The Supreme Court delivered a unanimous ruling on Friday, allowing victims of Palestinian terrorism to sue the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in U.S. courts.
This decision stems from the 2019 Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (PSJVTA), which Congress passed to enable terror victims to seek legal recourse against groups responsible for attacks.
The Court highlighted that the PSJVTA explicitly names the PA and PLO and states these entities “shall be deemed to have consented to personal jurisdiction” in cases under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 1990 under two specific conditions.
The first condition concerns the PA and PLO’s practice of paying salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to families of deceased terrorists. Congress has condemned this as providing “an incentive to commit acts of terror.”
The second jurisdictional basis relates to activities conducted by the PA and PLO on U.S. soil, according to the Daily Wire.
This ruling was based on two cases. The first, Fuld et al v. Palestine Liberation Organization et al, involved Ari Fuld, a dual American-Israeli citizen and father of four, who was fatally stabbed by a 17-year-old terrorist.
The terrorist’s family received payments under the