Gerard Filitti, at The Blogs

Gerard Filitti

Human Rights Attorney

Sep 30, 2021, 9:56 AM

Ignoring hate crimes marginalizes Jewish community

On September 13, Camwren Cole allegedly walked into a pediatrician’s office in Teaneck, New Jersey—a town with a sizeable Jewish population—and, with a hammer in his hand and blood dripping on his arm, confronted a woman and asked, “Are...

Sep 8, 2021, 10:54 PM

September 11, Twenty Years Later

At just after 9 am on September 11, 2001, I watched United Airlines flight 175 hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I had not seen American Airlines flight 11 crash into the North Tower almost 20...

May 2, 2021, 2:40 PM

Beware the Incitement of False Humanitarianism

In recent years, we have increasingly seen spectacular failures on the part of the people and institutions we have traditionally relied upon to protect the vulnerable and serve the needs of our society. This failure goes beyond bad policy...

Feb 17, 2021, 7:59 PM

Cuomo’s constitutional violations require removal from office

Governor Cuomo’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis has been rife with constitutional violations and concomitant abuse of power. At a minimum, the NY State Legislature needs to curtail the emergency powers he was granted to deal with the pandemic....

Aug 12, 2020, 11:03 PM

The Swedish Tiger: Gnawing Anti-Semitism!

According to recent news reports, Swedish prosecutors are calling for the destruction of a book about the county’s collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. The chilling effect of government intrusion on free speech is always a grave...

Jul 13, 2020, 7:57 PM

Qatar exploiting the Black Lives Matter movement

Earlier this week, slickly-produced anti-Semitic agitprop made the rounds on social media. It was produced by AJ+, which purports to be Al Jazeera’s Western Millennial-focused lifestyle brand. Like its parent company, AJ+ is nothing more than an appendage of...

Jun 28, 2020, 12:23 AM

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It’s not ‘annexation’ – it’s reunification

A group of soldiers surrounds then-IDF chief rabbi Shlomo Goren as he blows a shofar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on June 7, 1967. (Bamahane Magazine/Defense Ministry's IDF Archive)

Israelis living in Judea and Samaria have spent far too many years living apart from the rest of the Jewish State

About Me

Gerard Filitti is is a New York City-based human rights attorney. He serves as Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project, a Jewish civil rights litigation fund and think tank. He previously worked as a litigator in private practice for over 15 years and has broad experience in commercial and complex litigation across a wide variety of practice areas, in both state and federal courts.