Activities

• Launched in September 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) “focus[es] on research, documentation, and the collection of evidence on war crimes and human rights violations.”
• HRF “actively pursue[s] legal action against those responsible for these atrocities, including perpetrators, accomplices, and inciters of violence against Palestinians. Through offensive litigation, we aim to hold these actors accountable in both international and national courts, challenging the culture of impunity that has allowed such crimes to persist.”
• As of January 6, 2025, HRF had filed complaints against Israeli soldiers in Ecuador, Belgium, UAE, Brazil, Argentina, Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Cyprus, Thailand, and the UK.
• In January 2025, Hind Rajab Foundation claimed that, based on accusations and “evidence” it provided, a Brazilian court took action against an Israeli soldier on vacation in Brazil. According to Hind Rajab Foundation, the court issued “an urgent order for police intervention against the suspect.” Following the Brazilian government opening an investigation, the soldier was forced to flee to Argentina. 
• In December 2024, the HRF  reportedly filed a complaint to the Belgian government against Israel’s incoming military attaché in Brussels, Col. Moshe Tetr. HRF accused him of responsibility  for implementing a policy of starvation in Gaza.
• In October 2024, HRF published a statement “urg[ing] the ICC to swiftly issue warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, holding them accountable for war crimes in Gaza.”
• In October 2024, HRF “officially submitted our ICC complaint along with the evidence, to 8 countries through their embassies in The Hague. We call on these countries to issue Interpol arrest warrants against 1000 Israeli soldiers. Among these countries are Spain, Ireland, and South Africa.”
  • According to the NGO, the complaint includes: “Numerous individuals with dual citizenship, including 12 from France, 12 from the United States, 4 from Canada, 3 from the United Kingdom, and 2 from the Netherlands.”
  • After submitting, Hind Rajab Foundation tweeted, “We are in possession of many more profiles of dual nationals beyond the 1,000 soldiers named in our complaint to the ICC. We will be pursuing legal action against all of them in the national courts of their respective countries. Impunity must end, everywhere.”

Staff

Dyab Abou Jahjah, Hind Rajab Foundation Chair

Terror links and support

• In a 2003 New York Times article, Abou Jahjah claimed he had “joined the Hezbollah resistance against Israel” and “had some military training, I’m still very proud of that.” In a 2024 eulogy for Hassan Nasrallah, Jahjah claimed he met the Hezbollah leader in 2001.
• On September 25, 2024, Jahjah stated that “in 2009, as director of the International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine, I organized visits for Hezbollah’s political leadership to several European countries, including the UK… We met with various prominent figures in the UK, including an important Conservative MP representing Shadow Foreign Secretary at the time, William Hague.”
  • According to its website, the International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine (IUPFP) was “constituted on the margin of the International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Uprising (Intifada), which was held in Tehran between 12-15/5/2001.”
• On October 7, 2023, following the brutal Hamas attack, Jahjah posted: “These Palestinian resistance fighters entering these settlements are all refugees whose parents were ethnically cleansed from these villages in 1948/1967. Anyone neglecting this fact is not seriously engaging in a conversation but is spreading Israeli propaganda, whether willfully or not.”
• In November 2001, Jahjah described the 9/11 attacks as “sweet revenge.”
• In 2005, Jahjah defended former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling for Israel to be wiped off the map, writing that “his position on this matter is the only possible moral one.”
• In 2017, Jahjah who then served as a columnist for Belgian outlet De Standaard, was fired after he praised a terror attack  that killed four Israelis, saying that “liberation of Palestine by any means necessary needs to take place.”

Antisemitism, homophobia, and hate

• Jahjah stated Europe made “the cult of the Holocaust and Jew-worshiping its alternative religion.” He questioned the existence of the Nazi gas chambers and labeled gays “AIDS spreading faggots.” 
• In 2001, Jahjah founded the Arab European League (AEL). AEL was fined for “publishing a Holocaust Denial cartoon on its website in 2006” when Jahjah was the head of the organization. AEL was dissolved in 2007. AEL was “behind multiple riots in the streets of Antwerp at the beginning of the century, including violence against Jews in the city and burning an effigy of an Orthodox Jew.” A November 2022 article published in Le Monde referred to AEL as an “islamic militia.”
• According to multiple media outlets, Jahjah has declared that Jews in Israel have a choice between “the suitcase or the coffin.” 

Karim Hassoun, Hind Rajab Foundation Secretary

• On October 8, 2023, Hassoun posted: “The Palestinians have not ‘invaded’ #Israel… They are simply returning home and reclaiming their properties… A ‘small’ but very important nuance, I would say… #ComingHome #Palestine #Gaza #HolocaustIndustry #CollaborationComplex #Nakba1948 #Resistance.”
• In December 2023, Hassoun posted that he “condemn[s] Hamas … for not having taken 500 or 1000 hostages instead of just 200.” He reportedly claimed that “no evidence of Hamas rape has been provided to date.” 
• In April 2024, Assoun called for the end of Zionism “by any means necessary.” 
• In a 2009  interview, Hassoun declared that “the chance that the AEL [Arab European League] recognizes Israel as a state is as big as the chance that Osama Bin Laden becomes president of the United States. I think that is clear enough. We will never recognize a racist colonial state.”