The Lawfare Project is an American non-profit
think tank
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and litigation fund that works to protect the
human and
civil rights
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of Jewish and
pro-Israel
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communities worldwide.
The Project funds legal actions to protect
free speech
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and civil rights by challenging
anti-Semitism
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Ant ...
and discrimination against Jews.
Overview
Human rights attorney Brooke Goldstein founded the Lawfare Project in 2010. The Lawfare Project describes itself as "the world's only international pro-Israel litigation fund" and states that it "has launched more than 70 lawsuits and legal actions in 16 jurisdictions across the globe." The organization states it "maintains an international network of more than 350 attorneys" to support its work.
The Project defines
lawfare
Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter individual's usage of their legal rights.''Unrestricted Warfare''p. 55
The term may refer to the use of legal systems and principles agains ...
as the use of law as a weapon of war, or the wrongful manipulation of
international and
national law to pervert the original intent of the law.
The Project has claimed that the