David Yerushalmi

David Yerushalmi (born 1956) is an American lawyer and political activist who is the driving counsel behind the anti-sharia movement in the United States. Along with Robert Muise, he is co-founder and senior counsel of the American Freedom Law Center. He is also general counsel to the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., a national security think tank founded by Frank Gaffney.

An observant Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, Yerushalmi has been highly critical of liberal Jews, "progressive elites", and black people.

David Yerushalmi was a cofounder of CITA (Center for the Investigation & Treatment of Addiction) Americas, a pioneer in rapid heroin detoxification. The company was founded in 1988. CITAS patented the process. Unfortunately, the process was found to be unsafe and the company was disbanded in the early 2000s

In the 1990s, Yerushalmi was of counsel and senior policy research director for the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an Israeli free-market think tank with offices in Jerusalem and Washington, D.C. Yerushalmi published an article on sharia-compliant finance Islamic law as a "Black Box" in the Utah Law Review (2008, Issue 3). Yerushalmi has no formal training in Sharia law.

Yerushalmi is the principal drafter of the American laws for American courts model legislation, which is an effort to prevent courts from taking foreign or international law into account; the legislation is aimed at banning sharia, Muslim religious law. The legislation has been enacted into law in several states including Louisiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

The American Bar Association (ABA) generally opposes such legislation proposed by Yerushalmi because it is "duplicative of safeguards that are already enshrined in federal and state law." Furthermore, the ABA states "Initiatives that target an entire religion or stigmatize an entire religious community, such as those explicitly aimed at 'Sharia law' are inconsistent with some of the core principles and ideals of American jurisprudence."

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