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Mark Bonnick, Arsenal’s kit man, for 12 years and was self-employed for 10 years prior totalling 22 years of service and lifelong fan, was wrongfully fired for speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. While Arsenal’s billion-dollar industry profits from “unity” slogans, Arsenal silenced Mark, a working-class worker and lifelong supporter for speaking out against a live-streamed genocide.
Landmark legal case seeks to challenge UK government’s use of IHRA definition of antisemitism to suppress Palestine advocacy On 9th July 2026, the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) issued a landmark human rights claim against the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, in the County Court under the Human Rights Act 1998,…
Don’t Let Them Silence the Voices of Palestine – stand against the French government’s attempt to dissolve Urgence Palestine. Over 20 months, repression of the solidarity movement has surged, employing censorship, intimidation, legal measures to criminalise dissent. Support our emergency legal defence fund to protect freedom of expression and assembly.
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 the Middle East – EJJP Germany e. V. (Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost), aim to push back against an escalating effort to intimidate and repress Palestine solidarity by German intelligence services.
This month we share with you updates from our work around Europe. In Brussels, we sent a joint letter to the EU commission challenging the political instrumentalization of the controversial IHRA definition, in the UK we assisted students and academics to challenge repression when they speak up in defence of Palestinian rights and we challenged…
6 August 2026 The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has written to ITV on behalf of broadcaster and presenter Nadia Sawalha, alleging discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 after she was removed from Loose Women following her public support for Palestine and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nadia, who has been one of Loose…
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