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Trump's Supercharged Attacks on Student Activism for Palestine Follows 50% Increase in Suppression Last Year
Palestine Legal, a legal aid organization supporting the movement for Palestinian freedom in the U.S., received over 2,000 requests for legal support last year, a 55% increase from 2023, and a 600% increase from 2022. About two-thirds of reports of people targeted for their Palestine-related advocacy that Palestine Legal received in 2024 were campus-related, including over 100 reports at K-12 institutions.
The report comes as the Trump administration threatens and implements sweeping actions against Palestine protestors on college campuses, including deportations, federal investigations, and withholding hundreds of millions in funding from universities.
"Trump's extreme and authoritarian tactics, including abducting and deporting international students because of their protected speech and advocacy for Palestinian rights, are a desperate attempt to silence a movement that is successfully shifting public opinion to oppose US support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," said Dima Khalidi, Executive Director of Palestine Legal. "The report underscores how racism against Palestinians was at the core of the widespread crackdown on student activists, and how it paved the path for Trump’s wild overreaches. But it also shows how at every turn, students and other activists have continued to defy the crackdowns to make their voices heard about an urgent moral crisis.”
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.
