Top Five Attacks on Activists in New York
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Open Letter to U.N. Secretary-General over Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
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Palestine Legal joins several organizations to call for U.N. Secretary-General Guterres to urge Israel to comply with the U.N. standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners and international law on detention.
Read MoreMedia Spotlight: Lawsuit Against Fordham University
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The lawsuit has national significance, as suppression of campus activism for Palestinian rights is widespread. We collected some highlights of the media coverage.
Read MoreNYPD Ejects Members of NYU SJP from Washington Square Park for Leafleting
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In a stunning violation of First Amendment rights to leaflet in a public space, New York Police Department (NYPD) officers ordered two members of New York University Students for Justice in Palestine (NYU SJP) to leave Washington Square Park on Tuesday because they claimed the leafleting was causing attendees of an Israeli Independence Day “rave” anxiety.
Read MoreCal State Long Beach Ignores Death Threats Against Muslim Students, Condemns BDS
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In an attempt to stop a student divestment initiative, the President of Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) wrote student senators last week blaming the tactic of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) for the rise in white supremacist vandalism. Meanwhile, the administration took no action in response to graffiti threatening to “kill all Muslims on Friday.”
Read MorePalestine Legal and CCR Sue Fordham Over SJP Ban
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April 26, 2017, New York, NY – Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), cooperating counsel Alan Levine, and Palestine Legal, the students argued that the denial is “viewpoint discrimination” in violation of Fordham’s policies regarding free expression.
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