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Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center is an Israeli based civil rights 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...
Stephen Hawking accused of hypocrisy over Israel conference boycott
May 8, 2013: Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli conference in protest at the state's 46-year occupation of Palestine was derided as hypocritical by some, who pointed out that the celebrated scientist and author uses Israeli technology in the computer equipment that allows him to function.Read more...
Shurat HaDin vs. former NBA star Dennis Rodman?
March 7, 2013: Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center on Wednesday hit controversial former NBA star Dennis Rodman with a subpoena to be deposed about his financial dealings with North Korea following a recent trip he made there related to filming a basketball TV series in conjunction with HBO.Read more...
Americans living in Israel sue Clinton, State Dept. over claimed terror group funding
Nov. 27, 2012: The Shurat HaDin—Israel Law Center, representing 24 Americans living in Israel, filed a civil action lawsuit against the State Department on Tuesday claiming that the U.S. government is funding Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza.Read more...
Families Of Slain Students File Suit Against Bank of China
October 23, 2012: The families of eight Israeli high school students killed in a March 2008 shooting in Jerusalem filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Bank of China (3988.HK), alleging it "intentionally and recklessly" provided banking services to terrorist groups through its New York branch.Read more...
Shurat HaDin warns charity over alleged terror ties
Oct. 14, 2012: SYDNEY, Australia – A legal group is threatening to sue an Australian charity unless it stops funding a Palestinian not-for-profit organization alleged to be “an active arm” of a terror group proscribed under Australian law.Read more...
Suicide bombing victim sues hotel to get money from Iranian president
September 14, 2012 -- A U.S. citizen injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem is claiming money from the Warwick New York Hotel, which will host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the upcoming annual U.N. assembly, the man's lawyer says.Read more...
Fighting the terror finance hydra
Aug 7, 2012: With last week’s passage of the Iran Sanctions Bill, Congress took a bold step against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, closing loopholes in existing sanctions law and adding tough new restrictions on transactions benefiting the country’s financial, energy, and shipping industries.Read more...
Inmarsat, Israeli Group Spar over Iranian Oil Tanker Links
PARIS, July 27, 2012: Allegations by an Israeli legal group that mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat is selling prohibited communications to Iranian government-controlled oil tankers and other ships has once again raised the issue of the liability limits of a satellite operator with a global customer base whose identity is often not disclosed.Read more...
Shurat HaDin calls on Corrie Family to sue Palestinian Authority and ISM over daughter's death
Tel Aviv, August 29, 2012: "Rachel Corrie's parents should sue the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) for being responsible for their daughter's death" – this according to Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center.Read more...
Shurat HaDin: fighting terrorism through the courts
June 8, 2012: TEL AVIV – May 30, 2012, marked the 40th anniversary of the Lod Airport Massacre, which killed 26 people, including two Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorists, and wounded 80. Among the victims were American and Puerto Rican Christian pilgrims as well as Canadian citizen Lonna Sabah.Read more...
Israel sees N.K. threat 40 years on
June 3, 2012: North Korea still poses “a constant threat to Israel,” 40 years after a Pyongyang-sponsored terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, the Israeli ambassador has said. And an Israeli lawyers’ organization is continuing to sue terrorists in a bid to prevent such atrocities in future.Read more...
