The plaintiffs trace their case back to the 1948 Nakba (Israel's displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians) and up to the present day to demonstrate Israel's persistent violations of human rights and international law. The lawsuit notes that in September, for example just weeks before Hamas's attack on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a map before the U.N. General Assembly titled "The New Middle East" that totally erased the existence of Palestine.
"Despite escalating evidence of Israeli policies directed at inflicting mass harm to the Palestinian population in Gaza," the Biden administration has opposed "a life-saving cease-fire and lifting of the siege, even vetoing United Nations measures calling for a ceasefire," the lawsuit continues. "Instead, their actions to fund, arm, and endorse Israel's mass and devastating bombing campaign and total siege of the Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a failure to prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development."
The 86-page lawsuit, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in a California federal district court can be seen here.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a progressive, non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, founded in 1966 by Arthur Kinoy, William Kunstler and others particularly to support activists in the implementation of civil rights legislation and to achieve social justice. CCR has focused on civil liberties and human rights litigation, and activism. Since winning the landmark case in the United States Supreme Court of Rasul v. Bush (2004), establishing the right of detainees at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp to challenge their status in US courts and gain legal representation, it has provided legal assistance to people imprisoned there and gained release for many who were unlawfully held or proven not to be a risk to security.
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