The chickens are finally coming home to roost for leftist agitators carrying water for Hamas and Iran by terrorizing Jews and others in the United States in the almost two years since the October 7 massacre. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil-rights lawsuit in the District of New Jersey on September 29, 2025, accusing the Party for Socialism and Liberation–New Jersey (PSL), American Muslims for Palestine–New Jersey (AMP), and six individuals for intimidating Jews at a November 13, 2024, event at Congregation Ohr Torah in West Orange, New Jersey. Accusing AMP and PSL and six individuals of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) Act, the DOJ seeks damages and injunctive relief, arguing the defendants interfered with people lawfully exercising their right to religious freedom at a place of worship.
It’s a whole new ball game now.
“Groups like PSL and AMP have been acting as foot-soldiers for Islamist intimidation in the U.S. without any real pushback for far too long,” said Jim Hanson, Chief Strategist for the Middle East Forum. “It is heartening to see the U.S. Department of Justice calling to account the Hamas mobs that have been violating the civil rights of Jews and many other American cities throughout the country.”
According to the complaint, the defendants disrupted an event centered on the Jewish obligation to live in the Land of Israel slated to take place in the New Jersey home of Moshe Glick. After a Ring camera allegedly captured defendant Tova Fry (a/k/a Terry Kay) delivering a threatening letter and photographing the residence, and after social-media posts publicized the address, organizers moved the gathering to Congregation Ohr Torah in consultation with local law enforcement and private security.
Upon learning of the venue change, AMP and PSL protestors marched to the synagogue, refused police instructions to halt, and then “surged” through a police line onto synagogue property. The filing outlines specific allegations: defendants blew vuvuzelas inches from Glick’s ear to cause injury and drown out a memorial service and Torah sermon. One of the protesters allegedly charged at Glick, after another pointed to an attendee and shouted “The Jew is here,” before placing 65-year-old David Silberberg in a chokehold and dragging him down a hill, “drilling” his head into the ground. Another defendant allegedly threw a stink bomb into the crowd.
According to the complaint, protesters chanted “You’re next!” and “Moshe Glick you can’t hide!” to threaten and intimidate attendees. Such behavior is in line with statements issued by AMP leaders over the years. “In November 2021, Osama Abu Irshaid, director of American Muslims for Palestine and a board member of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), spoke alongside terrorist members of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),” reported Sam Westrop, director of the Middle East Forum’s Islamist Watch project in 2023.
The DOJ contends the defendants’ conduct both forced the relocation from Glick’s prayer space and then disrupted access at the synagogue itself, causing congregants to miss or curtail participation. The complaint also cites what it describes as a broader pattern of disruptive protests directed at Jewish institutions, arguing that absent court intervention the violations are likely to continue.
In addition to imposing financial penalties, the complaint calls on the U.S. court to impose a permanent injunction, including buffer zones around the synagogue and Glick’s home, to bar demonstrations intended to disrupt religious services without permits within specified distances, and to award statutory compensatory damages to aggrieved individuals.
“Unless restrained, Defendants are likely to continue violating the FACE Act, given their history of targeting Jewish religious events with violence and intimidation,” the complaint states.
Prelude to Investigation into Funders?
Ryan Mauro, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, said the lawsuit could be an opening salvo into a longer campaign against the funders of extremism in the United States, most notably the Open Society Foundation established by George Soros, which according to a recent CRC report authored by Mauro, has given more than $80 million to “U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.”
“It’s a whole new ball game now. Organizations that support acts of terrorism, which would include hate-fueled harassment, are finally being held accountable, said Mauro, whose research has prompted the Trump administration to investigate the Open Society Foundation, now led by George Soros’s son, Alexander. “Not only is the government acting aggressively, but civilians outside the government like us have a bigger opportunity than ever before to make a positive difference in fighting this threat.”
Focus on Western Islamism has asked American Muslims for Palestine, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Open Society Foundation for response and will add these responses as they come in.
