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Justice Beyond Borders: Americans Murdered by Terrorists and the Fight for Accountability

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Zoom Webinar
Format
Virtual

Arnold Roth, Kathleen Luken, Tal Hartuv and attorney Mark Goldfeder joined AIC over Zoom to examine why the killers of American citizens have never been tried in a US courtroom, and what would change that.

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  1. 00:46Welcome from the co-hosts
  2. 02:23Cheryl Dorchinsky introduces the panel
  3. 03:06Kathleen Luken on her twin sister, Kristine
  4. 08:48Tal Hartuv: why justice is an obligation
  5. 15:58Two killers, two factions, and the prisoner payments
  6. 20:52The 2017 affidavit: enough evidence to arrest
  7. 23:36Released in the October 2025 hostage deal
  8. 29:06Arnold Roth on the Sbarro bombing and Malki
  9. 31:00Ahlam Tamimi: the mastermind who became a television host
  10. 35:18Sealed charges, the FBI list, and Jordan's treaty argument
  11. 40:21Expediency over justice
  12. 43:11Mark Goldfeder: the legal tools already exist
  13. 44:12The Safarini precedent
  14. 52:42Four ways to move Washington
  15. 59:26Audience Q&A
  16. 1:11:56The petition, and what it asks for
  17. 1:13:50Closing

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Both families are still fighting. Here is how you can stand with them today.

  • Malki Roth

    Malki Roth was fifteen, an American citizen, when Ahlam Tamimi guided a bomber to the Sbarro pizzeria in August 2001 — a target Tamimi chose because it was full of children. Sixteen people were murdered. She served eight years, walked free in a hostage deal, and has lived openly in Jordan since 2011. She is one of twenty-two people on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list and the only woman among them, with a $5 million reward on her head. Tell the President and Secretary of State to press Jordan to honor its extradition treaty.

    Sign for Malki (opens in a new tab)

  • Kristine Luken

    Kristine Luken was an American Christian, murdered near Beit Shemesh in December 2010. Ayad Fatafta confessed that he killed her because he thought she was Jewish. A 2017 FBI affidavit laid out the evidence for his arrest, and in October 2025 he walked free in the hostage exchange. Kristine's family and Tal learned it from the news, not from anyone official. Demand the United States issue the arrest warrant and pursue his extradition.

    Sign for Kristine (opens in a new tab)

Speakers

  • Arnold Roth

    Father of Malki Roth z"l, murdered in the 2001 Sbarro bombing

    For more than twenty years he has fought to bring his daughter’s killer from Jordan to face American justice.

  • Kathleen Luken

    Sister of Kristine Luken z"l

    Her identical twin, an American citizen, was murdered on a hiking trail near Beit Shemesh in December 2010.

  • Tal Hartuv

    Survivor and advocate

    Stabbed more than a dozen times in the same 2010 attack, she survived and became a leading voice against the payments that reward attackers.

  • Mark Goldfeder

    Constitutional attorney · CEO, National Jewish Advocacy Center

    He takes the financiers and enablers of terror into American courtrooms.

A free virtual panel with the families and survivors who have lived inside the pattern of American victims of terror, and with the attorney working to break it. AIC co-hosted the evening with the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel: Cheryl Dorchinsky introduced and interviewed the four panelists, and RICI opened the program and took audience questions at the close.

Thursday, July 16, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET. The recording runs an hour and a quarter; the chapter list jumps to any speaker.

In partnership with

  • Rhode Island Coalition for Israel
  • Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation
  • End Jew Hatred
  • Massachusetts Antisemitism Synagogue Task Force
  • The Mattathias Project
  • National Jewish Advocacy Center
  • Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center
  • American Jewish Alliance
  • Chicago Jewish Alliance

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