Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division (second from the left) announces a FACE Act lawsuit Monday against pro-Palestinian protests. Photo courtesy of Department of Justice Civil Rights Division/X
Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is targeting pro-Palestinian protesters with a civil rights lawsuit filed under a law intended to protect healthcare clinics from anti-abortion activists.
The Justice Department announced the lawsuit Monday in a press conference against six people and two organizations, including the New Jersey chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, in connection to the Nov. 13 protest held outside the Congregation of Ohr Torah in West Orange, N.J.
The protest of about 50 masked demonstrators outside the synagogue was against a real estate event being held there promoting property in Israel and the West Bank, which Palestinians and much of the international community regard as illegally occupied by Israel.
The lawsuit filed Monday accuses the protesters of engaging in "a coordinated effort to intimidate and disrupt Jewish worshipers at a religious event."
