A federal judge in Seattle has dismissed a lawsuit by a rescued Israeli hostage alleging that a nonprofit media company was liable for hiring his captor to write articles supporting the Hamas terrorist group.
In her decision on Jan. 31, U.S. District Judge Tiffany Cartwright found that Almog Meir Jan didn’t provide enough evidence that the company knew its employee was a Hamas operative involved in human rights violations.
The judge allowed Jan to refile the suit with additional evidence and amended claims.
Jan, a citizen of Israel, was kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Nearly 400 music festival attendees were killed in the massacre….