In 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.

A 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.