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I have spent 25 years dragging terrorist groups, their leaders and their bankers into courtrooms and taking their money for their victims. I know what a terror operation looks like when it puts on a suit. This week my NGO, the Shurat HaDin Law Center, placed a complaint on the desk of the Attorney General of the United States, and I will say plainly what our petition documents in eight pages of receipts: The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation is a hunting operation. Its prey is Jews.
Let the record speak. HRF’s chairman, Dyab Abou Jahjah, told the world in his own words that he joined the outlawed Hezbollah resistance against Israel and received military training, and he called it a source of pride.
Israel’s government identifies him as a former Hezbollah terrorist. He has boasted of personally arranging European visits for the political leadership of Hezbollah, an organization the United States has designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. This is the man the world’s newsrooms keep describing as a human-rights advocate. A Hezbollah alumnus does not retire into humanitarianism. He changes uniforms.
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And look at what his foundation actually does, because it is not advocacy. It is target acquisition. HRF scrapes soldiers’ social media, harvests their faces, maps them to their units, tracks their flights and then springs frivolous criminal complaints on them in whatever airport they land in.
Sixteen jurisdictions. A claimed dossier on a thousand names at the International Criminal Court. And after all of it, the scoreboard reads zero, zip, nada! Not one court, anywhere on Earth, has found one of these soldiers guilty of anything.
Dismissals, rejections, refusals, releases. Totally baseless claims repeatedly filed. HRF does not care, because conviction was never the product. The terror is the product. The knock on the hotel-room door is the product. The reservist who cancels his honeymoon, the student who withdraws from a foreign university, the young officer who learns her name sits in a foreign dossier: these are the trophies.
They pluck random names off the internet, conjure up fake claims and then run off to file them with never any consequences for their rejected lies. This is intimidation and malicious harassment laundered through court clerks, an abuse of the well-intended universal jurisdiction statutes and every honest jurist on earth should be insulted by it.
There is an old and rotten tradition of dressing the persecution of Jews in the language of law. Every blood libel and every pogrom had their paperwork too.
What HRF has built is that tradition running on modern infrastructure: one people, and one people only, marked for pursuit across every border on the planet, not for anything a judge has found they did, but for the crime of defending the Jewish state against murderous extremists.
Quite rightly, American veterans fly wherever they wish. British veterans, French veterans, the same. Only the brave Jewish serviceperson who wears a uniform is made a fugitive in advance. Call that what it is. It is antisemitism with a filing fee.
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Now hear the part that should make every American’s blood run cold. This machine has crossed your border. HRF denounced an Israeli American soldier to authorities in Sri Lanka, and when that same American came home to watch the World Cup on American soil, HRF demanded that the United States Department of Justice prosecute him.
Absorb that sentence. An outfit chaired by a self-proclaimed Hezbollah trainee, funded by donors it refuses to name, compiled a dossier on a United States citizen and ordered his arrest by his own government.
If a Russian-funded front group did this to an American veteran, we would call it what it is: a hostile foreign influence operation aimed at the heart of American sovereignty.
And it is running in the dark. No published donors. No financial disclosures. A Stripe button and a shrug, behind a campaign whose global legal apparatus costs a fortune someone is quietly paying. Federal law was built for exactly this.
The FARA legislation exists to drag foreign agents into the light. OFAC exists to strangle terror finance. The material-support terrorism statutes exist to punish those who service designated killers. Our complaint asks the Department of Justice to bring all of it: subpoenas, financial tracing, sanctions referral, the full weight of the United States. Not a press release. An investigation of HRF with teeth.
I have beaten Iran’s bankers in court. I have taken judgments against the mightiest terror sponsors on earth and collected. So believe me when I tell you the leaders of this operation are not brave, and they are not untouchable; they are simply unexamined. That ends now. Today they hunt Jews who served their country. The weapon they are perfecting, this dangerous lawfare, will fit anyone’s hand and anyone’s enemy. America should break it while it still bears their fingerprints.
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