Know Your Rights: ELSC Toolkits & Guides
The Defunding of Palestinian Organisations and Their Allies: a Tactic to Suppress Palestinian Voices and Shield Israel from Accountability – FAQ
The ELSC documents and challenges the growing wave of defunding and smear campaigns targeting Palestinian organisations. Learn how these attacks threaten civil society, and how we are working to defend Palestinian advocacy.
Know Your Rights: Toolkit for Protesters in the Netherlands
In response to growing protests for Palestine across the Netherlands, ELSC created a protest rights toolkit in English, Dutch, and Arabic. Learn your rights and stay protected.
Know your Rights Italia: Toolkit per Manifestanti
Find key information on protest rights, police powers, and the use of placards and slogans in Italy. Access the ELSC protest rights toolkit in Italian here.
Reports & Legal Analysis:
Suppressing Palestinian Rights Advocacy through the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
The ELSC’s new report reveals how the IHRA definition of antisemitism is weaponized to silence Palestinian rights advocacy, violating freedom of expression and assembly across the EU and UK. Read the full report here.
The Attempt to Chill Palestinian Rights Advocacy in the Netherlands
The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) has, for the first time, documented attempts to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights in the Netherlands. The report reveals how unfounded allegations of antisemitism and support for terrorism are used to silence human rights…
Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in UK Higher Education: The Adverse Impact of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
A new report reveals that the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism has restricted free speech in UK universities, silencing criticism of Israel and harming academic freedom, student wellbeing, and open discussion about Palestinian rights.
External Resources
Business and Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Guidance for Upholding Human Rights Report by Al-Haq and GLAN
Al-Haq and GLAN’s new report analyses the supply chains and administrative and legal framework for the activities of businesses of the occupying State and of foreign companies in these territories.
The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Report by Palestine Legal
Palestine legal’s Report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States.
What Donors Should Know Following the Dutch Government’s Decision to Cut Funding for UAWC
Palestine legal’s Report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States.