How a US extradition bid over Hamas allegations put a wealthy activist before a Spanish court

<p>James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, a Cox Enterprises heir, faced a two-hour hearing about alleged support for Hamas</p><p>A two-hour hearing in Spain’s high court Friday on the US extradition request of wealthy leftwing activist and philanthropist James “Fergie” Chambers turned out to be a study in contrasts.</p><p>Chambers’s defense took most of the session to query the US citizen and detail irregularities in the Trump administration’s extradition request – several of which the Guardian has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/07/trump-administration-altered-translation-request-extradite-fergie-chambers">reported on</a> – as well as the figures of Spanish law that would lead the three-judge panel to deny the request; while the prosecutor sped through his case, head down, asking Chambers no questions at all.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/14/activist-extradition-gaza-hamas-spanish-court">Continue reading...</a>