U.S. Taxpayers to File Historic Legal Complaint in DC, Charging the U.S. Government with Complicity in Genocide
May 14 2025
WHEN:
May 14, 2025 at 2:00pm
WHERE:
Zenger Room
CONTACT INFO:
Seth Donnelly
MORE INFO:
News Conference
This event is not sponsored or endorsed by The National Press Club. Inquiries should be directed to the contact above.
Media Advisory: Press Conference
U.S. Taxpayers to File Historic Legal Complaint in DC,
Charging the U.S. Government with Complicity in Genocide
Taxpayers from Both Coasts to Converge in DC
Where: The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Zenger Room on the 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045
When: Wednesday, May 14, 2 PM
Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee will hold a press conference to announce the filing of their legal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rigths (IACHR) against the U.S. government for complicity in genocide in Gaza. One plaintiff, Monadel Herzallah, who lost 43 family members to the genocide, states: “We as Palestinians in the U.S. have sought accountability in federal court but we also made a pledge to seek justice in any other possible venue available.” Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian human rights activist, best selling author, and a petitioner in this complaint, states: “I want to do everything in my power to put a stop to the unfathomable horrors that I witnessed in Gaza.”
For the press conference, Huwaida Arraf, the lead attorney and one of the founders of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, will be joined by TAG plaintiffs, Robert S. McCaw, the Government Affairs Department Director of CAIR, and Dr. Nidal Jboor, co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, along with other leaders.
Following the press conference, participants will file the complaint at the IACHR headquarters and then march to the White House.
Endorsers of the complaint include the Arab Resource Organizing Center Action, Palestinian Youth Movement, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Black Alliance for Peace, Doctors Against Genocide, CODEPINK, Friends of Latin America, and many more.
Contact:
Seth Donnelly, Taxpayers Against Genocide
(650) 814-8495