The Lawfare Project and #EndJewHatred movement announce Legal War Room and Solidarity Campaign for Jewish civil rights

"We have a crucial, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to seize the momentum in the fight against antisemitism and unite, as a community, to work collaboratively in the interests of justice and equality."

— Brooke Goldstein, Founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project

The Lawfare Project, the foremost organization focused on upholding the civil rights of the Jewish people through impact litigation, announces the formation of a Legal War Room. This Solidarity Campaign aims to bring unity and organization to the various lawyers, law firms and civic organizations willing to fight for justice for the Jewish people.

Under the guidance of The Lawfare Project’s attorneys, who have long and significant experience in successfully advocating for, and litigating on behalf of the Jewish community world-wide, The Lawfare Project’s Legal War Room facilitates meaningful collaboration among an international network of more than 600 lawyers and dozens of law firms, as well as among numerous campus groups and the many organizations and activists that comprise the grassroots #EndJewHatred civil rights movement.

“We have a crucial, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to seize the momentum in the fight against antisemitism and unite, as a community, to work collaboratively in the interests of justice and equality,” said Brooke Goldstein, Founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project. “We have a clear vision of how to succeed, through strategic legal action that imposes real consequences on Jew-hatred and makes it as unacceptable as every other form of racism and bigotry. Working together, we can end Jew-hatred in our lifetime.”

On October 7, the world changed following the unprecedented terrorist violence by Hamas against Israeli civilians. The widespread and relentless attacks on the global Jewish community that have followed, have been traumatic but have also awakened a new sense of urgency to unify and combat Jew-hatred. Nowhere is this more urgent than on college campuses.

The struggle for justice needs cooperation and meaningful collaboration of the sort that The Lawfare Project has long been engaged in over the thirteen years since its inception. Protecting and upholding the civil rights of the Jewish community has been our moral imperative.

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Lawfare Project attorneys have fielded hundreds of calls and emails from members of the Jewish community, including students and professors at major universities and colleges, who have been targeted with antisemitism, including violent physical attacks. Many of these students and professors have retained The Lawfare Project, which is currently evaluating legal action on their behalf. The Lawfare Project’s Legal War Room is currently focused on multiple colleges across the country, and on implementing systemic change through comprehensive civil rights strategies, including litigation.

The War Room focuses on legal responses to antisemitism wherever it occurs, both on and off campus, and takes on cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, and hate crime attacks, amongst others.

The Lawfare Project has an extensive history of working with small, medium and large law firms around the world to file seminal civil rights cases that have resulted in significant victories and achieved systemic change to denormalize antisemitism. Lawfare Project cases have made a major impact on the civil rights of Jewish students and individuals who have been harmed by antisemitism, and have garnered significant media coverage and public interest. The Lawfare Project has also achieved millions of dollars in settlements for its clients.

Below is a list of selected legal cases and law firms in our network.

The Lawfare Project has put out a successful and urgent call to action to law firms and legal professionals to coordinate their activities and join the Legal War Room and Solidarity Campaign. Furthermore, The Lawfare Project has created a web portal for students and professors, and other members of the Jewish community, to report incidents of antisemitic discrimination and to be rapidly connected with lawyers who will provide pro bono representation.

Relevant Links:

Campus Civil Rights Project; Get Legal Help:

https://www.thelawfareproject.org/campus-civil-rights-project

https://www.thelawfareproject.org/get-legal-help

Join the Legal Network:

https://www.thelawfareproject.org/join-legal-network

Law firms that The Lawfare Project has worked with and/or that are in its legal network include:

  • Greenberg Traurig, LLP

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

  • Mayer Brown LLP

  • Proskauer Rose LLP

  • Winston & Strawn, LLP

  • Arnold & Porter LLP

  • Anderson Kill P.C.

  • Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP

  • The Zweig Law Firm

  • Corey Stark PLLC

  • Matthews Abogado LLP

  • Skoloff & Wolfe P.C.

  • Freeman Law Offices, LLC

  • Lieber Hammer Huber & Paul, P.C.

  • Bochner PLLC

  • PwC Legal

  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Australia)

  • Jewitt McLuckie & Associates LLP (Canada)

  • Alta Law (Belgium)

  • CMS Switzerland

  • FRORIEP Legal SA (Switzerland)

  • Dentons (Poland)

  • Gelbart Legal (Germany)

  • 9 Bedford Row Chambers (UK)

  • Cabinet Briard (France)

  • Cornwalls (Australia)

  • Axelsson & Karlsson (Sweden)

  • RE-LAW LLP (Canada)

  • Busy, Negbi, Aviani, Cohen, Eyal & Co. (Israel)

Select Lawfare Project cases fighting antisemitism:

The Lawfare Project