Palestine Legal represented Bard College students Ben and Akiva, who were investigated after they protested a panel featuring a professor with a history of making bigoted remarks against Palestinians. Both students were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Read MoreDespite repeated efforts to exclude Palestinian voices from campus conversations, students at Butler University in Indiana have persevered in asserting their right to organize for Palestine, including a successful campaign in October 2020 against student government resolutions that aimed to silence them and the reinstatement of an April 2021 event with Angela Davis that was canceled following complaints about her support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreCity University of New York School of Law (CUNY Law) student Nerdeen Kiswani is a well-known activist for Palestinian freedom. As a vocal and visibly Muslim advocate for Palestinian liberation, Nerdeen is regularly targeted by Zionist groups who have smear campaigns and false accusations of antisemitism to vilify her. Since Nerdeen started CUNY Law in Fall 2019, anti-Palestinian students and groups, like StopAntisemitism and BDSReport, have targeted Nerdeen, often by using cyberbullying tactics.
Read MoreIn June 2020, Ahmad Daraldik made history as the first Palestinian elected as president of the Florida State University (FSU) student senate. Over the following year, a disturbing environment of anti-Palestinian racism at FSU denied Ahmad equal access to campus life on the basis of his national origin. In April 2021, Ahmad filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that the anti-Palestinian hostile environment at FSU violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read MoreA right-wing lawyer is going to court to force UCLA to turn over a list of activists who presented at the 2018 National Students for Justice in Palestine conference. David Abrams is trying to harass these students and help those who falsely equate opposition to Israeli policies with support for terrorism.
Read MoreStudents Supporting Israel at Columbia University has filed several harassing complaints against professors and students for speech critical of Israeli policies. All complaints have been dismissed.
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