Lawsuit against Staples for discriminating against Black Orthodox Jewish Woman
On April 11, 2025, The Lawfare Project announced it has been retained to represent Elisheva Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish woman who was denied service and subjected to antisemitic harassment at a Staples store in Los Angeles. The incident occurred after Elisheva placed an order for postcards celebrating Jewish identity. Though she was notified the order was ready, a store employee later refused to fulfill it and directed antisemitic and racist comments at her. The store manager failed to intervene and instead sided with the employee.
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Lawsuit to cancel Mayor of Barcelona's anti-Israel boycott
In April 2023, The Lawfare Project, in collaboration with Ignacio Palacios of The Legal Council in Spain, filed a lawsuit against the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, for unlawfully suspending relations with Israel, including a sister-city agreement with Tel Aviv. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Barcelona Institute for Dialogue with Israel, a local charity, argued that Colau had exceeded her authority by infringing on the Spanish government's prerogative to conduct foreign policy and violated established legal procedures.
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Lawsuit exposing antisemitism at the Karolinska, home of the Nobel Prize in medicine
The Lawfare Project, working with local counsel in Stockholm, Sweden, recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Svensson (we are using a pseudonym to protect his identity), a physician who was subjected to antisemitic discrimination and abuse at the Karolinska University Hospital and the Karolinska Institutet (whose Nobel Academy selects Nobel Prize laureates in physiology or medicine) (collectively, the "Karolinska").
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EU government veteran falsely accused of espionage for Israel, fired from diplomatic service
An attorney and longstanding EU official (called “Eva” for her own protection) was targeted by her employer—the European External Action Service (EEAS), the diplomatic service and combined foreign and defense ministry of the European Union—with entirely unsubstantiated rumors that she was engaged in espionage on behalf of the State of Israel. The goal of this campaign was clear: to remove Eva from her role in the Middle East peace process. Allegations that she was leaking confidential information were documented and spread widely despite no evidence to support the claims.
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Anti-Jewish hostility at major Christian hospital system
The Lawfare Project represented a Jewish trauma surgeon at a major hospital with Christian affiliation, who was subjected to an environment of religious hostility following Easter emails containing Biblical verses that for centuries have been used to denigrate Jews and to justify Jew hatred and allegations of deicide.
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Challenging discriminatory product labeling in Canada
Goods produced in all Israeli-controlled territories were unquestionably labeled as "Product of Israel" in Canada until a politically motivated complaint was filed with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The complaint was denied, along with a follow-up appeal, but then Canada's Federal Court ruled that labeling wines from disputed territories as "Product of Israel" was "false, misleading and deceptive."
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Unlawful discrimination by Kuwaiti Airways
Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) unlawfully discriminates against Israeli nationals by refusing to recognize their passports or fly them on any of their flights on routes around the world.
After alerting the U.S. Department of Transportation of KAC’s discriminatory behavior in 2017, The Lawfare Project took steps to force the airline to choose between complying with federal and foreign law or facing the termination of its lease at JFK International Airport. KAC canceled its popular JFK-London route, likely resulting in millions of dollars of pecuniary loss.
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Spanish city council commercial discrimination against Israeli entities
Numerous city councils throughout Spain have adopted discriminatory resolutions and other official policies of refusing to enter into any agreements or contracts (political, commercial, cultural, etc.) with Israeli entities and non-Israeli entities that cooperate or do business with Israeli companies.
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Discriminatory labeling of Israeli products in France
The European Union announced that it would impose discriminatory and illegal labeling requirements on goods imported from “disputed territories” in Israel, and that all its member states would be expected to comply.
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Certification of Israeli products in Europe
The Lawfare Project successfully opposed trade-restrictive measures that would have affected agricultural imports from Israel into the EU.
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National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG), a public interest association of legal professionals, refused to sell advertisement space in its annual gala journal to an Israeli company. According to an email sent by the NLG National Office, the Guild’s refusal was based on an official “resolution barring [NLG] from accepting funds from Israeli organizations.”
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Employment discrimination at CUNY Kingsborough
Senior administrators at CUNY Kingsborough have actively attempted to limit the hiring and obstruct the promotion of Jewish faculty, and created a hostile and intimidating workplace. Along with co-counsel Corey Stark, The Lawfare Project is representing CUNY professor and department chair Jeffrey Lax in an employment discrimination lawsuit against the university.
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