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The Forward brings word that our friends in the Israel lobby have some strange new bedfellows in the form of a former Somali cabinet minister accused of atrocities and other human rights violations. The minister is being tried in U.S. courts for his alleged crimes. Jewish groups like ZOA, Agudath Israel, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, American Jewish Congress, and the ADL argue in friend of the court briefs that our judicial system should have no jurisdiction:

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Fighting to maintain immunity for foreign officials seems to place Jewish activists far from positions they have taken in the past. Supporters of Israel actively backed legislation that paved the way for relatives of terror victims to sue terror organizations and their sponsors in American courts. Over the years, these lawsuits have yielded several rulings against Hamas, Fatah and Iran for compensation reaching hundreds of millions of dollars.