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...
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...
Contentions Universities Receive Legal Warning About Anti-Semitism on Campuses
Commentary, September 8, 2011:The pro-Israel legal center Shurat HaDin (which I previously profiled here) is taking a different and much blunter approach. If U.S. public universities don’t deal with anti-Semitism on campus, they’re going to have to deal with it in court:
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Shurat HaDin Warns Government Against Increasing Egyptian Troops in Sinai
September 1, 2011: This week Shurat HaDin has sent a letter to the Israeli Attorney General warning him that neither Defense Minister Ehud Barak nor the Cabinet must not be allowed to unilaterally permit additional Egyptian troops to enter the Sinai and take up positions near the Israeli border.Under the Camp David Accords signed between former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and former President Anwar Sadat, Egypt is only permitted to have limited forces armed with light weapons along with multinational UN observers in the border area. Israel insisted upon this limited number of Egyptian troops in order to prevent another October 1973 style surprise attack
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How Perry Fought the Flotilla
Tablet Magazine, Aug 24, 2011:
Commentary reports that Shurat HaDin—the Israeli legal center whose “pro-Israel lawfare” played an essential role in disabling the ten ships that made up the presumptive flotilla—received Perry’s aid in drawing the U.S. government’s attention to the fact that American citizens aboard the flotilla (like Alice Walker) were potentially planning to violate the Neutrality Act.
As part of their lobbying of Attorney General Eric Holder, at its request Rick Perry sent the nation’s top cop a letter backing the group.
Apparently Perry had met its directors on a trip to Israel. “I love what you do. It’s amazing what you do,” he had told them, one of them said. “If you ever need help combating Israel’s enemies, I’m here to assist.”
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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner's OpEd in the Weekend Jerusalem Post
July 15, 2011, The Jerusalem PostTragically, rather than engaging in authentic efforts to win freedom for an oppressed people, or acting to safeguard the liberties of an endangered minority, these Americans, wittingly or unwittingly, are lending material support and providing resources to Hamas and its goal of eradicating the Jewish state. If imperiling the security of innocent Israelis weren't enough, Hamas’s “useful Americans” are also violating numerous federal laws and recklessly endangering their own lives.
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