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Antisemite’s 10-Million-Dollar Lawsuit Thrown Out

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At Georgetown University, a member of the staff bullied and harassed a Jewish student. The student reported her. After investigation of the allegations, the university fired the antisemitic offender. The antisemite then sued the student for $10 million. Now the court has thrown out that lawsuit, leaving the plaintiff not only without a job, but also with having to pay her no doubt considerable legal fees. More on this triumph of justice can be found here: “Jewish Georgetown Student Defeats $10 Million Lawsuit Filed by Fired Official Who Promoted Antisemitism,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, April 6, 2026:

A Jewish undergraduate student has defeated a $10 million lawsuit brought by a fired Georgetown University administrator who filed the claim because the student’s efforts to criticize the official’s sharing of antisemitic invective on social media contributed to the termination of their employment.

The student’s victory parries a barrage of accusations which the former administrator, Aneesa Johnson, lobbed at the student, Georgetown, and others. It also vindicates the free speech rights of Jewish students denouncing antisemitism at the highest levels of university governance, according to the student’s legal counsel, provided by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Gibson Dunn.

“This ruling is a victory for every student who has ever feared speaking out against antisemitism on campus,” Brandeis Center chairman Kenneth Marcus said in a statement. “A young woman raised her voice about hateful content posted by a university administrator — and was sued for it. Today, the court made clear that kind of retaliation has no place in our legal system. The Brandeis Center will always stand with those who refuse to stay silent.”

As previously reported by The Algemeiner, Johnson’s appointment to Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) in 2023 drew widespread criticism, as she had a history of writing hateful statements about Jews and Israel.

Georgetown has deep ties to Arab governments, especially Qatar and Saudi Arabia that helped pay for its Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which that tireless apologist for Islam, Professor John Esposito, founded. Qatar continues to provide the Center with millions of dollars annually to financially sustain it. The university itself is a center for anti-Israel indoctrination, including courses on Israel and Palestine, with readings and lectures that could have been produced in Ramallah.

Those statements went back as far as 2015, according to an investigation of her social media activity that was led by Canary Mission. In July of that year, Johnson tweeted: “Ever since going to [Northwestern University] I have a deep seated [sic] hate for Zio [sic] b—ches. They bring out the worst in me.” Johnson also said, “You know why I call them Zio b—ches, because they’re dogs.”

“Zio” is an antisemitic slur brought into prominence by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. While the term, derived from “Zionist,” has generally been deployed by white supremacists and other far-right extremists, it has more recently been used as well by anti-Israel activists on the progressive far left to refer to Jews in a derogatory manner.

A week following the aforementioned posts, Johnson, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), retweeted an unflattering picture of an Orthodox Jew and captioned it, “When the whole world hates you bc you a thief and you grow up looking like shaytan [the devil] #GrowingUpIsraeli.”

Six years later, in 2021, Johnson said on a podcast that US support for Israel is due to the influence of “the really powerful Zionist lobby that advocates for policies, statements, voting patterns that benefit the State of Israel.”

Having been hired to be the “primary point of contact” for master’s students on “everything academic” at the SFS, Jewish advocacy groups protested that any Jewish student should be forced to interact with Johnson. Georgetown University heeded their complaints and ultimately fired Johnson and in doing so set off the events which placed a Jewish undergraduate in the middle of a lawsuit seeking a windfall of damages….

Johnson filed a lawsuit demanding $10 million from the student who had first complained about her to the Georgetown authorities, leading to the loss of her administrative job.

“The college did the right thing here. They brought in an independent investigator. They made clear that this was about discrimination based on Bornstein’s protected identity, that being Jewish — not union advocacy — and that’s important and a necessary distinction that we don’t often see being recognized,” Brandeis Center counsel Deena Margolies told The Algemeiner during an interview. “I’m seeing many more of these disciplinary matters in the employee context, and I notice that what often happens is that when a Jewish professor or staff member is targeted or files a complaint, there is often a cross complaint, a baseless complaint which is retaliatory. And yet, they always end up coming through.”

And as Aneesa Johnson has just discovered to her sorrow, her retaliatory lawsuit without merit was thrown out, leaving her with a huge legal bill. Universities are now doing their own investigations of charges, and denials, of antisemitism, and so far, the antisemites have been losing every case.

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  1. This is the feel-good story of the month. Aneesa Johnson is a relic of black antisemitism existing since the 1960s, developed by black militants who turned on the Jews and has since spread like a virus throughout academia, sports, the media, and in the Congress of the United States.

  2. Depending on how groundless the suit may have been, the plaintiff and lawyer could be sanctioned in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 to pay some or all of the defense expenses and if a Litigation Accountability Act such as adopted by Alabama applies, much more. Filing a groundless lawsuit is not a profitable act.

    • This lawyer agrees.
      I can also imagine that the case got thrown out based on an applicable anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute, which usually carries an attorneys’ fees award for the prevailing defendant.

    • False litigations cost the tax payers and we should be paid back for false claims that result in expensive legal actions.

      • Ther is nothing false about the legal proposition that a conspiracy is an agreement of 2 or more persons (legal or natural/human) to act illegally or to use illegal means for an otherwise legal purposed. ANY overt act by ANY participant makes the case prosecutable. The acts of one are the acts of all, including what some may see as non-participants. That is explained beautifully in the case United States v. Gary Greenough from the Southern District of Alabama in 1985. \

        Howard v. United States makes clear that extortion does not justify joining a conspiracy to commit a crime.

        Having litigated several issues of first impression and won many of them, I think there is good ground to present this case. Please read these cases. Cites can be provided if you cannot find them free online by name.

        • Please accept my apology for MY error in posting this to the wrong thread. This should have been posted toto a blockade story.

    • I was wondering if someone would mention this news. Would like to hear thoughts from people on JW as to where they think Hungary goes from here.

      • Wonder what sort of ideology does Hungary’s new government have? Is it a pro EU one that would seek to obey every diktat of Brussels, or would it be one that’s even more aligned to Turkey than Orban was?

        I’d adapt a wait & watch approach here. About Orban’s defeat itself, I do think that every politician, no matter how good, has a shelf life, and at some point, has to start transitioning to a successor if he doesn’t want his political movement to get rejected at the polls

        • As I posted on another thread….about the man in Australia being prosecuted after becoming a military hero….the new guy was a part of Orban’s party and the report said he is even more in favor of limiting ‘migration’ and protecting the citizens than Orban.

        • I think you are right about a politician’s shelf life. I admire Viktor Orban, a real patriot who tried to protect the Hungarian people from EU treachery and stupidity, but the new leader is not about to allow Muslim ‘migrants’ to enter Hungary. Aligning with the radicalIs lamic lunatic of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, does not excite me, so we will ave to watch.

        • Rob

          I do hope he discontinues Hungary’s policies of aligning w/ Turkey and the Organization of Turkic States

    • Let’s hope the EU doesn’t take Hungary’s new future government into craziness and financial ruin. Hungary was a stabilizing force.

      Will Muslim immigration continue to be resisted?

      • Evidently, even more resistance to the muzzies than has been under Orban.

  6. Why can’t the US government outlaw these “donations” from foreign hostile governments to our universities? We are allowing the next generations to be poisoned against Israel and the US while learning only lies about the “poor victims” of Islam.
    This is treason and insurrection.

  8. “Now the court has thrown out that lawsuit, leaving the plaintiff not only without a job, but also with having to pay her no doubt considerable legal fees.”

    Hopefully, the Judge will also require the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s legal fees as that’s what usually happens when a lawsuit is found to be meritless and is dismissed. And it looks as if it were dismissed with prejudice so it cannot be refiled against her for any reason.

  10. The name and the terrible grammar immediately showed me what color of person we’re talking about here. Very happy to see justice was served.

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