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On April 7, 2025, Bashar Masri ... long-time member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School Dean’s Council, quietly resigned. His departure came just hours after a federal lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C., by nearly 200 American plaintiffs — among them survivors and relatives of those murdered in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. They allege that Masri and his companies played a direct role in enabling the terror group’s tunnel and rocket infrastructure in Gaza. The complaint — detailed and damning — accuses Masri’s firms, PADICO and Massar International, of knowingly facilitating Hamas’s military build-up. According to the suit,...

Lawsuit filed by families of American victims of the October 7 attacks alleges Bashar Masri knowingly worked with Hamas for many years, enabling international and U.S. taxpayer-funded programs to be diverted and exploited to support Hamas’s terror infrastructure. Families of American victims of the Hamas-led October 7th terrorist attacks today (Monday) filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court, accusing Palestinian-American billionaire Bashar Masri of knowingly providing substantial assistance to Hamas’s terror infrastructure in Gaza that carried out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. The lawsuit alleges that Masri, Chairman of the Palestine Development and Investment Company (PADICO) and Massar International,...