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Shurat HaDin Wins Precedent- Setting Ruling in Achille Lauro Terror Case
We continue our fight against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) on behalf of the estates of two JewishAmerican terror victims who were held hostage in the infamous Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking in 1985. […]
Shurat HaDin Sues Airbnb Over Blacklisting of Jewish Properties & Scores Powerful Victory Against BDS
In November 2018, Airbnb caved to pressure from the extremist Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (“BDS”) propaganda movement agreeing to ban Jewish listings from its platform. Shurat HaDin immediately filed a lawsuit on behalf of Israeli and Jewish Ameri can homeowners and renters against Airbnb pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, on the grounds Airbnb’s policy discriminated against them on the basis of their religion and national origin. […]
Setting the Record Straight at UNICEF about Hamas’s Violent Gaza Riots
The international organization UNICEF recently turned its focus on violence inflicted upon Palestinian youth during demonstrations on Gaza’s border with Israel. In response, Shurat HaDin commissioned a thorough and detailed factual report demonstrating numerous categories of human rights abuses inflicted upon Palestinian women and children by Palestinian leaders and terrorist groups during these demonstrations. These included enlisting children as combatants, using women and children as human shields, and intentionally placing civilians in harm’s way, among others. […]
Israeli Court Enters Judgment Against New Zealand BDS Activists for Causing Singer to Cancel Tel Aviv Concert
On October 10, 2018, the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court ordered two anti-Israel activists in New Zealand to pay a total of NIS 45,000 in damages plus nearly NIS 11,000 in attorney’s fees to three Israeli teenagers who claimed injury under an Israeli anti-boycott law when New Zealand singer “Lorde” cancelled an announced Tel Aviv performance in apparent deference to the activists’ call for a cultural boycott of the Jewish State. […]
Shurat HaDin Disrupts Gaza Flotilla and Seizes Boats to Pay Terror Judgments
On September 30, 2018, Shurat HaDin released its exclusive report on the latest anti-Israel flotilla operation that sought to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. In May 2018, a group of anti-Israel NGOs, many with ties to Islamic terrorist groups, organized a so-called “Freedom Flotilla,” hoping to provoke the Israel Defense Forces (“IDF”) and damage the Jewish State’s reputation internationally. The participants left from various cities across Europe and vowed to reach Gaza by July. […]
Shurat HaDin Files Complaint against Hamas in the ICC
In September 2018, Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner traveled to the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) in The Hague with a group of Israeli farmers to submit a complaint on their behalf which was signed by 50,000 supporters seeking an investigation of Hamas for its most recent violations of international law. […]
US Appeals Court Overturns District Court Order that Faulted Terror Victim for Attack
On June 8, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that a district court judge erred in reducing the amount of damages awarded to the family of an American/Israeli teenager kidnapped and murdered by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, based upon the judge’s assertion that the victim and his family assumed the risk of being injured by choosing to reside in the West Bank. The Court of Appeals vacated the district judge’s order, and directed the judge to award a full measure of damages to the family without assigning any blame for the attack on the victim or his family. […]
Interior Minister Orders Human Rights Watch Official/BDS Activist Omar Shakir Deported
On May 9, 2018, Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri issued an order of deportation against Human Rights Watch’s (“HRW”) Israel and Palestine Director and BDS activist Omar Shakir, in accordance with Israel’s anti- boycott law. Under the law, Israel’s Interior Minister is authorized to prohibit entry to Israel of foreign nationals who espouse the boycott of Israel or any part of Israel. […]
Compelled Crowd-Funding Platform to Cancel BDS Campaign for Ties to Terrorists
Shurat HaDin achieved another important legal victory against the BDS movement this year when it managed to shut down a vital crowd-funding channel for the central boycott organization, the BDS National Committee (“BNC”), located in Ramallah. […]
Asserted Lien on Boeing to Seize Iranian Assets
In 2017, Shurat HaDin assisted a group of plaintiffs, who held an unsatisfied terrorism judgment for damages against Iran, file and serve a discovery citation upon aircraft giant Boeing in an attempt to identify Iranian assets that may be used to pay the amounts Iran owes to the plaintiffs under the judgment. The discovery citation was based upon Boeing’s announcement that it had reached a deal to sell billions of dollars in aircraft to Iran as permitted under the Iran Nuclear Deal nego- tiated by the Obama Administration. […]
