Tom Neumann quoted in The Forward in article on Prosecution for Supporting Terror Groups, 1/11/11
Pro-Palestinian Activists Slapped With Subpoenas, Sparking Free Speech
Concerns
Grand Jury Probe Seen as Opening New Front in War on Terror
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
January 11, 2011.
If an American communist website publishes a statement issued by a Palestinian terrorist group, has the communist website committed a crime?
Pro-Palestinian Activists Slapped With Subpoenas, Sparking Free Speech
Concerns
Grand Jury Probe Seen as Opening New Front in War on Terror
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
January 11, 2011.
If an American communist website publishes a statement issued by a Palestinian terrorist group, has the communist website committed a crime?
That’s a question that some Midwestern activists could face as grand jury hearings approach for members of pro-Palestinian and left-wing groups who have received subpoenas in recent months from federal prosecutors. The exact nature of the investigation is unclear, as the office of Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, would neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation. But news reports and people familiar with the subpoenas say they appear to be aimed at people who have supported groups designated by the U.S. Department of State as “foreign terrorist organizations”: in this case, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC.