From Judge Tiffany Cartwright (W.D. Wash.) in Friday's Jan v. People Media Project:
Plaintiff Almog Meir Jan is an Israeli citizen who was kidnapped on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas operative Abdallah Aljamal before being rescued by the Israel Defense Forces…. Jan alleges that Defendants employed and compensated Aljamal as a journalist and provided him a U.S.-based platform to publish articles supporting Hamas. Jan asserts that through these actions, Defendants aided and abetted his kidnapping and imprisonment as well as aided and abetted terrorism in violation of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350.
The court rejected the claims based on payment to Aljamal, for reasons I note in a separate post. But here is the court's explanation for rejecting the claims based on publishing pro-Hamas propaganda:
