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Palestinian American Attorney Sues Kerry Hagel Over Military Aid to Israel
Akram Abusharar, a Palestinian-born attorney from Michigan, filed a lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, demanding they stop supplying Israel with military aid and that Israeli military officials be declared persona no grata in the U.S.
Gaza Before the Law
is a film that explores a lawsuit filed in 2014 against the US Government by Akram Abusharar, a Palestinian American lawyer based in Orange County, California. The lawsuit claims US military support of Israel violates the Leahy Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, a 1961 law which bars the US from giving military aid to any country that commits human rights violations. Gaza Before the Law intercuts footage of Gaza filmed by Abusharar after the 2014 Israeli siege with notes from the hearing and scenes from Abusharar’s law practice in Orange County. The case was dismissed by US Federal Court. Gaza Before the Law deals with the limits to law in matters of politics and how the violence of war and occupation is experienced from the Palestinian diaspora.
US-Palestine lawyer files lawsuit against Haftar with International Criminal Courts
Lawyer Akram Abu Sharar told the London-based Alquds Alarabi newspaper that he aims to investigate Haftar and verify the accusations against him regarding his commitment to multiple war crimes, especially following the discovery of mass graves in Libya.