A new, moving documentary by Fault Lines on “The Palestine Exception: The crackdown on Palestine advocacy on US campuses” premiered this week on Al Jazeera English featuring Palestine Legal staff and clients.
Read MoreAs the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza has reached unfathomable proportions, so has the war of repression here: since Oct. 7th we’ve received an unprecedented 1300+ reports from people targeted for Palestine advocacy across cities and industries—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity.
Here is a media round-up of 10 key articles written by staff and reporters highlighting the wave of anti-Palestinian repression and the resistance to it in both mainstream and progressive outlets such as: Democracy Now!, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, and others.
Read MoreCommunications Manager Danya Zituni wrote an important op-ed in The Daily Beast on why the machine of anti-Palestinian repression is failing.
Read MoreOn November 16th, the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (UF SJP) filed a lawsuit challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida’s order to state universities to deactivate the student group. The lawsuit aims to protect UF students’ First Amendment right to free speech. UF SJP is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal.
Read MoreSenior staff attorney Radhika Sainath penned an excellent op-ed in the Boston Review on how the climate of censorship, suppression, and intimidation aimed at supporters of Palestinian rights that we are witnessing resembles the aftermath of 9/11.
Read MorePalestine Legal staff attorney Dylan Saba published an important Op-Ed in n+1 on the wave of retaliation and censorship of political expression in solidarity with Palestinians that we’ve witnessed over the past month.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront alongside Ilan Pappe, renowned author and professor of history at Exeter University, about the limits to free speech on the Israel-Gaza war.
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