The Lawfare Project has been retained to provide legal counsel to over 50 victims of antisemitic attacks that took place after a soccer match in Amsterdam in November 2024. The attacks, fueled by social media incitement in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, targeted Israeli fans and resulted in multiple assaults. The Lawfare Project is collaborating with Amsterdam-based law firm Kötter L'Homme Plasman in this case.
Read MoreThe Lawfare Project is proud to be assisting Tamar Herman, a beloved New Jersey elementary school teacher for over three decades with a stellar record, in a defamation lawsuit predicated on a vicious and antisemitic campaign to falsely depict an innocent, seconds-long classroom interaction as an act of anti-Muslim bias.
Read MoreWhen two Israeli swimmers successfully competed in Spain's Artistic Swimming Qualification Tournament this summer, sports commentator Clara Basiana spewed disparaging comments during a live TV broadcast, calling Israel’s “international presence” a “strategy for whitewash [sic] the genocide and violations of human rights that they’re committing against the Palestinian people." This tendency to blame all Israelis for the actions of the Israeli government is firmly rooted in anti-Semitism.
Read MoreShai DeLuca, a prominent Jewish designer and media personality, was attacked with defamatory accusations, which were posted on the social media platforms of Toronto eatery Foodbenders by its owner, Kimberly Hawkins. Hawkins’s false statements include accusations that Mr. DeLuca is a “terrorist” and that he pointed a rifle at Palestinian children. Hawkins has also targeted the Jewish community at large, even going so far as to post signs outside Foodbenders’s storefront and messages on its social media that “Zionists” are not welcome at the establishment.
Read MoreThe City of Los Angeles has seen blatant anti-Semitism fuel the destruction of countless Jewish properties. Most recently, in May 2020, rioters spray painted a local synagogue with the words "F**k Israel" during a day of rage and aggression.
Read MoreThe Lawfare Project is concerned that, at a time when anti-Semitic hate crimes are skyrocketing in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has added fuel to the fire by singling out the entire Jewish community for the spread of the coronavirus, even threatening its members with arrest.
Read MoreFor nearly two decades, a virulent group of anti-Semitic individuals have been protesting in front of an Ann Arbor, Michigan synagogue every Saturday with signs bearing statements such as: “Jewish Power Corrupts”; “Stop Funding Israel”; “Israel: No Right to Exist”; and “End the Palestinian Holocaust.” The City of Ann Arbor has ignored the synagogue’s repeated pleas for help and has refused to enforce an ordinance that would limit the negative impact the protests have had on the congregants and their children.
Read MoreThe Lawfare Project and Spodek Law Group are representing Lihi Aharon, an Israeli college student who was subjected to a “disturbing,” foul-mouthed anti-Semitic tirade and physically attacked on a New York City subway in December 2019 by a fellow passenger. The suspect was indicted on a hate crime charge.
Read MoreWith support from The Lawfare Project, two Israeli nationals have requested that the international chess governing body—the Fédération lnternationale des Échecs (FIDE)—guarantee non-discrimination after they were prevented from taking part in a chess tournament in Saudi Arabia in 2017 because of their nationality.
Read MoreSeveral Belgian regions have adopted legislation that would make shehita (kosher slaughter) illegal in Belgium. Such a ban would prevent minority faith communities in the country from practicing a central tenet of their religions; create insecurity around the protections afforded to male circumcision practices; and violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Belgian Constitution itself, all of which guarantee freedom of religion.
Read MorePublications containing anti-Semitic content and pro-Nazi propaganda are being disseminated throughout Poland, including being sold in more than 30 different online bookstores, in violation of Polish law.
Read MoreVarious events advocating for commercial discrimination against Israelis have taken place in Italy. The Lawfare Project has worked to shut down a number of anti-Israel and pro-BDS events around the country, including an event at an Italian university that had agreed to host a screening of the propaganda film, Israel: The Cancer.
Read MoreThree charitable organizations in the UK have been identified for misusing their assets and status to disseminate political propaganda denigrating Israel and promoting anti-Semitism.
Read MoreMajor internet content providers in Spain—including Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter—have permitted unlawful expressions of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial to proliferate across their platforms.
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