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    Commentary: As Hamas-related lawsuits abound, we should focus on terror group’s first American victim

    by Daniel I. Schlessinger, Chicago Tribune May 24, 2024 3 minutes
    Stanley Boim, from left, and his wife Joyce, parents of David Boim, who was killed in Israel in 1996 Hamas attack, light a menorah while Michael Kotzin, right, executive vice president of the Jewish United Fund, looks on at the start of Hanukkah on Dec. 7, 2004.

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that with great tragedies come numerous lawsuits, and the atrocities of Oct. 7 are no different. After Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border, massacring more than 1,000 innocent civilians and kidnapping and transporting hundreds more to Gaza, lawyers stateside filed a suit on behalf of nine of the victims, focusing on a handful of U.S.-based groups they allege violate both the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Statute by supporting and working on behalf of Hamas.

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