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Institutionalisation from below: A testimony from Exposing Zalando
By ExposingZalando (Guest Contribution). The Europe-wide online retailer Zalando is among Berlin’s largest employers. In recent years, the company’s anti-Palestinian repression and censorship campaign has earned it a reputation as…
Block the boat: ELSC’s role in disrupting arms deliveries to Israel
By ELSC Crimes & Complicity Team. Despite statements by European Officials to the contrary – weapons deliveries from and through European states have not stopped after the International Court of…
“Hostile” Symbols & Slogans: The Attack on Palestinian Presence in Europe
By ELSC Research & Monitoring Department. Attempts to erase Palestinian symbols and slogans from public spaces are part of a longer history of Zionist genocidal efforts not only to criminalise but to…
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ELSC & PILC File Legal Complaint Against UK Lawyers For Israel Patrons
Senior barristers Lord David Pannick KC, Lord Anthony Grabiner KC, and Stephen Hockman KC named in BSB complaint over alleged misuse of professional status in UKLFI campaign targeting Palestine solidarity…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…