UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has asked the Charity Commission to investigate a top official of Haya Club, a girls only Islamic charity, over her involvement in an organisation accused of spreading conspiracy theories and glorifying violence.

Evidence sent to the Charity Commission links Sara Ibrahim, who is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Haya Club, to Actions With Impact (AWI), which promotes anti-Israel boycotts, organises demonstrations and distributes political leaflets.

UKLFI is particularly concerned about AWI’s Palestine for Kids leaflet, which describes the “Filton 24” as “24 brave people who are in jail for trying to help save children in Palestine”. The Filton 24 faced criminal proceedings arising from a violent raid on an Israeli defence manufacturer’s premises in Bristol in August 2024.

The complaint includes evidence identifying Sara Ibrahim as the organiser of AWI’s fundraising page and author of campaigning leaflets, together with photographs of her demonstrating in favour of the proscribed group Palestine Action.

Footage also shows Ms Ibrahim participating in chants at the Greens’ Conference including: “Resistance is justified when people are occupied. Resistance is glorious. We will be victorious.”   UKLFI is concerned that such language could be interpreted as glorifying political violence.

AWI has also circulated claims that:

• Israeli forces stole the bodies of dead Palestinians from Al-Shifa Hospital to fabricate propaganda about the atrocities committed on 7 October 2023.
• Israel deliberately killed its own citizens during the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October.
• Evidence of sexual violence committed during the attacks was unreliable or fabricated.

• Claims that 479,000 children had been killed in Gaza, including 380,000 under five — figures vastly exceeding the total reported death toll and, in the case of under-fives, exceeding the territory’s pre-war population in that age group.

• Israel is responsible for oppression around the world.

UKLFI argues that the dissemination of such inflammatory allegations, including demonstrably false casualty figures and claims that distort or minimise the atrocities of 7 October, raises serious concerns about the accuracy and nature of AWI’s messaging.

UKLFI has also asked the Charity Commission to establish whether Sara Ibrahim is the same person as Israa Ibrahim, listed as a Haya Club trustee.

A UKLFI spokesperson said:

“Parents entrusting their daughters to a youth charity are entitled to expect proper safeguarding, not exposure to extremist propaganda.

“We are deeply concerned by political material aimed at children which presents people facing serious criminal allegations as heroes, alongside antisemitic conspiracy theories and rhetoric glorifying resistance.

“The Charity Commission must establish whether these activities have any connection with HAYA Club and whether its trustees are meeting their legal responsibilities.”

 UKLFI thanks GnasherJew for its research into Sara Ibrahim.