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British barrister Francis FitzGibbon QC has called the second trial a 'show trial' which relied on 'untested and untestable evidence,' hearsay evidence, prejudicial evidence, and the showing to the jury of additional material which was not part of the evidence at all. These add up to 'patent failings and abuses in the legal process.'<ref name="LRB-2015-01" /> FitzGibbon also doubts the strength of the prosecution's case because, among other reasons, the [[United States Agency for International Development]] funded the same zakat committees named in the indictment of the HLF, and continued to do so for three years after it had shut down the HLF.<ref name="LRB-2015-01" />
In 2018, [[Miko Peled]] published the book ''Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five'', in which he catalogs the trial of the criminalization and dismantling of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, leading to the arrest and jailing of Foundation President Shukri Abu Baker, Chairman [[Ghassan Elashi]], Mohammad el-Mezain, [[Mufid Abdulqader]] and Abdulraham Odeh. According to Peled, "the American justice [...] can convict a hundred innocents for one who is guilty".<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://theintercept.com/2018/08/05/holy-land-foundation-trial-palestine-israel/|title=The Unjust Prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation Five|first=Charles|last=Glass|website=The Intercept|date=5 August 2018}}</ref> Peled also argued that none of the recipients of aid were family members of suicide bombers and questions why
Civil rights attorney Emily Ratner wrote that the use of anonymous and hearsay evidence by the prosecutors was "constitutionally questionable" at best.<ref name="br" /><ref name="er" /> Additionally, much of the evidence used to convict the Holy Land Foundation was "secret evidence" which the defense was unable to read or even know who made it.<ref name="br" /><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/crsj/vol20/iss1/7/|title = The Holy Land Foundation Case: The Collapse of American Justice|journal = Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice|date = September 2013|volume = 20|issue = 1|page = 45|last1 = Nancy|first1 = Hollander}}</ref> According to [[Marjorie Cohn]], professor emerita of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, the trial was a "grave miscarriage of justice" and "capitalized on post-9/11 Islamophobic hysteria" in order to convict the Holy Land Five. [[Pulitzer Prize]] journalist [[Chris Hedges]] describes it as "one of the most egregious cases of injustice committed to date against Muslim leaders in the United States."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://justworldbooks.com/books/injustice/|title = Injustice|publisher = Just World Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bethlehem.edu/2021/11/11/the-struggle-for-a-democratic-state-in-historic-palestine/|title = The Struggle for a Democratic State in Historic Palestine – Bethlehem University| date=11 November 2021 }}</ref>
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