Testimony
A delegation of first responders who personally handled the bodies of victims, brought to present a searing report to senior UN officials in Geneva.
Global Justice Center · Combating Antisemitism
October 7 happened. Now the world is being told it didn’t.
Atrocity denial is spreading globally on campuses, in newsrooms, inside the United Nations itself. Lies don’t need evidence. The truth does. JIJ builds that evidence: survivor testimony on film, forensic proof on the record, lawyers standing in the rooms where Israel is judged. The fastest way to stop antisemitism is to make the truth impossible to ignore.
Witness
Meet Yuval. Finding her voice after October 7.
Yuval was 23 when she attended the Nova Music Festival, a joyful weekend shattered by rockets and terror. Fleeing the massacre, she and her friends took refuge in a roadside bomb shelter, where terrorists attacked with gunfire and grenades for eight unimaginable hours. Following her father’s phone instructions to play dead, Yuval survived beneath fallen victims. Only 11 of the 39 people in that shelter lived to speak of it.
Four months later, Yuval sat with JIJ’s legal team and finally put her trauma into words. Today she advocates for Israel globally. In 2025 she represented Israel at Eurovision, winning the worldwide popular vote in a contest that draws a billion viewers.
“Speaking out is how I fight back.”
– Yuval Raphael, October 7 survivor
Her testimony became part of the 10-time award winning documentary Saturday October 7, which brings the undeniable stories of 7 survivors of the October 7th massacre to global audiences. Screened on university campuses, at the European Parliament, and now streaming on Amazon and Apple TV, this gripping film tells the story of the darkest day in Israel’s history, one that must never be repeated.
10 AwardsInternational film festivals worldwide
Best Intl DocumentaryNew Jersey Documentary Film Festival
Best Feature, Director, EditingAlpine International Film Festival
Screened atThe European Parliament, university campuses, and the TCL Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
Survivors Seeking Justice
Your donation transforms survivor trauma into durable legal evidence.
Yuval is one of thousands. Since October 7, JIJ’s Survivors Seeking Justice project has gathered sworn testimony from survivors to present as undeniable evidence before the International Criminal Court and UN Human Rights Council. But we cannot secure accountability without you. Your gift:
Gathers sworn survivor testimony.- Advocates before the ICC and United Nations.
- Pursues financial restitution for survivors.
Confront
Propaganda shapes the narrative. We make sure the truth shapes the record.
$100 million of the UN’s budget funds entities and mechanisms that delegitimize Israel, while 80 percent of UN General Assembly resolutions target a single member state: Israel. Even former Secretaries General admit the bias is real.
“Decades of political maneuvering have created a disproportionate number of resolutions, reports and committees against Israel.”
– Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary General
Instead of boycotting a hostile institution, JIJ leverages our UN Special Consultative Status to engage the system strategically. We were the first Israeli organization to bring forensic and eyewitness testimony of the October 7 atrocities to UN Headquarters in Geneva, and those meetings triggered high-level investigations that led the UN to finally recognize Hamas as a perpetrator of mass sexual violence.
Briefings
Diplomats from 40 countries convened to hear survivor testimony and a legal analysis of Hamas’s genocide.
The Hague
Criminal complaints exposing the PA’s torture of its own citizens and Hamas’s use of child soldiers; one of 70 organizations permitted to brief the ICC on the arrest warrant case.
Pressure
34 US Senators rallied to demand the UN designate Hamas a terror organization; 50 organizations led to press the Red Cross to halt its anti-Israel campaign.
Who stands behind it
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice. Facts, law, and testimony. Free of charge.
JIJ is a legal advocacy organization based in Jerusalem, holding Special Consultative Status at the United Nations. Inside Israel, our Justice Clinic provides free legal representation to survivors of terror, wounded soldiers, and victims of trafficking. Internationally, our Global Justice Center confronts efforts to delegitimize Israel, which fuel global antisemitism, through international legal advocacy, research, and public diplomacy.
The two are one fight. The survivor whose case we win in an Israeli court is the same survivor whose testimony we film and carry to Geneva. That is why the same gift funds both.
“With JIJ at the helm, I have hope. Hope that we can finally bring justice to the victims and survivors of the October 7th massacres.”
– Yuval Raphael, October 7 survivor
What your support has already done
Results, not rhetoric.
Figures from JIJ’s legal and advocacy work. Each number is a case, a hearing, or a room where the truth was put on the record.
150,000+
Documentary viewers and screenings
Communities, campuses, and streaming audiences reached by Saturday October 7.
40
Human rights reports delivered to international tribunals
Contributing to binding international precedents at the UN and the ICC.
10
International film festival awards
Including Best International Documentary and Best Feature Documentary.
17
October 7 survivors represented
Free legal representation seeking accountability and restitution.
34
US Senators rallied
A bipartisan demand that the United Nations designate Hamas as a terrorist organization.
462
Young legal scholars trained
Equipped to combat antisemitism in their 21 home countries.
Defend the truth
Your gift fights antisemitism with both truth and action.
Your gift preserves survivor testimony, puts the film in front of people who have never heard it, keeps JIJ’s lawyers in the rooms where Israel is judged, and funds free representation for the survivors at the heart of it all.
- $50 puts the trailer in front of 2,000 people who have not heard a survivor speak.
- Evidence and testimony reach the UN and the ICC through lawyers already in the room.
- 17 survivors keep their free lawyer from first filing to final ruling.
Want to go further? Monthly gifts of $40 or more join the Israel Advocates Forum, with briefings, webinars, and early access to every JIJ campaign. See what members get.
Take it a step further
Join the Israel Advocates Forum. Pursue justice. Stand for truth. Fight the lies.
In a world where lies, propaganda, and misinformation fuel antisemitism, your voice matters more than ever. Members power JIJ’s legal and diplomatic work every month and get the tools to advocate for Israel with confidence.
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