A group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel activists are attempting to toss a class action lawsuit seeking to make them pay for blockading the main road into Chicago’s primary airport for three hours last spring, allegedly “imprisoning” innocent bystander “hostages” in the resulting traffic snarl and upending countless travel plans and other life and work events in the process, to stage what plaintiffs called an illegal protest in support of a terrorist Islamic regime.
In their filings, the activists say the lawsuit amounts to a frivolous lawsuit attempting to silence their speech and allegedly falsely label them as supporters of terrorism.