Legal Action Combatting Hate:


Most Recent

• Spain awards Ariel University €70,000 in discrimination suit, Jerusalem Post, Jan 6, 2015
• Grand jury upgrades charges to hate crime against 25-year-old NY man for brutally attacking Leonard Petlakh during anti-Israel protest, TOI, June 21, 2015

• Israeli Legal Center Threatens Coca-Cola With Lawsuit Over Palestinian CEO’s Support for BDS, Algemeiner, June 15, 2015
• South Carolina becomes first US state to take action against anti-Israel boycotts, Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2015
• Tel Aviv Legal Group Threatens Park Slope Food Co-op With Lawsuit Over BDS Measures, Algemeiner, June 1, 2015 [“Boycotts are not protected speech and they are actionable in [New York] under both criminal and civil law as illegal discrimination”]

• New York may boycott the anti-Israel boycotters, Legal Insurrection, May 21, 2015
• Illinois Passes Anti-BDS Measure, Forward, May 19, 2015
• Lawfare Project Letter Used to Defeat Discriminatory Boycott of Israeli Goods, LawFare Project, May 14, 2015
• Jerusalem Arab Jailed for Online Incitement in Landmark Case, INN, May 12, 2015

Canada: 
Arab group loses latest challenge of funding cut over alleged extremist support, CTV, Aug 17, 2015 (Judgement) 

BDS Focus:
Israel Supreme Court: Boycott/Divest is "Political Terrorism". Publishers can be sued for speech, April 16, 2015

General:

• Al Jazeera America Sued for Bias Against Israel, Arutz7, June 12, 2015
• Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin, to sue PA for terrorism at The Hague, Israel and Stuff, April 14, 2014
• Israeli NGO threatens to sue Facebook for hosting Iranian ministers, Jerusalem Post, Sept 16, 2013
• B.C. woman injured in bombing fights to prevent U.S. terror victims from liquidating Iran’s Canadian assets, National Post, Oct. 9, 2013
• Op-Ed: Let justice run its course in Diab case, Richard Marceau, Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 23, 2013
• A first: Israeli civil rights group suing Australian academic for BDS support, Oct 30, 2013. Also see the letter from Shurat Hadin to the academic
• New center protects Jewish students’ rights, Nov 7, 2013 
• French Court Fines Members of BDS Group Calling for Supermarket Boycott; Called Actions 'Provocation to Discrimination', The Jewish Daily Forward, Nov 29, 2013
• Law Prof Will Challenge Tax Exempt Status if ASA Votes to Boycott Israel, The Jewish Press, Dec 16, 2013
• Precedent: US court orders Iran pay $9M to families of '97 Jerusalem terror attack victims, Jerusalem Post, Dec 4, 2013
• Legal Perspective on ASA Boycott Israel Resolution, Daily News, Dec 25, 2013
• Federal Court upholds government stopping funding to Canadian Arab Federation over concerns it appears to support terrorist organizations, National Post, Jan 7, 2014 (Full Federal Court Decision Text)
• Anti-semitic comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala has his show cancelled in France after Nicolas Anelka's inverted Nazi salute, The Independent, Jan 7, 2014
• "European Heritage Week" banned by Ont HR Comm. (1998); group behind it "promotes racism and homophobia" - See Time Line of article, QMI Agency, Jan 10, 2014
• SodaStream Wins Lawsuit against French Boycott Israel Group, The Jewish Press, Jan 28, 2014 (Read Judgement of this case here).
• Jordanian lawyers suing Google over anti-Islam video, Arabian Business, Feb 3, 2014
• New York Senate bill ends funding to schools linked to Israel boycott group, Jerusalem Post, Jan 29, 2014
• Pro-Palestinian Dutch Group Charged for 'Jews Control Internet' Link, JTA, Feb 10, 2014
• Dieudonne Ordered to Remove Anti-Semitic Content from YouTube, INN, Feb 13, 2014
• Oxfam Threatened With Lawsuit for Providing Aid to Branches of Terror Group, Algemeiner, Feb 19, 2014
• The Woman Who Makes the Jihadis Squirm, The Tower, Feb 2014
• In a First for Spain, a Woman Is Convicted of Inciting Terror Over Twitter, NY Times, Feb 22 2014
• University of Windsor president Alan Wildeman hires Mr. Raj Anand, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP, to conduct an investigation into the recent BDS referendum. Mr. Anand is a recognized expert in the area of human rights law. March 12, 2014
• French Court Punishes Man For Quenelle Salute, Virtual Jerusalem, April 3, 2014
• Palestinians will Face 'Tsunami' of Legal Charges at Hague (Shurat Hadin takes action), INN, April 6, 2014
• Russian lawmakers approve bill making Holocaust denial illegal, Jerusalem Post, April 8, 2014
• Manitoba law student considering human rights complaint against university president, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, April 7, 2014
• Landmark First Conviction Against Nazi Style Salute (France), Breaking Israel News, April 8, 2014
• Noted Human Rights Lawyer: Anti-Israel activities on campus are driving Jewish students away, May 6, 2014
• Court of Arbitration for Sport upholds ban for pro-Nazi chant. May 14, 2014
• Australian Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against BDS Proponent
  http://jpupdates.com/2014/07/17/australian-court-dismisses-lawsuit-bds-proponent/
• Iran to fight Canadian law that allows terror victims to sue for damages
  http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/17/iran-to-fight-canadian-law-that-allows-terror-victims-to-sue-for-damages/
•  Israel Law Center to take Hamas to Hague court for execution of 38 Palestinians. Sept 3, 2014. YnetNews 
• International-law expert, Prof. Eugene Kontorovich on Abbas' threat to go to the ICC against Israel, Sept 3, 2014
• Event at LA Westin hotel restricts participation by Israelis, Eugene Kontorovich, The Washington Post, Oct 17 2014
• PA Will Stand Trial in New York for Terrorism, INN, Nov 20, 2014
• A Palestinian ICC gambit would reach far beyond parties to the conflict, The Washington Post, Nov 24, 2014
• German judge convicts man for shouting ‘Death to Zionists’ at march, JPost, Jan 30, 2015

Cases of Competing Human Rights Claims:

• Human rights complaint filed against cab company over guide dog, The Canadian Press, Nov 30, 2013
• Faith McGregor Sues Omar Mahrouk, Muslim Barber, For Refusing To Cut Her Hair, Huffington Post, Nov 15, 2013, 
• Are Polygamy Bans Unconstitutional?, Huffington Post, Dec 16, 2013
• M&S faces boycott as it lets Muslim staff refuse to sell alcohol or pork, Daily Mail, Dec 21, 2013
• York Uni professor who refused student’s request to be separated from female classmates broke ‘obligation to accommodate’: officials, National Post, Jan 8, 2014
• Teen felt ‘degraded’ after teacher backed aikido student’s request to avoid touching females on religious grounds, National Post, Jan 14, 2014

• University of Victoria anti-abortion group loses court battle, Times Colonist, Jan 15, 2015

Organizations:
Shurat Hadin
The Lawfare Project
Canadians for Israel's Legal Rights (CILR)
HonenuHuman Rights Voices
Human Rights Law CentreThe Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
The Louis D. Brandeis Center
The Legal Forum for Israel
UK Lawyers for Israel
Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI)
Dutch Complaints Bureau for Discrimination on the Internet (MDI)
Legal Grounds
American Trial Attorneys in Defense of Israel 
JNF: Lawyers for Israel Legal Grounds: The Campaign for Promoting Israel’s Rights
Office for Israeli Constitutional Law
Justice for Daniel Wultz

Legal Advocate Leaders 
Professor Anne Bayefsky
Kenneth L. Marcus
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
Brooke Goldstein
David Matas

Lawyers
Lee S. Wolosky (Wultz case, China-Israel). 
David Boies (") 
Robert Tolchin
Kent Yalowitz
Richard Heideman
Baruch C Cohen
Mitchell Goldberg

Researchers
Eltan Arusay
Rachel Ehrenfeld

Politicians 
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Florida)

@ShuratHaDin working on bringing PA and Hamas criminals to the Hague for terrorism and others crimes against humanity

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