The people behind
the cases.

Agnese is a Senior Legal Officer at ELSC since 2022, leading the defunding and de-risking team to support individuals and organizations facing financial access challenges with donors and banks. She holds a Law degree from the University of Milan and became a qualified lawyer in 2020. Prior to ELSC, Agnese worked as a trainee lawyer at an international law firm in Italy and as legal counsel for the digital services company Reply, specialising in civil and corporate law. She has also interned at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). In Italy, she was active in movements and organisations supporting marginalised communities and homeless individuals through mutual aid initiatives and participated in projects in the Gaza Strip.

Andrea joined ELSC in 2023 as a Legal Officer, initially part of the Defunding-Derisking team, and has now transitioned to the EU Legal team. She graduated in Law and Sustainable Development with a focus on migration law at the University of Milan. Prior to joining ELSC, she was active in grassroots movements and volunteered at a legal desk for migrants in Milan. She is Italian but based in Amsterdam.

Anna joined ELSC in 2024 as a Senior Legal Officer in the British team. She is a solicitor, qualified in England and Wales, having trained in local government, with a public law and employment law background. She holds an MA in Human Rights Law from SOAS where she studied international law and human rights in the Palestinian context. She has campaigned with local Palestine solidarity groups since 2010 in London, Worcester and Gloucestershire. Before qualifying as a lawyer, she worked for the refugee charity, the Helen Bamber Foundation, supporting survivors of human rights violations, and she continues to campaign and volunteer with migrant rights groups in the UK.

Can joined ELSC in 2026 as a Legal Officer in the DE legal team. Berlin-based lawyer with an interdisciplinary background. He studied at Freie Universität Berlin, completing an M.A. in Philosophy and his First State Examination in Law. During his legal training at the Berlin Court of Appeal (Kammergericht), he gained practical experience at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the Berlin State Office for Equal Treatment and against Discrimination (LADS), and a law firm specialising in migration law. He subsequently worked as a legal adviser at the Anti-Discrimination Network Berlin (ADNB des TBB), with an emphasis on racism. His work centres on fundamental and human rights, anti-discrimination law, and access to justice. With a critical yet constructive perspective on law, shaped in part by his experience of migration, he believes that justice risks becoming an empty theoretical promise if existing forms of injustice remain unchallenged.

Carina is a Junior Legal Officer in the British work team

Carolina joined ELSC in 2025 as a Legal Researcher in the EU legal team. She holds a Master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the University of Lisbon (2024), where she focused on the protection of the right to privacy in the digital age. She is also a lawyer qualified in Brazil, having trained in courts, law firms and human rights organisations. In recent years, she has focused on projects and studies related to digitalisation, regulation of digital services, freedom of expression, and the protection of personal data.

Daan is a Senior Legal Officer managing impact litigation work at ELSC, focusing on strategic litigation and advocacy projects on corporate accountability. He has experience investigating corporate involvement in war crimes and has worked in Palestine with various local NGOs to document and report human rights violations. Daan holds a Bachelor’s degree in International & European Law from the University of Groningen and a Master’s degree in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam.

Danah is a Legal Officer working on strategic litigation cases for ELSC across different jurisdictions. She joined the team in 2022, focusing on Germany. Her education from Maastricht University included Dutch, German, French, UK, and International law within a comparative degree, focused on European law. Previously, she worked with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) on the ICC files investigating the occupation’s crimes in Gaza. She also studied Neurosciences and specialised in Neuro-Law, researching the nexus between criminality and justice practices. She has organised in various political movements and local grassroots collectives. Danah draws inspiration from the Zapatistas’ abolitionist community, Rojava’s struggle against fascism, Kashmir’s resistance against occupation, and the resilience of her people in Gaza.

Giovanni is the co-founder and Executive Director of ELSC, overseeing the legal department with a special focus on strategic litigation cases. Previously, he worked as a trainee lawyer at a Human Rights law firm in Venice, specialising in mass torts litigation, Business & Human Rights, and civil liability before domestic and European courts. Giovanni graduated in International Law from the University of Trento and has been active in the Palestine solidarity movement for the last 15 years.

Hisham is a Junior Legal Officer working with the ELSC’s country team in Germany. He is especially interested in the intersections between migration law and state violence.

Ilora joined ELSC in 2025 as Chief Legal Officer. She has many years of experience in public and private legal practice in the UK and overseas. She qualified in 2005 from Slaughter and May and practised corporate law before working for the Government Legal Service in prison litigation. She has also spent several years working for UNRWA in Palestine, documenting Israel’s crimes against Palestine Refugees in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem). She has also worked as Senior Legal Counsel at a Palestinian human rights organisation in London. Ilora has a first-class degree in Politics from Manchester University and a first-class MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge.

Isabella joined the ELSC in 2023 as an intern, collaborating with the Defunding-Derisking team for 6 months. She rejoined the ESLC in 2025 as a Junior Legal Officer in the EU legal team, after graduating from the University of Milan with a thesis concerning mass surveillance, spywares and data protection.

Kiran is a Senior Legal Officer who joined ELSC in 2023, leading the EU legal team. She graduated in Law from the University of Trento in 2016 and qualified as a lawyer in 2020, focusing on criminal and migration law. Before joining ELSC, she worked for private law firms, the Italian Red Cross during the Mediterranean migration crisis, and at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Kiran is Italian-Indian and has lived in both countries. She is active in the prisoners’ rights movement and has been part of organisations exposing the exploitation of migrant farm workers in the agropontino region.

Nadija is a Senior Legal Officer trained as a criminal defense lawyer, focusing on political criminal proceedings and international criminal law. She studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway. She lectured on criminal law at the Humboldt University and published academic pieces on the German judiciary’s handling of BDS-related cases, Apartheid in Israel, and the Nakba demonstration bans in Berlin. Nadija co-initiated the ad hoc lawyers’ group in Berlin, following the massive repression of pro-Palestine protests in October 2023. She has been involved in the Palestinian community in Berlin and Germany for over 15 years. Her political practice centers on anti-racism, anti-colonialism, criticism of the police and prisons, and the cross-community struggle for liberation.

Sophie is a legal officer in the British work team

Yasmin is a Legal Officer who studied law, political science, and economics in Egypt, where she qualified as a lawyer. She pursued her masters in Information Law, International Global Governance, and International Financial Law at the University of Cambridge. She has experience working in financial institutions and human rights organizations with specific expertise in protecting human rights defenders. Key cases include the Dr. Al-Singace case in Bahrain and accountability reporting in the Derna Storm Daniel Flood in Libya. She worked in financial compliance at a London-based startup and is currently qualifying in England and Wales.

Abir is the Deputy Director of Communications since 2025. She is a journalist and writer based in Berlin. She holds a Master degree in Political Communication from the City University of London. She has worked as a communication officer/ spokesperson for several Palestinian human rights and media organisations in Haifa and Ramallah and has been involved in several grassroot movements and initiatives in Palestine and elsewhere. Her political analysis and reporting appeared in several media outlets including Middle East Eye, TRT, Mondoweiss and The Nation and she has also produced and hosted podcasts.

Bashar is a Digital Communications Officer.

Fidaa joined the ELSC in 2025 as the Director of Advocacy and Communications

Juul is the Advocacy & Communications Officer for the Netherlands since 2024. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in Public Advocacy and Activism from the University of Galway in Ireland. Immersing himself in the Palestine solidarity movement in the Netherlands, Juul co-founded Trade Union Members in Solidarity with Palestine when the Nakba intensified in 2023. In his role in this union members’ collective, he guides working people to organise themselves in the union against their complicit employers. Furthermore, Juul has co-created campaigns for civil society organisations, worked as a freelance journalist, and made short advocacy films.

Karim is a Senior Advocacy & Communications Officer who studied communication sciences, focusing on the German public discourse regarding Palestine. He has been actively involved in the Palestine solidarity movement in Germany for years, participating in several groups and initiatives. Karim has studied and worked in Palestine, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Germany in the fields of political communication, media, and history.

Samar joined the ELSC in 2024 as the Strategic Litigation Advocacy and Communications Officer for the Crimes and Complicity team. Before that, she worked and organised in Gaza against systems of patriarchal and colonial violence exercised over Palestinian women. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Durham University, where she was actively involved in the student movement for Palestine. Her academic research engages with the politics of grief and memory, and the formation of revolutionary subjectivities within anti-colonial struggle.

Tasnima joined ELSC in 2024 as Britain’s Advocacy & Communications Officer. She holds an undergraduate degree in International Politics, a Master’s in Law, and recently completed the Barristers Training Course. Before joining ELSC, she worked as an international labor organiser and campaign lead for grassroots driver unions, including the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and App Drivers Couriers Union. She has been active in the Palestinian liberation struggle since University. Previously, she has campaigned to aid and publicise the plight of the Rohingya community and worked with stateless communities in Assam, India. She is currently involved in organising working-class communities towards a socialist internationalist future.

Amira is the Director of Monitor & Research. She joined ELSC’s Monitor and Research team in January 2025. Amira holds a PhD in International Relations (2022) and a Master’s in Global Political Economy (2016) from the University of Sussex. Before joining ELSC, she lectured in International Relations and Politics. Prior to that, she worked as an international advocacy officer at a local human rights organisation in Cairo, Egypt, where she focused on freedom of expression and association. During her university years, Amira was actively involved in student politics, particularly during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

Evalien is a Monitor Officer who joined ELSC in 2023, monitoring repression of Palestine solidarity in The Netherlands. She is an MA International Relations student with a focus on the MENA region.

Janna is a Junior Monitoring Officer, she monitors and documents the repression of Palestine solidarity in Britain. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Development from the University of Sussex and a master’s in Migration Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Prior to joining ELSC in January 2026, Janna led Data for Housing Justice, a project developing digital tools and training for housing organisers in Britain. She has spent over a decade organising in migrant solidarity work, alongside developing a research practice documenting state violence through border systems, and is part of a research collective documenting the repression of Palestine solidarity in Denmark. Janna is committed to accessible forms of knowledge production, and brings this experience to her work at ELSC.

Layla is a Senior Monitor Officer at ELSC. She joined the team in 2022 and has led the research department across different countries ever since. With her educational background in a multidisciplinary degree at Leiden University, she utilises her knowledge of the politics of law and disinformation to study contemporary mechanisms of repression. For years, Layla has also been an organiser in the Palestinian solidarity movement.

Lennart is a Data Officer at ELSC, monitoring repression of Palestine solidarity in Germany. He holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in Sociology. After his studies he worked in various research projects focusing on quantitative and qualitative social research in work and industrial sociology. Active in the Palestine solidarity movement for several years, he supports and manages data research at ELSC.

Sophia is a Senior Monitor Officer at the ELSC, documenting the repression and erasure of Palestine solidarity in Germany. Prior to joining the ELSC in 2025, Sophia completed a PhD in Social Anthropology, which analysed the racial politics in the sphere of struggle over BDS in Germany. Sophia also holds a BA from SOAS, University of London, and has worked in research, teaching, and the cultural sector. Active in Palestine solidarity initiatives across Germany and Britain, Sophia is particularly interested in activist-archival practices and supports the ELSC with monitoring the shrinking civic space around Palestine in Germany.

Tara is a Senior Monitor Officer who joined ELSC in March 2024, monitoring repression of Palestine solidarity and the shrinking space for defending Palestinian rights in Britain. After graduating in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, she went on to receive her Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law. Previously, she worked with Law Centres across Britain on projects focused on migrant rights and access to justice for people with English as an additional language. She has been active in the Palestine solidarity movement for over 10 years, working predominantly on BDS campaigns in the student movement. Tara also co-founded Collective Action for Iraq (CAFI) in solidarity with grassroots activists of the 2019 popular uprising, and to organise in support of an egalitarian Iraq.

Amr is the Finance Manager at ELSC, a certified CMA financial specialist with extensive experience in Finance, Strategic Decision making, and supply chain management.

Camille is the Director of Development & Operations at ELSC since 2023, leading the Operations and Development Department. She holds a PhD from the University of East London (2012) and a Master’s in Postcolonial Theory from Goldsmiths University (2007). Before joining ELSC, she worked as a trade union organiser, researcher, and feminist organiser. She has been active in the Palestine Solidarity movement for the last twenty years. Before migrating to Britain in 2005, she lived and worked in Australia and was active in labor struggles, the national student movements, and radical social movements that focused on ending the mandatory detention of asylum seekers and campaigns to close refugee camps.

Elisa is a Development Officer who facilitates ELSC’s development and fundraising efforts to ensure the organisation receives the necessary resources to sustain its mission. Elisa has previous experience working in corporate accountability, with a particular focus on Israel’s occupation industry. She organises locally, particularly with youth groups, for the ceasing of Western support to the Israeli occupation and for collective liberation globally. Elisa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Multilingual Communication from the University of Geneva and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Leiden University.

Nathalie a Senior Development Officer joined ELSC in 2024. She is a French and Lebanese activist and young professional with a background in resource mobilisation and project management within non-profit organisations and the academic sector. Over the past 8 years, she has worked across Canada, France, the MENA region, and West Africa, honing her skills in grants management and partnership development, focusing on major institutions, foundations, corporations, and individual donors. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political and Administrative Science from Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and a Master’s degree in International Studies from Université de Montréal.

Noelia joined ELSC in 2024 as Director of People. Her experience spans several HR functions. Her approach to human resources is informed by her studies in social anthropology and humanities, bringing intersectionality, empathy, and solidarity into HR practices. She has extensive experience in full-cycle recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, assessment centers, and KPI implementation. She enjoys developing comprehensive policies, DEI strategies, and driving employee engagement.