funded organizations. Shurat HaDin sent
a letter to Columbia University's President Lee Bollinger, warning him that hosting Ahmadinejad
was in violation of American anti-terror laws, therefore subjecting the institution to both criminal
prosecution and civil liability by those who had fallen victim to Iranian-sponsored terrorism. The
letter, signed by New York Attorney Robert Tolchin and Shurat HaDin's director Attorney Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner, pointed out that Iran was the leading state sponsor of global terrorism and
"that the provision of any support by US personsis considered an unlawful provision of aid to
the outlawed regime." The letter noted that Teheran has repeatedly called for genocide against
the Jewish people and was the main sponsor of terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad
and Hamas, which had already killed thousands of American citizens. Due to our swift action,
Columbia University officials backed away from the event, claiming it was planned by a "private"
student group. Ongoing public furor finally led to the canceling of the dinner.
Victories Overthe Bank of China
July 2011
Two cases were filed against the main Chinese bankBank of China (BOC), on behalf of terror victims.
In both cases plaintiffs alleged that the BOC aided
and abetted the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist
organizations, and provided them financial services. The plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits are 80victims and family members of victims of attacks perpetrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad between
2004 and 2007 in Israel. The BOC has been defending itself aggressively in the preliminary stages,
filing motions to dismiss and raising the argument that the US is an inconvenient forum, while
demanding to have the case heard in a Chinese court. Shurat HaDin had to hire several experts
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in Chinese law to refute these allegations and assert that Chinese judges, acting under strictgovernment control, would not give these plaintiffs a fair day in court. Thus far, the BOCs
motions have failed. In July 2011, the New York Supreme Court rejected the motion to dismiss
filed by the BOC, and handed down a monumental ruling, holding that our lawsuit can proceed
against the BOC in the United States. Earlier, in October 2010, the Washington DC federal
court rejected a similar motion by the BOC in another of our cases. This case was filed on behalf
of the family of a young student from Florida who was murdered in a Hamas bombing attack in
Israel in 2006, where the father was badly injured as well. Both cases are going to trial.
Sinking the Gaza FlotillaJune 2011
Shurat HaDin embarked on a successful campaign to legallyblock the provocation Flotilla from breaching the Israeli
coastal blockade of the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. On
June 12, numerous boats loaded with contraband and up
to a thousand passengers, including members of the EU
Parliament, intended to set sail for Gaza from Greece, Turkey,
France, Ireland and Cyprus. The flotilla organizers were
hoping, once again, to provoke a massive public confrontationwith the IDF and compel Israeli soldiers to use force to detain them, thereby creating further
international condemnation of the Israel. Working with Israeli naval Intelligence, the IDF and
the Prime Minister's Office, Shurat HaDin devised a legal strategy to block the extremists from
setting sail. We employed a 3-pronged legal attack:
1. We sent warning letters to the top maritime insurance companies, causing most to cancel
their insurance of the boats headed to Gaza.
2. We filed a cutting edge lawsuit in the U.S. to seize the ships set to join the flotilla, contending
that furnishing and outfitting ships that were to be used for hostilities against a U.S. ally
violated a rarely-utilized section of the Neutrality Act, which allows a plaintiff to seize the
property.
3. We sent warning letters to, and filed a lawsuit against, the UK and US based global satellite
company INMARSAT, alleging that it was providing communication services to ships used by
suspected terror organizations and seeking a permanent injunction.
Additionally, we filed a complaint with the Greek Coast Guard that led the Greek authorities to
detain the ships that were docked there. Due to these innovative legal tactics, the flotilla boats
were blocked from ever leaving their ports.
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Federal Court Holds Terror Victims Can SeizeHamas FundsMay 11, 2011
In a historic courtroom victory for the victims of Palestinianterror - this one against the U.S. Department of Justice(DOJ) and the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the Court in
Dallas ruled that the right of the plaintiff families to collect
on their judgments against the terrorist groups, their front-charity organizations and the outlaw
regimes, overrides the government's right to confiscate the terrorists' assets. Attorneys for the
victims were successful in arguing that they, rather than the U.S. government, had the right to
capture terrorist funds. The DOJ had asserted that the suspected Hamas funds had to be seized
under the criminal forfeiture statutes. We countered that under the newly legislated Terror Rick
Insurance Act ("TRIA") the victims' rights to collect trumps the criminal forfeiture statute (as well as
every other provision of law), and that the terror victims rights overrides the DOJs. After a long
litigation battle the court declared, in its precedent decision, that the victims families were correct
and entitled to the Islamic terror groups funds. The court ruled that putting seized terrorist assetsinto the hands of the terror victims truly furthers the congressional intent of the criminal forfeiture
statute and of TRIA. It concluded that: TRIA overrides any protection from execution the blocked
HLF property might have due to criminal forfeiture law.
Federal Court Rules Against the PA/PLO in aBillion Dollar LawsuitApril 4, 2011
In a case, brought by 11 American families, plaintiffs alleged thatthe PA and PLO funded and directed the terrorist Fatah Tanzim
and Martyrs of al-Aqsa organizations during the Intifada in the
years relevant to the lawsuit, 2001 to 2004. The defendants are
accused of numerous Jerusalem-area terrorist attacks that killed
33 people and wounded hundreds of others including many
U.S. citizens. The families had loved ones killed and injured in the Hebrew University cafeteria
bombing, suicide bombings on King George Street and at a shooting attack on Jaffa Road, as well
as other Jerusalem area attacks. The plaintiffs contend that the PA and PLO under Arafat's direction
had a formal policy of carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and sought, as is their
custom, to hide behind front-groups such as Fatah Tanzim and the Martyrs of al-Aqsa in order to
provide a measure of deniability internationally. The Fatah Tanzim and Martyrs of al-Aqsa groups
were secretly made up of Arafat's security personnel and were financed by the PA. When the case
proceeds to trial it will provide the best platform yet to publicly present proof that despite its
obligations under the Oslo Accords and all its international posturing and denials, the PA itself was
actively engaged in terrorist attacks and attempted to utilize suicide bombings and shootings as a
tactic to strengthen its hand in negotiations with Israel. Far from a "spontaneous uprising," the case
will prove that the Intifada was actually planned and carried out under Arafat's supervision and by
terrorists on his payroll.
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Shurat HaDin Mentioned in Confidential"Palestine Papers"March 16, 2011
In January, Al-Jazeera published thousands of pages of confidentialdocuments leaked by a source within the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The network possessed some 1,700 documents, dated between 1999
and 2010, containing private and confidential memos, papers, emails
and minutes. These so-called "Palestine Papers" created an international
uproar which embarrassed the PA. Interestingly enough, a June 6, 2008
document told of a meeting between PA lawyers and Israeli State Attorney officials, in which
cases brought by Shurat HaDin on behalf of terror victims were discussed. Palestinian lawyers
attempted to receive assistance from Israel in having these cases dismissed. Additionally,
Palestinian representatives sought to cancel liens placed on behalf of terror victims on their
funds at Israel's Finance Ministry, arguing that attaching Palestinian money collected by Israel
was in violation of the Oslo Accords. At the meeting, however, Israeli officials refused to provide
any assistance to the Palestinians, declaring that it was up to Israel's courts to decide on the
cases brought by Shurat HaDin. These leaked documents underline the type of pressure Shurat
HaDin's litigation has caused the PA and PLO over their involvement in terrorism. We have
continued to send a powerful message to Palestinian officials to desist from involvement in
criminal activities.
Shurat HaDin Explores Legal Action AgainstFacebookMarch 17, 2011
When Palestinian extremists created Facebook pagescalling for a "Third Intifada" against Israel, Shurat HaDin
swung into action. As rioting and revolution swept the
Arab world at the time, the "Third Intifada" page creators
hoped to unleash Palestinian unrest against Israel. One page, created on March 6, and havinghundreds of thousands of "Likes," designated May 15, 2011 as "Third Intifada day," a date it
urged Muslim states and Palestinians to act to "liberate" the Jewish state. These individuals had
asked sympathetic Facebook users to help disseminate the page so that this call of destroying
Israel could be spread. The page boldly declared: "After the Tunisian Intifada, the Egyptian
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Intifada and the Libyan Intifada, it's now time for the Palestinian Intifada." It is apparent that
the organizers of this page were hoping to incite violent rioting and mass public disturbances,
fermenting throughout the Islamic world, against Israel. It was clear that seeking to stir up
this violent turmoil against the Middle East's sole democracy would lead to the injuring of
hundreds of Israelis, as previously occurring during the Second Intifada. Although this page
was eventually removed, Shurat HaDin sent the social networking site a warning letter, and has
begun to investigate possible legal actions that can stop future provocations.
Federal Court Ordered to Reconsider Caseagainst UBSSeptember 3, 2010
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ordered adistrict judge to reconsider an earlier ruling in a case against
the Swiss banking giant UBS AG. The plaintiffs, represented
by Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Shurat HaDin
and New York attorneys Robert Tolchin and Nathan Tarnor,
were victims of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Iran-sponsored extremist groups Hamas, Islamic
Jihad and Hezbollah. The victims alleged that UBS AG knowingly provided currency and banking
services to the Iranian government in violation of US law prohibiting these links. District JudgeJed Rakoff previously rejected these arguments, holding that financial transactions with Iran
could have multiple legitimate uses besides funding terrorism. After appealing the ruling, the
Court of Appeals noted that Judge Rakoff made his decision before the US Supreme Court handed
down its verdict in Holder v. HumanitarianLaw Project, which made it illegal to provide
consulting services to a terrorist organization. The ruling rejected the argument that there
was a distinction between humanitarian and militant wings of a terrorist group, stressing that
supplying any sort of help lightens a terror group's overall financial burden, therefore allowing
it to devote more resources to militant attacks. Shurat HaDin is hopeful that the district court
will now recognize that if giving simple advice to a terrorist group makes one liable for aiding
terrorists, then certainly illegally providing millions of dollars in cash transactions to a regime
makes UBS liable for resulting terrorist crimes as well.
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Former Iranian PresidentKhatami is Served Witha Lawsuit for KidnappingPersian Jews
In September 2006, Shurat HaDin filed a $1 billion legal action against
the former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami in the New York federal
court on behalf of the families of 12 Persian-Jews who are being unlawfully
held in Iranian prisons. The plaintiffs were arrested while trying to escape
across the border. On September 9, 2006, Khatami (pictured above receivingthe complaint) was handed the court papers at an Islamic conference in
Virginia, hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.),
while on a US speaking tour.
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Be a partner. Join us in our fight!Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is a fully independent non-profit
organization, unaffiliated with any political party or governmental body.
Because the vast majority of our activities do not result in compensation
for our attorneys, Shurat HaDins budget relies almost entirely on the
generosity of donors.
To make a tax-deductible donation in the USplease make your
check payable to CFI and earmark it to Shurat HaDin.
Please send the check to Shurat HaDin c/o Berkman Law Office,
111 Livingston St. Brooklyn, NY 11201.
To make a tax-deductible donation in Canada please make your
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111 Livingston St. Brooklyn, NY 11201.
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