USA Today: More than two decades after their son was killed by Hamas in Israel, an American couple will file suit Friday in their relentless effort to crush groups that fund terror.
But the chairman and founder of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the target of the litigation, denies the group has anything to do with terrorism and calls the claim “Islamophobia.”
David Boim was a 17-year-old yeshiva student when he was fatally shot at a West Bank bus stop in May 1996. Four years later, the family sued a group of U.S.-based Palestinian charities linked to Hamas, claiming they could be held responsible for Boim’s death under federal anti-terror laws.
In 2004, Stanley and Joyce Boim won a $156 million judgment that ultimately was upheld by a federal appeals court in 2008. read more
I hope others will join them.
I hope so too, Anklestraps. The loss of a child cannot be forgotten…I went through that the same year.
May the Boims be comforted with success this time also.