A D.C. court has ordered prominent anti-Israel activists to pay a rabbi $182,000 for falsely accusing him in court of “stalking” after he prayed at the Israel embassy, which they staked out for months in a protest.
Hazami Barmada, who “held several high-level positions at the United Nations” and in 2023 “joined the faculty of George Washington University,” and Atefeh Rokhvand, founder of Teachers Against Genocide, abused the court system by seeking a restraining order against Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia’s Domestic Violence Division ruled last week. The restraining order could have essentially prevented the rabbi from coming near the Israel embassy, because the pair was leading an around-the-clock protest there.
Video contradicted statements in the activists’ legal filings and showed that the rabbi had peacefully prayed at the…
