The firm, known as Kasowitz Benson Torres, previously fielded pro-settler, ex-U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who served under President Donald Trump. Until 2021, Kasowitz Benson Torres was registered with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) as a foreign agent acting on behalf of a principal in Israel.
According to reports, Kasowitz Benson Torres currently represents numerous professional Israel lobby activists whom The Gray Zone says are "posing as victimized 'Jewish students' and seeking to crush the free speech rights of Palestine solidarity activists."
Kasowitz Benson Torres is spearheading the antisemitism witch hunt that already cost University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill her job. The law firm is also pushing for the firing of Harvard University's Claudine Gay, who is refusing to play ball with the Zionist lobby and its speech demands.
"The firm's clients include associates of a jailed Ukrainian billionaire who bankrolled neo-Nazi militias, along with a who's who of corporations accused of defrauding and even killing consumers," The Gray Zone further reports about the work of Kasowitz Benson Torres.
"Meanwhile, the 'Jewish student' witnesses who set the stage for the attacks on Magill and her fellow university presidents at the House Antisemitism Committee were employed on at least a semi-professional basis by Israeli lobbying cutouts."
The "Jewish student" witnesses in question include:
• Harvard law student Jonathan Frieden, who moonlights as president of Alliance for Israel
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Talia Khan, president of the MIT Israel Alliance
• New York University's (NYU) Bella Ingber, co-president of NYU's Students Supporting Israel
(Related: The U.S. has sent Israel at least 5,400 MK-84 bombs to drop on Gaza – each MK-84 bomb weighs a ton.)
Pro-Israel lobby calling for COVID-era lockdowns to stop "antisemitic" speech
Kasowitz Benson Torres helped stage the December 5 House Committee on Antisemitism hearings at which Israeli-American UPenn senior Eyal Yakoby spread "harrowing" and "clearly questionable" claims that echo back to the claims of the Holocaust.
"Over the course of the last few weeks, I've ... read the statement, 'Ninety-percent of pigs are gas chambered!' on the pavement as I walked to class," Yakoby testified, apparently mistaking an animal advocate message for neo-Nazi messaging.
"The most likely explanation for the appearance of this phrase on UPenn's Locust Walk was not the presence of chalk-wielding neo-Nazis but rather, that of animal welfare advocates, who were presumably calling attention to the fact that most pigs are killed by slaughterhouses which employ a grotesque method of gas inhalation exposed by activists in late 2022," The Gray Zone reported.
Yakoby would go on to claim that his classmates and professors called him "a dirty little Jew" while telling him: "you deserve to die." Yakoby was unable, however, to actually name a single student or teacher who supposedly uttered these or other similar antisemitic words at him.
Towards the end of his bizarre testimony, Yakoby would call for the imposition of COVID-style lockdowns to punish those who speak out against Israel's war on Gaza, which has already killed well over 20,000 people.
"During COVID, strict guidelines governed everything from class attendance and graduation walks," Yakoby said. "But now, when students and faculty defy policies to intimidate Jewish students, where is the same resolute enforcement?"
Just hours after giving this testimony, Yakoby would file a lawsuit against UPenn, claiming the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to respond to his claims of "antisemitism."
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