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Palestine Legal: Trump's Executive Order Aims to Punish Protests of Israel's Genocide in Gaza, Promotes Anti-Palestinian Discrimination
On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting university students who participate in protests or speech activity critical of Israel's genocide.
The executive order directs government agencies to report on possible civil and criminal actions they can take "to curb or combat antisemitism." It also calls on government agencies to recommend trainings for universities to be able to identify, monitor, and report on non-citizen students and staff based on broadly defined security-related inadmissibility grounds, including any "unlawful activity."
This order will sow a climate of fear and suspicion on campus and chill speech critical of Israel or supportive of Palestinian rights. Alongside ongoing efforts by the government to strong-arm universities into policing and punishing Palestine scholarship and activism, this new Trump directive aims to further co-opt universities as arms of the surveillance state and will disproportionately impact Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and other students of color.
Legal Resources: Protesting the Gaza Genocide
Since October 2023, Palestine Legal has received an unprecedented surge in requests for legal support from from people targeted for Palestine advocacy in all arenas—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity.
While we work to respond to these requests, here are legal resources to prepare for and resist backlash against your activism.
