An Israeli Adventure of a Lifetime
Bankrupting Terrorism - One Lawsuit at a Time
Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil right organization and world leader in combating the terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them through lawsuits litigated in courtrooms around the world. Fighting for the rights of hundreds of terror victims, Shurat HaDin seeks to bankrupt the terror groups and grind their criminal activities to a halt - one lawsuit at a time. Read more...
Senator demands inquiry into ‘terror’ funding
May 4, 2012: In a letter sent to Foreign Minister Bob Carr, Victorian Liberal Senator Michael Ronaldson cited evidence collected by Israeli civil rights organisation Shurat HaDin, which alleges that the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), based in Gaza, is a subsidiary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).Read more...
US Supreme Court Dismisses Torture Case Against the Palestinian Authority on Technicality
April 19, 2012: Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center has received notice that the US Supreme Court decided to dismiss a lawsuit brought on behalf of the family of a Palestinian-American murdered at the hands of Palestinian intelligence officers in Jericho in 1995. The Court ruled that the Torture Victim Protection Act, as it is currently drafted, did not allow the family to sue the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization.Read more...
Israel Law Center Calls on Attorney General to prosecute 'flytilla' activists
April 12, 2012: A civil rights group called on Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein on Thursday to prosecute pro-Palestinian activists who come to Israel as part of the mass “fly-in” or “flytilla” event scheduled for Sunday. In their letter to Weinstein, the Israel Law Center (Shurat Hadin) said those “flytilla” activists who come to Israel would be acting in violation of Israeli law, including the Penal Code, the Police Ordinance and Emergency Regulations.Read more...
Director of Shurat HaDin Wins Prestigious Prize
April 4, 2012: The director of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, was recently chosen as a winner of this year's prestigious award for Zionism. The annual recognition, "Lion of Zion" Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, seeks to bestow "support for people…acting for the benefit of the common good in order to ensure the strength and resilience of the national Jewish homeland."Read more...
Aussie nonprofit funding PFLP-linked Gazan group
March 20, 2012: Attorneys at the civil rights group the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) announced on Monday that they have "conclusive evidence" to show that a Gaza-based organization supported by two Australian groups is linked to the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).Read more...
Litigating for Israel
February 12, 2012: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an Israeli lawyer with a mission. Established her organization based on the American model of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which had successfully filed legal challenges to thwart the Ku Klux Klan and others it deemed racist. She was determined "to go after terrorists in the same way" in which the Center pursued its foes: through civil litigation. Named Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center has become the bane of anti-Israel groups throughout the world.
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Opinion: Rebels with a cause
February 12, 2012: “Leon Klinghoffer’s blood cries out from the depth of the ocean,” the 23-year-old law student told the Israeli Supreme Court in 1995. “We will not withdraw our complaint.”That student was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, and she had filed a petition on behalf of the victims of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, during which a wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer was tossed overboard.
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Shurat HaDin Warns the PLO's Landlord and Verizon
Januery 24, 2012: Shurat HaDin warned the landlord of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (“PLO”) office in Washington, D.C. and the Verizon telephone company that providing premises, phone lines and other associated services to the PLO is illegal and will expose the landlord and Verizon to both criminal prosecution and civil liability to American citizens and others victimized by PLO-sponsored terrorismRead more...
Twitter lawsuit threatened over alleged Hezbollah aid
December 30, 2011: The director of an Israeli legal outfit says yes, and is threatening to sue the micro-blogging site if it doesn't change its policies.Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to Twitter on Thursday asserting that the company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its popular online network.
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Shurat HaDin Petitions High Court to Delay Second Stage Prisoner Release
December 15, 2011: This morning Shurat HaDin filed a petition to the High Court of Justice asking that the Israeli government be enjoined from proceeding with the release of Arab prisoners pursuant to the second stage of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal.The Shurat HaDin petition alleges that this second planned release is another blatant violation of the Crime Victim's Rights Act ( 2001)
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner named as one of Israel's 50 Most Influential Women
October 2, 2011: Shurat HaDin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has been named by the prestigious Globes business newspaper as one of Israel's 50 Most Influential Women for 2011. It is a great honor and a true recognition of the entire organization's legal efforts against the terror groups and advocacy on behalf of the state of Israel, the IDF and the world Jewish community. As we prepare to celebrate the Rosh HaShana holiday and gear up for another year of challenging work we would like to once again thank you all for your support and encouragement.Read more...
Canceling Columbia's Haman Banquet
september 26, 2011: When we recently learned that the Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was attending the UN's opening activities in New York, had been invited to dinner by a group of Columbia University students we knew we had to act. . We recalled that in 2007, Columbia had also shamefully invited the Iranian leader to speak, providing him with a platform to present his perverted ideas to an international audience while clothed in the vestments of the University's legitimacy. We were determined not to allow it to happen again.Read more...
