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ELSC is taking legal action against German Domestic Intelligence Services for surveilling Palestine solidarity groups
The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) is representing three Palestine Solidarity groups in Germany taking legal action to challenge the German Domestic Intelligence Service (Verfassungsschutz)’s surveillance.The groups, Thawra Hamburg, BDS Berlin and Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in…
Coalition Challenges Prosecutor’s Prolonged Failure to Act on Booking.com Complaint Before Dutch Court of Appeal
On 9 April 2026, a coalition of Palestinian and Dutch organisations filed a complaint with the Dutch Court of Appeal over the Prosecutor’s prolonged failure to act on a criminal case against Booking.com. The case concerns alleged profits derived from…
Palestinian Symbols Banned at Holocaust Memorial Site Buchenwald, Germany
In a new legal case, the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) is defending an antifascist activist’s right to commemorate at Holocaust memorial site Buchenwald, after she was banned and threatened with a criminal complaint by the memorial’s administration for wearing a Kufiya. This case challenges the criminalisation of Palestinian symbols and the role…
ELSC Submits Objection Against Dutch Government’s Proposal to Ban Face Coverings at Demonstrations
The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has submitted an objection to a bill from the Dutch government that aims to prohibit face coverings at demonstrations. If implemented, the law will endanger protestors mobilising against the Dutch government’s complicity in genocide and settler colonialism in Palestine. The ELSC encourages everyone, both residents and organisations in the Netherlands, to submit objections to this latest attempt to suppress dissent. This can be done via the public consultation…
Employment Tribunal Rules Against Claim of Discrimination against Two Muslim Employees in Lloyds Bank but Reinforces Anti-Zionism as a Protected Belief
While the Tribunal ultimately found in favour of Lloyds Bank on the facts of this case, it delivered a significant and far-reaching clarification of the law by reaffirming that anti-Zionism can constitute a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act…
Da Gaza a Bologna. Il caso di un ricercatore di UniBo nel mirino di soldati ed ex soldati dell’esercito israeliano all’Università di Bologna
All’Università di Bologna, un ricercatore RTT è stato colpito da un procedimento disciplinare – con censura scritta e blocco della carriera – per aver indossato la kufya, partecipato a uno sciopero bianco e denunciato il genocidio in Palestina. A partire…
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نجمع بين الاستراتيجيات الدفاعية والتقاضي الاستراتيجي، إلى جانب الرصد، والتدريب، والمناصرة لبناء قوة جماعية. كما نحرص على أن تكون استراتيجياتنا منسجمة مع السياقات السياسية لحركة التضامن مع فلسطين، وأن تسهم في تحقيق أهدافها.
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نرصد ونوثق ونحلل الإجراءات والممارسات القمعية المعادية لمناصري القضية الفلسطينية في جميع أنحاء أوروبا. تكشف تقاريرنا عن أشكال قمع ممنهجة ومؤسسية، مسلطين الضوء على أنماطها في مختلف القطاعات والدول لتعزيز التضامن.
نواجه
من خلال الاستراتيجيات القانونية، والتقاضي، والبحث الاستقصائي، وجهود المناصرة، نسعى لتفكيك البُنى التي تحمي الشركات والجهات المالية والمؤسسات السياسية من المساءلة عن دورها في تمكين التطهير العرقي، وتوسيع الاستيطان، والعدوان العسكري في فلسطين.
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Oxford Union: Stop the Censorship. Restore susan abulhawa’s Full Speech
In November 2024, Palestinian author susan abulhawa spoke at the Oxford Union about Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Her speech was watched online by over 250,000 people. The Oxford Union later took it down and reuploaded an edited version, cutting nearly two minutes without her…
Where do we find hope? A letter from ELSC’s Executive Director
2025 has been a year of immense challenge and unwavering solidarity.
Amid an unrelenting genocide in Gaza and escalating repression across Europe, our work at the ELSC has grown stronger, more urgent, and more necessary than ever.
From historic mobilisations like the…
We’re taking legal action against the German Government
Under the Justice and Accountability for Palestine Initiative, a coalition of lawyers, including the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), have submitted a 100-page criminal complaint to Germany’s Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe.
It names ten senior officials, from Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Foreign Minister Annalena…