Activities

• ICJP’s stated “principal objective” is to “coordinate and support legal work which supports the rights of Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the wider diaspora.”
• As part of its advocacy efforts, ICJP “Bring[s] violations of international law to the attention of governments and political institutions” and “Assist[s] supporters of Palestinian rights that face attempts to delegitimise them.”

Lawfare

• In April 2025, ICJP, alongside Hind Rajab Foundation and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), “sought the urgent consent of the Attorney General, as required by UK law, to have [Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon] Sa’ar arrested for responsibility for both war crimes and torture in Gaza.”
• In November 2024, ICJP tweeted that it has been “gathering witness evidence of alleged war crimes” and that “this evidence has been used by the @IntlCrimCourt and by South Africa’s legal team at the @CIJ_ICJ.”
• In October 2024, ICJP “threatened legal action” against eight supermarket chains in the UK “if they continue to sell products made in illegal Israeli settlements in their supermarkets.” According to ICJP, “Consumers are voting with their wallet and boycotting Israeli settlement products on an unprecedented scale. It is an insult to supermarkets’ customers if any goods are being mislabelled or repackaged, and they are being tricked into buying illegal settler goods – supermarkets must make it clear that this is not happening.”
• In December 2024, ICJP sent a letter to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) calling for “stronger government policy on ensuring that UK supermarkets don’t sell products from illegal Israeli settlements.”
• In August 2024, ICJP sent a letter to the Attorney General calling on him to “revoke the charity status for the Jewish National Fund (JNF) UK for its role in funding the Israeli military and supporting Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).”
• In August 2024, ICJP submitted an amicus curiae brief to the ICC, claiming that “there are no unsettled jurisdictional obstacles which should prevent the ICC from issuing arrest warrants for which the Prosecutor has applied, including the warrants against Israeli nationals for war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated against Palestinians.”
• In May 2024, ICJP submitted a complaint to Scotland Yard’s War Crimes Team alleging the crimes of “starvation as a weapon of war” and “wilfully causing great suffering to a civilian population.” The document also “named nine British citizens who travelled to Israel to fight in the Israeli military- as well as senior Israeli government officials, such as members of Israel’s war cabinet, and high-ranking military personnel.”
• In March 2024, ICJP supported legal proceedings initiated by Bindmans LLP to restore UK government funding to UNRWA. ICJP provided “evidence and financial backing to the claim.”
• In March 2024, ICJP claimed, “Following a notice served by ICJP-Canada threatening legal action, the Canadian government has vowed to end arms sales to Israel.”
• In January 2024, ICJP filed a criminal complaint with Scotland Yard accusing a number of British government officials of facilitating “alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza under applicable UK legislation.”
• In November 2023, ICJP sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary urging him to “take immediate and concrete steps to prevent British citizens, including dual nationals, from going to fight for the IDF in Israel and/or the OPT…issue warnings that anyone who does so will be investigated and could be prosecuted on their return to the UK.”
  • In December 2023, following the death of a British IDF soldier, ICJP sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary claiming, “It is deeply irresponsible that the Government is continuing to permit British citizens to fight for the IDF in Gaza, with no scrutiny or oversight, in circumstances under which they not only face the risk of becoming complicit in serious international crimes, but also face the risk of serious injury or loss of life.”
• On October 16, 2023, ICJP issued three MPs a “notice of intention to prosecute UK politicians for their role in aiding and abetting Israel’s perpetration of war crimes.” According to the notice, “we put the Labour Party’s Leadership on notice that we intend to bring legal proceedings against politicians in the UK and elsewhere where there is evidence that they have aided, abetted or in any other way supported, encouraged or provided material assistance in the commission of a war crime.”
• On October 14, 2023, ICJP sent a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warning of the NGO’s “intention to prosecute UK government officials for complicity in war crimes in Gaza.” According to the letter, “With knowledge of the crimes already committed in the days since 7 October, the UK Government must understand that this puts it on notice of further international crimes which it can be reasonably assessed will be imminently committed, and support of Israel in these actions would amount to complicity.”
• In February 2024, ICJP took credit for the African Union’s decision to suspend Israel’s observer status.
• In October 2023, ICJP submitted evidence to the UK Parliament on the prospects of a two-state solution. In an addendum following the October 7 Hamas attack, ICJP argued that framing the conflict as between Israel and Hamas is “bereft of the applicable international legal context” and claimed the UK government’s classification “ignores Israel’s legal obligations as an occupying power” while disconnecting the hostilities from “Israel’s brutal 56-year military occupation of the oPt.”

Global 195

• On March 18, 2025, ICJP launched an initiative titled, Global195, a “worldwide legal coalition dedicated to holding accountable Israeli and dual national individuals alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.”
• The coalition will “simultaneously work within multiple jurisdictions to apply for private arrest warrants and initiate legal proceedings against those implicated” (emphasis added).
• Countries participating in the coalition include Malaysia, Turkey, Norway, Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the United Kingdom.
• According to ICJP, “The primary evidence used by the coalition has been gathered over the past eighteen months as part of ICJP’s Justice for Gaza investigation. This evidence, meticulously collected by ICJP’s investigation team, which includes expertise from former Metropolitan Police detectives, meets the evidentiary standards required by UK and international criminal courts and tribunals.”
• In March 2025, as part of the initiative, ICJP filed a criminal complaint in Romania against “an individual suspected to be a member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) currently present in Romania.”

Arms Embargo

• In February 2025, ICJP was a signatory on a letter to the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office “implor[ing] the government to recognise the immorality and illegality of its arms transfers and other military support to Israel, and demand that it ends immediately.”
• In September 2024, following the UK government’s decision to suspend some arms licenses to Israel, ICJP published a statement affirming “It is important that a ban has finally been implemented, but it does not go nearly far enough, and it has come far too long into Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To end British complicity, the UK government must immediately enact a total ban on arms sales.”
• In August 2024, ICJP issued a joint statement urging the newly elected Labour government to “suspend export licenses for arms transfers to Israel.”
• In August 2024, ICJP endorsed a letter to the UK government that claimed, “Any solution to this problem requires the withholding of military, economic, and diplomatic support from Israel, and participating in a full arms embargo of Israel.”
• In June 2024, ICJP sent letters to directors of UK arms companies “warning them they could face criminal liability if they continue selling military equipment to Israel.”
• In May 2024, ICJP “wrote to eighty-two British universities alerting them of the potential risk of criminal liability over any investments held in both arms companies and Israeli settlements.” According to ICJP, “Investment in these companies was already morally bankrupt, but in the current circumstances, it is beyond belief that universities, which are educational institutions, paving the way for future generations of leaders and politicians, would continue to invest in them.”
  • In June 2024, ICJP sent a complaint to the Scottish Charity Regulator “regarding Glasgow University’s investments in arms companies.”
  • In November 2024, ICJP lodged a “formal complaint” with the Charity Commission over “All Souls College, a constituent college of Oxford University, regarding its business interests in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).”
• In April 2024, ICJP wrote to UK Foreign Office and Business and Trade Department to demand an “immediate end to arms exports to Israel in light of Israel’s flagrant violations of international law.”
• On February 28, 2024, ICJP issued a joint statement “criticising the UK government’s refusal to suspend arms exports to Israel.”
• In December 2023, ICJP was a signatory on a statement calling on the “British Government to halt arms transfers to the Government of Israel and the Israeli Defence Forces.”

Political Advocacy

• In March 2025, ICJP issued a statement calling on Western states to take “genuine action to isolate Israel and treat it as the pariah state that it is.” According to the statement, “Israel has massacred hundreds, and starved hundreds of thousands, in order to amend their initial agreement. What else, other than a rogue state headed by warmongers, would subject people to these cruelties. These are not a ‘negotiating tactics’, they are acts of genocide.”
• In January 2025, ICJP published a statement claiming, “Prior to October 7th 2023, Gaza, the world’s largest open air prison, had already been under a seventeen-year long siege, and Palestinians in Gaza were subjugated by Israel’s brutal regime of apartheid, like Palestinians elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Israel, and beyond…For the last 466 days, a genocide of a greater scale than even the Nakba has been carried out against Palestinians in Gaza.”
• On November 12, 2024, ICJP and Amnesty International UK co hosted a panel titled: “Apartheid, Occupation, Genocide – how enforcing International Law can secure justice for Palestinians.”
• In October 2024, on the one year anniversary of the brutal Hamas attack, ICJP published an article titled, “How much longer? One year of Genocide against Palestinians, Israeli impunity, and Western complicity.” According to the article, “For the last year, egregious violations of international law left unchecked by the international community have granted Israel the impunity to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against the Palestinian people…At best, this silence has served as apologism for genocide, reinforcing the sense of impunity upon which Israel’s occupation is based. At worst, the political cover, military intelligence and arms supplied by Western allies of Israel, including the United Kingdom, render them actively complicit in Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”
• In May 2024, following the ICC Prosecutor announcing he wanted to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, ICJP published a statement claiming, “Whilst many doubted the ICC would apply for arrest warrants for Israeli suspected war criminals we did not. Any independent analysis of the evidence will result in an overwhelming appreciation that Israel has engaged in the most serious of war crimes. It was on this analysis that we based our view and trust in the ICC that it would live up to its mandate…We will continue to provide the ICC with credible evidence of war crimes and work with the international community to guard the ICC against unlawful interference with its proceedings” (emphasis added).
  • In November 2024, following the ICC Prosecutor issuing the arrest warrants, ICJP published a statement calling for the “Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) to commence pursuit of warrants for a greater range of charges including against additional perpetrators. This is a crucial step on the road to accountability, but the institutionalisation and extent of Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity demonstrate how responsibility does not neatly fall between two individuals. Moreover, the extent of crimes since the application for arrest warrants also requires further investigation.”
• In February 2024, ICJP published a statement claiming, “This widespread and gendered violence against women and girls  arises within a context of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians…We have seen the UK government and others in the West persevere in their support for Israel’s military actions, when it should instead be focusing on using all legal means available to uphold the rights and dignity of the population at risk of urgent and irreparable prejudice. ICJP calls on the UK government to…suspend arms sales to Israel, and to support…an independent, impartial, prompt, thorough and effective investigation into these credible allegations of Israel’s violations of Palestinian women’s human rights and protections under international humanitarian law.”
• In November 2023, ICJP published a statement claiming, “Today, 75 years on from the Nakba, the Palestinian people continue to face oppression and injustice around the world…The International community has a moral, ethical, and legal duty to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people and hold accountable those complicit in their oppression and murder.”
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas massacre on October 7, ICJP published a statement claiming, “Today’s events have not happened in isolation, but rather are the culmination of nearly a century of Palestinian oppression and dispossession, both individual and collective…Today’s desperate violence is the latest result of the decades long disregard of Palestinian rights and the unexamined impunity given to Israel by global powers asserting her right to defend herself and then not examining the proportionality and legality of those actions. This lack of accountability has been enabled by the international community’s prevailing culture of exceptionalism and impunity.”
• In May 2022, ICJP hosted a conference titled, “Responding to Apartheid in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The UK’s Obligations Under International Law.” The event focused on the UK’s “legal obligations when it comes to occupation, settlements, trade deals, supply of arms, administrative detention, the siege on Gaza and potential corporate and state complicity in war crimes.”

ICJP Canada

• ICJP, along with other NGOs, is a member of the “Coalition for Canadian Accountability in Gaza.”
• In November 2024, the Coalition for Canadian Accountability in Gaza filed a lawsuit against the federal government of Canada. The Coalition accused the government of having “failed in its duty to prevent genocide, including by allowing military exports from Canada to Israel, and by refusing to exercise Canada’s influence over Israel.”
• In November 2023, ICJP’s “Legal Working Group for Canadian Accountability (ICJP LWGCA)” issued a notice to the Government of Canada of its “intention to prosecute Canadian officials for their role in aiding and abetting Israel’s perpetration of war crimes.” ICJP LWGCA called on the “Government of Canada to end its complicity in war crimes by calling for a ceasefire, canceling all arms exports permits to Israel, prosecute those recruiting Canadian volunteers for Israel’s armed forces, and prevent Canadian charities from using donations to benefit Israel’s armed forces.”
  

Staff

Director- Tayab Ali

• Ali also serves as the Head of International Law at Bindmans LLP.
• In March 2025, Ali tweeted, “Israel is systematically annihilating the Palestinian people with brutal impunity. This isn’t war. This isn’t self defence. It’s genocide in plain sight.”
• In March 2025, Tayab Ali tweeted, “Western leaders insist there is no equivalence between Hamas (often used as a stand-in for all Palestinians) and Israel. They’re right. But not in the way they claim. Israel made that clear months ago. There is no equivalence between an occupied, oppressed Palestinian people and a genocidal state hell-bent on erasing them.”
• In May 2024, Ali tweeted, “We will not allow those that supported war crimes in Gaza to rewrite their roles. We started our investigation on 9 October. We collected evidence of those in the UK that were complicit in Israeli suspected war crimes. We will be holding politicians and commentators who are complicit to account. This is not a game where you get to pretend you were not involved in the murder of thousands. Justice is coming for you too.”
• In May 2024, Ali tweeted, “I knew how Israel would behave in escalating its 75 year occupation and subjugation of Palestine by 9th October…Israel is a settler colonial apartheid regime carrying out war crimes that have put it on trial for genocide.“
• In November 2023, Ali tweeted, “Israel is not defending its country. It IS committing war crimes and engaged in collective punishment… Gaza is occupied…Israel is the occupying force… The occupied have the right to resist and repel occupation in international law as they are in a defensive position…Palestinians have the right to self defence – which must comply with international law…”