The European Legal Support Center (ELSC)
defends and empowers Palestine advocates across mainland Europe and Britain through legal means, monitoring, research, and advocacy efforts.
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Exclusive: University of Birmingham Faces Legal Action Over ‘Punitive’ Crackdown on Students Protesting for Palestine
The European Legal Support Centre urges the University of Birmingham to drop disciplinary charges against Mariyah Ali and Antonia Listrat, student leaders targeted for protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Their case highlights a broader UK crackdown on Palestine solidarity, threatening…
Germany to deport four Berlin residents for their Palestine solidarity activism
Germany plans to deport four Palestine solidarity activists in Berlin. The ELSC denounces this as a politically motivated attack on dissent, exposing Germany’s escalating anti-Palestinian repression under Mayor Kai Wegner. Legal action against the order is underway.
Coalition Appeals Dutch Court Ruling for Failure to Uphold Obligations Under International Law
In a single night of attacks last week Tuesday, more than 400 Palestinians were killed as Israeli air raids struck residential areas while people slept, intensifying the systematic destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure and civilian lives.
Our work
DEFEND
We combine defensive strategies and impact litigation with monitoring, training, and advocacy to build collective power, while ensuring that our strategies are informed by the political contexts of the movement in solidarity with Palestine and contribute to movement goals.
Expose
We monitor, document, and analyse repressive measures and practices against Palestine advocates across Europe. Our reports reveal systematic and institutionalised forms of repression, illuminating patterns across sectors and countries to strengthen solidarity.
CHALLENGE
Through legal strategies, litigation, investigative research, and advocacy efforts, we aim to dismantle the structures that protect corporations, financial entities, and political institutions from accountability for their role in enabling ethnic cleansing, settlement expansion, and military aggression in Palestine.
Have you faced or witnessed repression related to solidarity with Palestine?
Palestine advocates face a wide range of repression, including: Censorship and surveillance • Demonstration bans and arrests • Disciplinary actions and workplace suspensions • Financial repercussions and banking restrictions • Repressive legislation like anti-BDS motions falsely labelling solidarity as antisemitic • harassment and intimidation • Threats to citizenship and immigration status