About Brooke

Brooke Goldstein

Executive director & FOUNDER

Brooke Goldstein is a Miami-based human rights attorney, author, and award-winning filmmaker. She is the Executive Director and Founder of The Lawfare Project, the world’s foremost organization dedicated to enforcing and protecting the civil and human rights of the Jewish people via strategic legal actions. 

The Lawfare Project strives to achieve justice for the Jewish community while punishing and deterring acts of Jew-hatred. Clients include, among others, Jewish students and professors facing antisemitic discrimination and harassment on campus, Jewish professionals experiencing severe and institutionalized antisemitic hostility in the workplace, and companies targeted with commercial discrimination in relation to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

The Lawfare Project has strategically pursued over 150 legal actions in 14 countries. With just four full-time attorneys, it works with and manages an international legal network of over 800 lawyers and dozens of law firms. The network has provided over $13,000,000 worth of pro bono legal services to the Jewish community since 2010. Currently, The Lawfare Project is working on 12 legal actions with five others in the early stages.

Brooke is also the founder of the End Jew-Hatred Movement (EJH), a grassroots civil rights movement working to eliminate Jew-hatred through peaceful direct action and education. 

The movement seeks to empower and liberate Jews from centuries of  persecution and discrimination. The movement demands a world in which Jew-hatred is acknowledged to be detestable and unacceptable, just as hatred or violence against any other group.

Since its inception, the End Jew-Hatred movement has made significant strides in its mission to eradicate Jew-hatred and promote solidarity. With 24 active EJH communities and chapters, and 50 campus fellows across 40 universities, the movement is empowering individuals across the country to take action and educate others. In 2024 alone, 83 protests and actions have been organized, signaling a growing commitment to this cause. Additionally, 61 elected officials in 10 states have officially recognized April 29 as #EndJewHatred Day, while 120 organizational collaborators have joined forces to amplify the message. These efforts are helping to foster a world where Jew-hatred is universally condemned, alongside all forms of hatred and discrimination.

Brooke’s first book, titled Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech: A First Amendment Guide For Reporting in an Age of Islamist Lawfare, gives practical guidance to journalists who wish to speak truthfully about the national security threats faced by liberal democracies.

Brooke’s second book, End Jew Hatred: A Manual for Mobilization, will be released in early 2025, End Jew Hatred shows how the Jewish people can affect real and lasting change by championing the Jewish cause as a minority rights issue, and by harnessing the power of grassroots mobilization, direct action, and legal activism.

Brooke’s award-winning documentary film, The Making of a Martyr, uncovers the illegal, state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of Palestinian children for suicide-homicide attacks. Filming Martyr, Brooke secured firsthand interviews with active and armed members of the Al-Aqsa, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas terrorist groups as well as with families of suicide bombers, children imprisoned for attempting to blow themselves up, teachers at terrorist-run schools, and others involved in the phenomenon of child suicide bombing. Martyr is currently broadcast on television stations throughout the globe and is ranked as IMDb’s seventh most popular title on the West Bank.

Brooke is a regular commentator on FOX News and has been featured in several media, including CNN, The New York Sun, Swindle Magazine, Defense Technology International, and on WABC News Talk Radio, and has been published in a variety of sources, including the New York Daily News, Commentary Magazine, The American Spectator, The Counter Terrorist Magazine, Special Ops Magazine, and others. She also hosts the television series Outspoken on Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) and is a contributor at Newsmax.

Brooke is a seasoned public speaker and has lectured and taught seminars at numerous schools, including the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York University, Berkeley University, Stanford University, and others. Brooke has also been invited to brief government officials at the U.S. State Department, the White House, the Pentagon, the U.K. Parliament, and U.S. Central Command on issues of asymmetric warfare and human rights.

Brooke is the 2007 recipient of the E. Nathaniel Gates Award for Outstanding Public Advocacy and the 2009 Inspire! Award bestowed by the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was listed in 2009 as one of “36 Under 36 Young Innovators” by the Jewish Week, formerly served as an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute, and is currently a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a member of the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East’s (SPME) Council of Scholars, an advisory board member of Belev Echad Charity, and a board member of The Mideast Reporter. She is also a recipient of The Blue Card’s 2016 The Irene Hizme Tikkun Olam Award, the UJA’s 2017 Defender of Israel award, and Belev Echad Charity’s 2015 Pillar of Courage award. In 2019, she was inducted into the Manhattan Jewish Historical Initiative’s (MJHI) Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame. In 2020, she was named among the JNS top 40 global advocates for Israel online. In 2022, Brooke was presented with the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation’s (CAEF) Advocate Award of Excellence in recognition of The Lawfare Project’s work. In 2023, she was honored to receive the WIZO Charlotte and Sami Rohr Defender of Israel Award, established to pay tribute to those who have acted as guardians and protectors of the State of Israel and its people.

From 2007-2009, Brooke served as director of the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum, an organization that arranges financial support for and pro-bono legal representation of persons wrongfully sued for exercising their right to free speech on issues of national security and public concern.

Brooke is also the founder and director of the Children’s Rights Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to track, spotlight, and legally combat violations of children’s basic human rights around the world. CRI has a special focus on the state-sponsored indoctrination and recruitment of children to become suicide-homicide bombers, child soldiers, and human shields.

Additionally, Brooke is the co-founder of A2B Film Productions, Inc., a Canada-based independent documentary film production company focused on creating films that explore issues ignored by the mainstream media.

Canadian born, Brooke earned her B.A. from McGill University and received her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She also attended Columbia University and University of Toronto’s exchange programs. Brooke holds American, Canadian and Israeli citizenship.