The radical lawyer defending the Boulder firebomber’s family in a deportation case has a deep history of anti-Israel activism and representing extremists with ties to terrorist groups. Eric Lee, one of four attorneys fighting the Trump administration’s effort to deport Hayam El Gamal and her five children after her husband’s Molotov attack, is no stranger to defending radical ideologues.
Lee has built a career around protecting anti-Israel agitators, including Yale Law scholar Helyeh Doutaghi, who the U.S. sanctioned for working with Samidoun—a front for the terror group PFLP. Samidoun sponsored her appearance in Iran at an event honoring terrorist Georges Abdallah. Lee refused to confirm Doutaghi’s membership, saying, “These are the types of questions that my client isn’t obligated to respond to.”
His client list also includes Rasha Alawieh, a former Brown University professor deported after attending Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral. Lee also represented Prahlad Iyengar, suspended from MIT for promoting terror violence, and Momodou Taal, the Cornell student who praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks and later self-deported.
Lee’s social media presence includes reposting calls for more “Al-AQSA FLOODS”—a reference to Hamas’s brutal terror spree—and defending violent protesters. He even compared Trump’s immigration policies to Nazi tactics, stating, “[W]e need to sober up and realize that the only way to protect immigrants and their families is to mobilize the population.”
As this radical legal crusader turns America’s courtrooms into battlegrounds for pro-terror rhetoric, Lee’s anti-Israel activism continues to raise national concern.
