{"id":83928,"date":"2026-07-16T04:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/83928\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:49:15","slug":"judge-orders-uk-pro-palestinian-group-to-pay-british-israeli-idf-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/83928\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders UK pro-Palestinian group to pay British-Israeli IDF soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK<\/a> judge orders ICJ Palestine to pay full legal costs of \u00a382,130 to a British-Israeli dual national it tried to prosecute for serving in the IDF.<\/p>\n

The story, as covered by The Jerusalem Post at the end of June<\/a>, is that the ICJP formally applied for a court summons to prosecute Soldier A for allegedly breaching Britain\u2019s Foreign Enlistment Act (FEA) of 1870 by voluntarily serving in the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

The ICJP\u2019s attempt failed dramatically in court, with Senior District Judge Paul Goldspring of Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court unleashing a damning polemic against the ICJP\u2019s legal team. Goldspring called the attempt \u201cegregious\u201d and legally \u201cinadmissible.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also called it \u201cfundamentally misconceived in law,\u201d as the FEA does not apply to dual nationals.
Then, on June 19, Goldspring ruled that the ICJP must pay legal costs to Soldier A, the exact amount of which was just revealed on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the new ruling, Goldspring ruled that, where a private prosecution is commenced on the \u201cbasis of culpable, profound breaches of the fundamental duty of candor, costs should be assessed on an indemnity basis to properly restore the Defendant\u2019s position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In simple terms, the judge found that because the prosecution seriously failed in its duty to be honest and open with the court, it should pay Soldier A\u2019s legal costs on a more generous basis than usual.<\/p>\n

Goldspring ordered the ICJP<\/a> to pay the total sum of \u00a382,130, which he said was \u201centirely reasonable and proportionate given the complexity of the response forced upon Soldier A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Judge demands ICJP apologize for lack of candor<\/p>\n

Goldspring noted that the ICJP did \u201crecognize the systemic failures of candor\u201d following his prior ruling. He also said that the ICJP issued an apology to both the Court and Soldier A for \u201cits failures to comply with its core duties of candor.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICJP, in return, took issue with Goldspring\u2019s demand on April 8 that it be required to attach an unabridged copy of both the Soldier A ruling and the costs ruling, \u201cto any future application it may file in any court in England and Wales as a procedural safeguard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruling ‘really shows that justice can prevail,’ Soldier A says<\/p>\n

Goldspring subsequently concluded that he does lack the power to issue a mandatory, standalone injunction binding future court filings across England and Wales, and therefore reframed this request as an \u201cexplicit expectation rather than a mandatory request.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an incredibly strong win for the cause, both in terms of the actual cost part of it, which is significant, but also on the fact that the judge [expects] all further litigation from the ICJP to have this included, which is a massive win,\u201d Soldier A told the Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really shows that justice can prevail and that this judge saw through the lies and the games, the political meddling that was trying to be done here.\u201d<\/p>\n

He praised Goldspring for doing a \u201cgood, honest job of looking at this case on its merits\u201d and understanding that the case was not about justice but about \u201ctrying to use the courts for lawfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great outcome and a great end to a long and stressful saga,\u201d Soldier<\/a> A concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK judge orders ICJ Palestine to pay full legal costs of \u00a382,130 to a British-Israeli dual national it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,173,6155,36955,5,6],"class_list":["post-83928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-icj","tag-idf-soldiers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116927854212789556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}