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Legal Resources for Palestine Advocates in Europe

The ELSC develops and collects essential resources to help Palestine advocates navigate legal challenges and protect their rights.

Know Your Rights: ELSC Toolkits & Guides

Campaign Guide for an Ethical Procurement Policy

Aimed at activists, grassroots groups, trade unions, human rights organisations, and other civil society actors working to push local and regional authorities to adopt ethical procurement policies and ensure public funds do not support companies complicit in grave violations of international law.

Europe’s Proscription of Palestine Solidarity

This report documents how European governments instrumentalise counterterrorism measures to criminalise Palestine solidarity groups. Drawing on legal frameworks and case studies from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, it exposes a convergent pattern of repression to demobilise opposition to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians. 

Europe’s Proscription of Palestine Solidarity 

This report documents how European governments instrumentalise counterterrorism measures to criminalise Palestine solidarity groups. Drawing on legal frameworks and case studies from the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, it exposes a convergent pattern of repression to demobilise opposition to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians.

New Website With Overview of Ties Between Dutch Universities and Israel 

Access the website here: https://academiccomplicity.nl    DUTCH VERSION BELOW Joint Press Release by European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Stop Arms Trade, Solid Sustainability Research, The Rights Forum – Amsterdam, 7 June 2024 Relations with Israel’s military-industrial complex and Israeli human rights violations underline demands from actions at universities Today, civil society organisations Stop Arms Trade, European…

ELSC Reports & Legal Analysis

The Attempt to Chill Palestinian Rights Advocacy in the Netherlands

The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has, for the first time, documented attempts to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights in the Netherlands. The report reveals how unfounded allegations of antisemitism and support for terrorism are used to silence human rights…

External Resources

REPRESSION OF PALESTINE SOLIDARITY IN GERMANY

The German State is actively enabling and supporting the genocide in Gaza even after the International Court of Justice issued an interim ruling alerting all states to a potential genocide case. Palestinians and the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany are facing an escalating campaign of political repression spanning law enforcement abuses, legal sanctions, and censorship.

Business and Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Guidance for Upholding Human Rights Report by Al-Haq and GLAN

Al-Haq and GLAN’s new report analyses the supply chains and administrative and legal framework for the activities of businesses of the occupying State and of foreign companies in these territories.

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Report by Palestine Legal

Palestine legal’s Report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States.

What Donors Should Know Following the Dutch Government’s Decision to Cut Funding for UAWC

Palestine legal’s Report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States.

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