The Supreme Court allows terrorist victims to prosecute Palestinian entities

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the victims of terrorism can prosecute Palestinian entities in the American courts, and support a law approved by Congress, which allows such allegations.

The court unanimously concluded that the 2019 law, which was called the law to promote security and justice to the victims of terrorism, does not violate the rights of legal procedures due to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.

Judge John Roberts wrote before the court: As such, the law “corresponds to the condition of legal procedures.”

It was an extraordinary case in which Congress entered into legislation on specific cases after the New York -based American Appeal Court that the American courts had no jurisdiction to hear claims.

The lawsuits, which were placed under a law called the Anti -Terrorism Law, were brought by many victims, including the Ary Fold family, an American citizen who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist in a commercial center of the West Bank in 2018. Other prosecutors participating in litigation had previously won by a virtue of $ 655 million over the lower court.

The technical legal question was whether the defendants were “agreed” to the jurisdiction of the American courts.

The Congress concluded in the 2019 law that they agreed if two conditions were fulfilled: that the defendants paid a convicted terrorist or were killed during a terrorist attack, and that the relevant organization conducted any activity within the United States within 15 days after the enactment of the law.

The Palestine Liberation Organization represents the Palestinian people internationally, while the Palestinian Authority is practicing the authority of the local partial government in the West Bank.