UKLFI pushes Israel into Parliament’s Fake News Enquiry
The UK Parliament’s Fake News Enquiry has now published submissions from Honest Reporting and from Professor Richard Landes, after UKLFI’s intervention. Fake news has been recognized as a serious threat to democracies following Russian interference on social media around the world. For the past few months, the UK Parliament has
Banks withdraw services from terror linked NGO
UKLFI has succeeded in preventing Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-P), a terrorist linked NGO, from receiving foreign currency donations by bank transfers from Citibank and Arab Bank PLC. DCI-P, which has close links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror group, can no longer receive
UKLFI Director to debate with Ehud Olmert
Natasha Hausdorff, one of UKLFI’s directors is to argue, alongside Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime minister, for the motion that the world should recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Natasha will be debating on Monday 18 June at an event organised by the prestigious Intelligence Squared organisation, in Westminster. Her opponents will be Jack Straw,
UKLFI files a complaint to the Charity Commission against Medical Aid for Palestinians
UK Lawyers for Israel, together with the Lawfare Project, have filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The complaint highlights how MAP has spread political propaganda, promoted antisemitism, and how it has connections with organisations linked to the Palestinian terrorist organisation, the PFLP. The
Anti-BDS resource launched
UKLFI Charitable Trust has published a new legal resource on anti-BDS legislation in the USA. This lists all the anti-BDS legislation that has so far been passed by 25 States in the USA, and gives a short description of that legislation and links to the laws. The new guide is
The Show goes on at Seret Film Festival
Picturehouse Cinemas has reversed its decision to pull out of four scheduled screenings of films for the Israeli “Seret Film Festival”, following assistance by UK Lawyers for Israel. An Israeli Love Story (Seret International Film Festival) Anti-Israel activists had disrupted a screening at the Komedia cinema in Brighton on 13
PwC’s Audit Whitewash of Terror Linked NGOs
Two NGOs with close links to a terrorist organisation, are audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI-P) and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) have very close links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a proscribed and active terror organisation, whose aim
Helene Pines Richman UKLFI Director elected as Barnet Councillor
Helene Pines Richman one of UKLFI’s Directors and also Chair of UKLFI Charitable Trust, has been elected a one of the three Conservative Councillors for the West Hendon ward in the London Borough of Barnet. Helene is a barrister at 9 Stone Buildings, Linclon’s Inn and specialises in trusts and
More credit card facilities closed down for terrorist linked NGOs
Three more Palestinian NGOs have had their credit card donation facilities withdrawn, following complaints that they were linked to a terrorist organisation and to the Boycott Divestments and Sanctions movement. The NGOs are Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Stop the Wall and Gaza Community Mental Health Programme. These organisations, along
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