Dearborn Civil Rights Group Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against U.S. Over Destroyed American Homes in Lebanon
April 23, 2026
From Dearborn to Beirut, the fight for justice is heading to the courts.
The Arab American Civil Rights League (ACRL) has announced a massive class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit targets the Biden-Harris administration for its role in the loss and destruction of American-owned homes and properties across Lebanon amid the ongoing conflict.
ACRL founder Nabih Ayad argues that while the U.S. provides the military hardware used in these strikes, it has failed in its constitutional duty to protect the property and interests of its own citizens abroad. Many Lebanese Americans in Michigan have watched their ancestral and primary homes reduced to rubble, and they are now demanding accountability and compensation for “state-sponsored negligence.”
Can American citizens hold their own government liable for foreign strikes?
We should all support this.
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English Script:
Our team has looked long and hard and we found that it would be one of the first of its kind in the country to bring a class action against the United States government, specifically the Secretary of State Rubio, for allowing this kind of conduct to happen. We have something called the Leahy Act, and the Leahy Act basically says, named after Senator Patrick Leahy. It was passed in 2007 and basically says that the United States cannot support or give aid or military aid of any sort to foreign agencies that are committing gross humanitarian conduct, meaning that they cannot be in violation of human consciences. That is what is going on in South Lebanon. The idea that these individuals can run rampant and blow up people’s homes left and right. And if there’s some case law out there that says that we can go after these manufacturers that they knew that their weapons were going to be used in violation of the Leahy Act, they knew their weapons are going to be used to destroy innocent people’s homes, non-military action.
The war powers resolution that I’m co-leading Congresswoman Ramirez orders the removal of US armed forces participation in unauthorized hostiles in Lebanon, including involvement in targeting assistance, intelligence sharing, which is incredibly important for the Israeli air strikes and ground invasion. The United States right now is assisting in this destruction through the weapon sales, intelligence, logistics they offer as well as diplomatic cover. It covers again the Israeli government and Congress has the power and duty to put an end to this illegal again invasion and what I call an ethnic cleansing campaign. War powers resolution in Congress is privileged and I’ll teach you guys what this means. This means they cannot take it up for a vote. We’re going to force a vote on the war powers resolution to end any US help to, again, continue this unlawful actions by the government of Israel. I want my residents to see this because I know sometimes you think we’re alone. We’re not. This is just half of all of the organizations that are supporting the war powers resolution to end the hostile, again, war to discriminate bombings and ethnic cleansing that we see in Lebanon. We have more support now than ever.
Because what’s happening in South Lebanon is catastrophic. Villages and cities like Bint Jbeil are looking like Hiroshima. And yes, you heard that right.
That means that money pulled from your paychecks, from small businesses, from our children’s futures are buying the very weapons that are destroying Arab American family homes overseas. Not military targets, homes with families inside of them.
