Holy Land Foundation (Re)trial: A Decent Respect, Part III

Holy Land Foundation (Re)trial: A Decent Respect, Part III is a thorough article, but I still do not understand why Muslim charities and organizations do not use a Fourteenth Amendment based defense.

There used to be an argument that anti-terrorism laws applied only in the case of non-state terrorist groups, but Congress is in the process of recommending in Sec. 2 Findings of S.970 Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate):

(8) The Secretary of State should designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the Secretary of the Treasury should place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism).

By any objective standard the IDF is much more a terrorist organization than the IRG. If Iran is a terrorist state, Israel is much more so, and anti-terrorism laws are being enforced unequally between Jews and non-Jews.

The defendants' attorneys should be able to make a case either for striking down the anti-terrorism laws entirely or for forcing the US government to prosecute Israel-supporters, Israel advocacy organizations, and pro-Israel groups within the organized Jewish community for giving material aid to terrorism.

If a prosecutor refrains from prosecuting Jewish terrorism supporters because of his own support for Zionism or for Jewish tribalism, he may himself be guilty of a prosecutable infraction like obstruction of justice. Such a government prosecutor should at the very least be dismissed from government service. Sphere: Related Content