On September 28, 2021, the Charity & Security Network published a new report, The Alarming Rise of Lawfare to Suppress Civil Society: The Case of Palestine and Israel. The report details coordinated efforts by politically
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2021 — In response to the Israeli government’s most recent raid on July 29 on the office of a Palestinian civil society organization, the Defense for Children International (DCI) - Palestine,
July 13, 2021 At about 3 a.m. on July 7, 2021 the Israeli army raided the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ (UAWC) Ramallah office, confiscating computers, files and documents, as well as a video recorder.
June 14, 2021 The Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC) has failed in another attempt to win a political motivated False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit against a charity that provides assistance to people in need in Palestine
May 19, 2021 C&SN Director Paul Carroll writes for InkStick on the impact of Israel’s assault on Gaza on civil society programs, and on the ways in which these impacts are, in effect, an extension
April 28, 2021 A new report from the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Target Locked: The Unrelenting Israeli Smear Campaigns to Discredit Human Rights Groups in Israel, Palestine, and the Syrian Golan,
April 2, 2021 The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a suit brought by the Jewish National Fund and 12 individual Americans living in Israel against Just Peace in the Middle East,
March 25, 2021 A False Claims Act suit brought by the Zionist Advocacy Center (TZAC) against the New Israel Fund (NIF) was dismissed on March 11, 2021 as a result of a settlement in which
March 3, 2021 In this in-depth interview, C&SN Director Paul Carroll joins the host of Justice For All Now Hena Zuberi to discuss C&SN's work to protect and promote the ability of nonprofit groups to
On July 24, 2020 Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, introduced the Citizen Participation Act (HR 7771). The bill aims to make it easier to dismiss lawsuits known
