Fun fact: UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) frequently employs pre-litigation correspondence, known as "lawfare", in order to intimidate public institutions, councils, and schools and to pressure them into removing & erasing symbols of Palestinian culture, art, and solidarity. However, UKLFI have not taken out any high-profile cases to a full court trial for these issues, usually relying on their legal and regulatory threats in the pre-litigation correspondence. This has been their pattern of behaviour and activity for decades. For decades they have been targeting local authorities in order to pressure them into not adopting ethical investment policies that would align with BDS principles (thus resulting in a boycott and disinvestment from Israel). These matters have so far NOT been tested in UK courts from the standpoint that UK Lawyers for Israel takes. Their argument is that wearing a keffiyeh constitutes harassment under the Equality Act 2010. They claim that any symbol, artwork, badge, or clothing item that represents Palestine or Palestinians is inherently threatening and causes distress to British Jews and that this creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading or offensive environment related to protected characteristics such as race, religion or belief. It is then argued that anybody who is Jewish, Israeli or Zionist may reasonably feel targeted or marginalised by displays of Palestinian culture and artwork, or any symbols/emblems representing solidarity with Palestinians. But what is missing from all these legal arguments are the questions of whether the same protections under the same legislation that UKLFI is weaponising to attack and erase Palestine & Palestinians from public view, can be applied in order to PROTECT Palestinians. Ultimately, what is needed is for a UK judge to make a ruling that would highlight the way in which UKLFI is weaponising the Equality Act 2010 as a tool to promote anti-Palestinian racism by turning various environments into hostile and degrading places impacting Palestinians. The activities of UKLFI in targeting Palestinians in such a way could then be reasonably declared as amounting to the malicious use of lawfare in order to further unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010. So far no organisation or public body that has been threatened by UKLFI has been willing to call the bluff and allow the matter to progress to court. UKLFI works alongside various Israel advocacy organisations to ramp up the political pressure once they've sent in their pre-litigation correspondence. This is an outrage and more people need to be talking about it.