Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president and founder of the Shurat HaDin Law Center, discussed her organization's legal work against terror at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York. Participating in a panel entitled “Courts, Campuses, and Congress – the Fight for Israel’s Narrative,” Darshan-Leitner explained how Shurat HaDin broke the PLO’s ‘Pay for Slay’ policy, in which the PLO rewarded the families of terrorists. “After litigation that lasted twenty-two years, we were able to receive a judgment against the Palestinian Authority for $655 million. When the Palestinians tried to vacate it in court, and successfully did, we fought for 10 years in court and in Congress, and we proved that the Palestinian Authority should be tried in the United States for supporting the terrorists who are killing American citizens, and got the judgment reinstated.”
Responding to a question as to how she reacts when people spread falsehoods about Israel, Darshan-Leitner said, “When people lie about Israel, I sue them.” She explained that Shurat HaDin was able to sue the Al Jazeera network, even though they are a media outlet that enjoys the right of free speech, by proving that they provided material support to terror organizations by paying money to Hamas terrorists to act as freelance reporters to give them information.
Darshan-Leitner stated that she would like to open a criminal investigation against the New York Times, noting, “I will take all the articles of the New York Times in the past three years about the war and show one by one how they took the narrative of Hamas and echoed it and blamed Israel for genocide day after day and charged Israel with war crimes and starvation. I'm going to take this report and give it to the heads of the Department of Justice here in the United States, demanding that they open a criminal investigation against the New York Times.”
This article was written in cooperation with Shurat HaDin