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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

IMRA today posts a press release from Shurat Hadin/Israel Law Center.

Shurat Hadin identifies its head, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, as "Israel's leading activist attorney" and says that at an upcoming U.S. speaking tour, Ms. Darshan-Leitner "will provide updates and analysis on the lawsuits Shurat Hadin has filed in the Israeli and American courts against Iran, Hamas, Syria, the Islamic Jihad, the PLO, the Islamic charities and the European Union on behalf of the terror victims."

Among the places Ms. Darshan-Leitner will be speaking are Young Israel of Woodmere in Long Island, Congregation Beth Jacob in Los Angeles, and shuls in White Plains and Florida.

According to Shurat Hadin's website, the organization "assist[s] the hundreds of Israeli victim’s of Arafat’s violence to finally fight back against the Palestinian terrorist groups and their financial patrons."

I used to admire Shurat Hadin. However, around March of this year, I received an e-mail from an 81 year old man who was seriously wounded in a PLO terror attack. His son was killed. He asked me whether he had any legal options.

I responded with my thoughts, and suggested that he contact Shurat Hadin. He informed me that he initially had corresponded with them, but that for months they had been completely ignoring his e-mails, perhaps because they had concluded that he did not have any legal options (it appeared that his time to commence a new action may have lapsed). Why, he asked, wouldn't they at least let him know if there was no legal recourse, rather than leave him hanging?

I sent a detailed e-mail to Shurat Hadin, reminding them about this man's inquiry and politely asked that they respond to me or to him, even with a curt statement that nothing could be done. When they failed to respond, I sent a follow-up e-mail a few weeks later. Again, no response of any kind from Shurat Hadin.

Later, through a friend at ZOA, I was able to put the man victimized by the PLO in touch with Susan Tuchman, Director of the ZOA's Center for Law and Justice. While I don't know whether ZOA was able to help him from a legal standpoint, my understanding is that they reviewed his case and answered his inquiries. In other words, they treated him with decency.

Traveling around the world promoting and raising money for Shurat Hadin is surely time consuming, but would it have been too much for Nitsana Darshan-Leitner - whose organization's mandate is supposedly to "assist the hundreds of Israeli victim’s of Arafat’s violence to finally fight back against the Palestinian terrorist groups and their financial patrons" - to answer the e-mails of a victim of Yasser Arafat?
posted on 11/23/2004