company:arab bank

Victims sued a Mideast bank for financing terror. Supreme Court said they can’t.
▻https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/victims-sued-mideast-bank-financing-terror-supreme-court-said-they-n868721

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that thousands of victims of terrorist attacks overseas cannot sue a foreign bank under a U.S. law dating from the 1700s.

By a 5-4 vote, the court refused to revive lawsuits, dismissed by the lower courts, that sought to hold Arab Bank, which is headquartered in Jordan, responsible for attacks against foreign nationals in the Middle East. More than 6,000 survivors and relatives of those killed in the West Bank and Gaza claimed that officials of the bank were complicit in the attacks.

Beginning in 2004, the victims filed a series of lawsuits accusing the bank of helping to finance Hamas and other terror organizations. The legal action was filed in the U.S. and aimed at Arab Bank through its branch in New York. The lead plaintiff in the case before the Supreme Court, Joseph Jesner, lost his 19-year-old son to a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

(...) The ruling does not affect a separate lawsuit bought by U.S. victims accusing Arab Bank of helping to facilitate terrorist attacks in Israel. That claim was filed under a separate law.

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Supreme Court says corporations can’t be sued under centuries-old law for overseas human rights abuses - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-says-corporations-cant-be-sued-under-centuries-old-law-for-overseas-human-rights-abuses/2018/04/24/bfa3b43e-2888-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html

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En l’occurrence seulement parce que ç’aurait tout bonnement été la porte ouverte aux poursuites contre les innombrables complices des innombrables #crimes israéliens (et le wapo qui se présente en défenseur des droits humains contre les multinationales, c’est risible)

The case at hand involved 6,000 foreign citizens who allege that the Arab Bank provided financial services to terrorists who engaged in attacks against Israelis in 2000. The bank is a multinational corporation based in Jordan with a federally chartered branch in New York.

Procès à New York d’une banque accusée de financer le Hamas - Amériques - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/ameriques/20140814-une-banque-accusee-financer-le-hamas-proces-new-york-terrorisme-credit-

La banque en question, c’est l’Arab Bank, en d’autres termes toute l’économie palestinienne et une bonne partie de celle du Proche-Orient... La presse arabe (voir al-akhbar ce jour) donne une version beaucoup moins neutre de cette énorme affaire.

Jordanian lender faces Hamas funding claims in NY trial - FT.com
▻http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/163f9e54-1f30-11e4-9689-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=crm/email/2014811/nbe/MiddleEast/product&siteedition=intl#axzz39yrsweqV

When the arguments begin, likely to be later this week, the trial is expected to focus on transactions performed by Arab Bank for charities in the Middle East and what their link was to the attacks for which Hamas claimed responsibility.
One particular charity is the Saudi Committee, which the plaintiffs argued in a court document in 2004 was part of “the backbone of the donor base and operational budgets of Hamas”.
Saudi government officials have repeatedly said that the country does not support terrorism and in 2002 the Saudi embassy in the US rejected Israeli criticism of its charities, saying that it did not finance suicide bombers but helped ordinary Palestinians. A Saudi government spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.