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Acting upon ICJP complaints, the Charity Commission has taken action following Edgware United Synagogue's hosting of the...
17/08/2026

Acting upon ICJP complaints, the Charity Commission has taken action following Edgware United Synagogue's hosting of the "Great Israeli Real Estate" event - an event which promoted the sale of stolen Palestinian properties in illegal Israeli settlements. In permitting the event to proceed, the trustees failed to give proper consideration to their legal obligations, despite being placed on notice of the risks in advance.

The Charity Commission has confirmed that it formally issued regulatory advice and guidance to the synagogue’s trustees that they are expected to take account of and act upon going forward.

Our complaint raised that fact that the synagogue permitted its charitable premises and resources to be used to promote the sale of properties in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite having received detailed legal warnings before the event took place. The complaint raised serious concerns regarding trustee governance, the discharge of trustees' legal duties, due diligence, the use of charitable assets, reputational risk, and the fundamental obligation of charity trustees to act exclusively in the best interests of their charity while maintaining public trust and confidence.

The Charity Commission's response makes clear that charities cannot ignore credible legal concerns where their premises or resources are used to facilitate activities connected to illegal Israeli settlements.

However, we don't think they went far enough. While the Commission's response sends an important message to the wider charitable sector that trustees are expected to undertake proper legal due diligence, carefully assess reputational and regulatory risks, and ensure that charitable assets are not used in ways that may conflict with their legal duties, the evidence we submitted demonstrated activity that engages serious concerns under both international law and UK charity law.

This should have warranted far more robust regulatory action in order to uphold charity law and protect public trust and confidence in the charitable sector. The Charity Commission must demonstrate that it is prepared to use the full range of its regulatory powers where charities risk facilitating conduct connected to serious breaches of international law.

We welcome this announcement by the Charity Commission 📢💪The Charity Commission has opened a formal inquiry into chariti...
11/08/2026

We welcome this announcement by the Charity Commission 📢💪

The Charity Commission has opened a formal inquiry into charities in England and Wales working in or funding illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, confirming that the inquiry will initially examine eight charities with the scope to widen its investigation as further evidence is assessed. 🔎

it's the most significant regulatory step taken to date in relation to concerns that UK charitable funds have been used to support Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise. 🏴‍☠️

Over the past two years, ICJP has referred seven UK-registered charities to the Charity Commission, involving extensive legal and factual investigations into charitable activities connected with Israeli settlements and other unlawful conduct. This work has included tracing the flow of charitable funds, analysing charity law and trustees’ legal duties, examining financial records and governance arrangements, and submitting detailed evidence to the Charity Commission. ⌨️🕵

The Charity Commission’s investigation follows reporting that revealed two UK charities had transferred approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in the Susya settlement in the occupied West Bank. In June, Labour minister Melanie Ward issued a formal complaint to the regulator identifying 32 charities in England and Wales that had collectively donated at least £28m to organisations operating in or supporting illegal Israeli settlements. 💸🏴‍☠️

ICJP’s own regulatory work identified:
🚩 Evidence that JNF UK has funded projects with direct links to the Israeli military and activities. Fformal complaint submitted March 2025.
🚩 UK Toremet Ltd processed donations for Israeli organisations involved in obstructing humanitarian aid entering Gaza
Beforehand. Complaint submitted May 2024, prompting the Charity Commission to issue UK Toremet with a regulatory ‘action plan’.
🚩 Achisomoch Aid Company may be aiding and abetting international crimes against Palestinians.
🚩 Mizrachi UK engaged in fundraising for the Israeli military and hosted speakers promoting hate speech.
🚩 Edgware United Synagogue went ahead with hosting the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event despite prior legal warnings and evidence that settlement properties were being marketed at the event.

The UK Government has consistently maintained that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are unlawful under international law. That position was reinforced by the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which confirmed that states must not recognise as lawful, or assist in maintaining, Israel’s unlawful presence in the oPt, including Israel’s rapidly expanding illegal settlement enterprise.

Read the full press release ➡️ https://icjpalestine.pulse.ly/ilzfm8w675

A reminder 👆ICJP’s ultimate mission is to protect human rights. And Israel’s perpetration of catastrophic human rights a...
10/08/2026

A reminder 👆

ICJP’s ultimate mission is to protect human rights. And Israel’s perpetration of catastrophic human rights abuse against Palestinians is happening right now, in front of our eyes.

06/08/2026

🇵🇸 Did you see any of these last week?

1. Anadolu Ajansı - Israeli court freezes Ben-Gvir's plan to place crocodiles around prison holding Palestinians
2. BBC News - Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
3. Haaretz.com - Palestinian Technocratic Committee Says It Is Ready to Govern Gaza After UN Approval, IDF Withdrawal
4. Al Jazeera English - Israel’s approval of limited Gaza force a calculated manoeuvre, experts say
5. Novara Media - Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists

‼️ Following Israeli attacks in Gaza that killed at least 19 Palestinians on Sunday, we call on the UK Government to tak...
05/08/2026

‼️ Following Israeli attacks in Gaza that killed at least 19 Palestinians on Sunday, we call on the UK Government to take immediate action to comply with its obligations under international law.

The persistence of Israeli attacks demonstrates that political statements alone are insufficient to protect Palestinian civilians or ensure compliance with international law. The UK Government must move beyond statements of concern and take concrete action to prevent further violations and ensure accountability for perpetrators of war crimes in Gaza.

The latest attacks come just one day after Israeli air strikes killed at least eight Palestinians across multiple locations in Gaza, highlighting the continued bombardment of the besieged enclave despite the so-called ‘ceasefire’. Israel has killed at least 1,222 Palestinians and injured more than 4,000 since the October ‘ceasefire’ agreement last year.

Israel’s unwavering commitment to derailing peace by all necessary means has been emboldened by the silence and complicity of the UK and other Western states who have refused to challenge Israel’s astounding impunity.

If Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, newly appointed to the role in Prime Minister Burnham’s cabinet, maintains any willingness for the UK to comply with international humanitarian law and end its complicity in the Gaza genocide, he will implement a full arms embargo on Israel, including the F-35 carve out, and impose targeted UK sanctions on Israeli government members responsible for such violations, including Prime Minister Netanyahu.

We have written to the new UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting to urge him to do credit to his recent appointment by acti...
31/07/2026

We have written to the new UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting to urge him to do credit to his recent appointment by acting on his previous public statements concerning Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

Before entering government, Wes Streeting said that he believed there were grounds to conclude that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza and that the UK had both a moral and legal responsibility to respond. As Defence Secretary, he is now in a position to act on those convictions. If those statements were sincere, they must now be reflected in government policy.

That means ending all UK arms exports and military cooperation with Israel, including the F-35 carve-out, ensuring the UK’s defence relationships comply with international law, and using his position in Cabinet to press for a response that matches the scale and gravity of the violations that have been documented. The question is no longer what he believes, but what he is prepared to do.

30/07/2026

🇵🇸 Palestine news from last week that got little to no coverage in Western mainstream media outlets.

1. Al Jazeera English - Israel launches clampdown after deadly violence in occupied West Bank
2. RTÉ - Netanyahu orders new West Bank settler outposts
3. RTÉ - €60bn needed after 'biblical' destruction in Gaza - Oxfam
4. Declassified UK - Met Police re-opens war crimes case on Britons fighting for Israel
5. Novara Media - Wes Streeting Took Over £50k From Donors Linked to Palantir and Israeli Weapons

21/07/2026

🏴‍☠️ Israeli settlements are illegal under international law — a fact which is recognised by the UK Government. Which makes the E1 Expansion Plan illegal by its very nature.

Why are we still allowing trade between the UK and entities which are actively working towards the goal of displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people?

It's obscene 🚫
It's illegal 🏴‍☠️..
And we've got a chance to change it ⬇️

We've got a new Foreign Secretary. Write to Ed Miliband telling him:
*I urge you to implement a full ban on any trade between the UK and illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, in line with the UK's obligations under international law as clarified by the ICJ's 2024 Advisory Opinion.*

Do it today, for Palestine. It takes 5 minutes ✍️🇵🇸

🎵 'Origami' by Scott Buckley

🏴‍☠️ Israel’s approval of plans to establish 13 new illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is yet ano...
06/07/2026

🏴‍☠️ Israel’s approval of plans to establish 13 new illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is yet another example of the abhorrent and utter disregard of the international rules-based order by Israel. This forms another troubling development in the rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground in the oPt, which calls for urgent and substantive measures by all states.

Israel’s continued expansion of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory is not an isolated policy decision but part of a long-standing strategy to entrench permanent Israeli control over occupied land, further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory, and prevent any prospects of a viable and contiguous Palestinian state.

These measures are taking place in clear violation of international law, yet the UK Government's stated positions - that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, and that the UK supports a two-state solution - have not been matched by measures capable of preventing the continued expansion of the settlement enterprise. As settlement construction accelerates, the gap between the UK’s legal commitments and its actions continues to widen.

“The UK Government cannot continue to ignore its obligations under international law and contradict its own position. It has been warned repeatedly that failing to take meaningful action would enable Israel to entrench and expand its illegal settlement enterprise. Yet that is exactly what has happened. It is beyond disingenuous for the UK Government to express shock or outrage while continuing to fall short of its legal obligations.”
— Órlaith Roe, ICJP’s Public Affairs and Communications Officer

We irrevocably condemn the killing of Palestinian footballer Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar by Israeli forces, an act that unde...
03/07/2026

We irrevocably condemn the killing of Palestinian footballer Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar by Israeli forces, an act that underscores Israel's targeted and indiscriminate killing of Palestinian sporting figures and civilians.

Confirmed this week by the Palestine Football Association, 32-year-old Al-Ashqar was shot by Israeli forces in the town of al-Qarara outside of Khan Younis in southern Gaza as he searched for cooking gas for his family. He was a goalkeeper for Khadamat Khan Younis and had also played for Gaza’s Al-Aqsa and Al-Musaddar clubs. When he was killed, Al-Ashqar was awaiting the birth of his first child with his wife of five months.

His killing brings the number of Palestinian sports figures killed since the start of the genocide to at least 1,009, including 567 from the football community according to the PFA, which has also filed a complaint with FIFA seeking Israel’s expulsion from the organisation.

With the world’s attention on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, FIFA had a chance to act upon what it calls its commitment 'to protecting and promoting all human rights'. Instead, it remains silent as Palestinian footballers are killed with impunity by Israel.

And FIFA’s continued failure to take action over Israeli football clubs based in illegal settlements is an affront to its own statutes, which clearly outline that FIFA members cannot play games in the territory of another association without permission.

FIFA’s continued inaction is not neutrality. It's a brutal betrayal of its own statutes and the values it claims to uphold.

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