About us

Movement lawyers
for Palestine.

The European Legal Support Center defends and empowers the Palestine solidarity movement across Europe through legal means.

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Our mandate

Free legal help
for the movement.

We give free legal advice and assistance to associations, human rights NGOs, groups and individuals advocating for Palestine in mainland Europe and Britain.

We intervene to end arbitrary restrictions and the criminalisation of advocacy. Our work combines legal support, strategic litigation, investigative research, monitoring and advocacy.

Founded in 2019, ELSC works across Europe, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin and London.

Our approach

Defend. Expose. Challenge.

Defend

Free legal support

Advice and representation for people and organisations targeted for their advocacy for Palestinian rights.

Expose

Documenting repression

Research, monitoring and advocacy that make patterns of repression visible.

Challenge

Challenging complicity

Strategic legal action concerning governments, institutions and corporations.

Our people

One team.
Four departments.

Legal; Advocacy & communications; Monitoring & research; Operations & development.

Meet the lawyers, researchers, advocates and organisers behind our work, and read their biographies.

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Governance

Board and accountability.

ELSC is a registered charity (stichting) in the Netherlands, founded in 2019 by European jurists, the Palestinian NGO network PNGO and The Rights Forum.

Board

  • Diana Buttu
  • Gamal Abouali
  • Mary Nazzal-Batayneh
  • Dr. Mazen Masri

Our Code of Conduct and Complaints Procedure, revised in 2025, is endorsed by all staff.

Code of conduct →Management report 2025–2026 →
Privacy & terms →Organisation details →

Free legal support

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