Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against the Heritage Foundation, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and others, accusing them of participating in a coordinated effort to retaliate against him for his advocacy on Palestinian rights, Anadolu reports. Khalil said the case was brought under the Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era civil rights law designed to combat conspiracies to deprive individuals of their constitutional rights. “Today, I sued the Heritage Foundation, Stephen Miller, a Columbia affiliate, and others under the KKK Act,” he said, adding that this lawsuit is about “accountability and justice.” READ: Poll: 40 % of non-religious US Jews accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza Khalil, a lawful US resident and a […]
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