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NEW @FreeBeacon: Attorney for Anti-Israel Activist Who Blocked DC Traffic Cites Fictitious Case in Motion to Dismiss Class Action Suit, Suggesting AI Wrote It

The error comes as judges push for 'more severe sanctions' for attorneys who cite AI slop 🧵

A radical attorney representing an anti-Israel leader who helped organize an illegal traffic blockade in Washington, D.C., tried dismissing a class action lawsuit against his client by citing fictitious case law, suggesting the document was written by an AI chatbot, like ChatGPT.

The lawsuit, filed in Jan. by @HamLincLaw on behalf of drivers trapped in their cars, accuses several anti-Israel organizations, including JVP, the Palestinian Youth Movement, and Maryland2Palestine, among others, of shutting down key roadways in the nation's capital on Feb. 1, 2024, for close to an hour.

Abdel-Rahman Hamed, the counsel for MD2Palestine and its co-chair, Hannah Shraim, filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on June 30. But when HLLI attorneys reviewed the filing, they found Hamed cited case law that didn't exist.

Hamed's "brief includes phony citations that suggest improper reliance on AI or excessive carelessness and may require court attention," HLLI's attorneys wrote in their July 30 response opposing the motion.

Hamed, like his client, is an anti-Israel activist. On Feb. 25, 2024, he valorized Aaron Bushnell, the airman who lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest the Jewish state's war in Gaza.

His comment echoed Hamas's statement, which called Bushnell a "heroic pilot" who "will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people."
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Months earlier, Hamed appeared to justify the radicalization of Hamas's founders, noting that while children, they either had their families killed or were exiled. "Now, reflect on what Israel is doing in Palestine today, and since 1948," he wrote in the Dec. 18, 2023, post.

Hamed's LinkedIn bio, meanwhile, reads "I deny, defy, and defeat Zionists, antisemites, and White Supremacists."

In a separate post he wrote, "Palestinian Jews, Christians, and Muslims will rid themselves of and be free from the European-borne malignancy of Zionism and antisemitism (two sides of the same coin). It's only a matter of time."

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