Last week, Palestine Legal wrote to Ohio State University (OSU) expressing serious concerns about the school's repeated censorship and criminalization of student speech. The legal letter demands that the school end its discriminatory enforcement of vague and overly restrictive policies to conform with the First Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Read MoreAcross the US, professors—like Palestine Legal client Mohja Kahf—are continuing to speak out against Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, in defiance of racist attacks and repression.
Professor Mohja Kahf is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas (UofA), and an award-winning Syrian-Americanpoet.
Since December 2025, Professor Kahf has been subjected to a bogus antisemitism investigation by UofA. The complaint? She has two pro-Palestinian posters on her office door (one of which has been there since 2007).
Read MoreA federal judge in Chicago denied U.S. law firm Foley & Lardner’s attempt to evade accountability for rescinding a job offer from Jinan Chehade, an Arab Muslim lawyer, over her support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreIn 2024, after a wave of student actions protesting UCLA’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the UCLA administration charged over 175 pro-Palestinian students with student conduct violations. As recently as November 2025, UC police arrests at a protest triggered yet another group of disciplinary charges.
Some of the students charged in 2024 have not even had a hearing nearly 2 years later — forcing them to put their lives on hold, threatening their ability to afford basic needs, and chilling their First Amendment-protected speech on campus. Almost no students charged with conduct violations in 2025 have had hearings.
Palestine Legal continues to actively work on these discipline cases.
Demand UCLA drop all disciplinary cases against pro-Palestinian students by emailing and calling the administration at bit.ly/UCLAdropcases.
Read MoreToday, during her State of the State address, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a proposal to ban demonstrations within 25 feet of religious institutions. This comes as pro-Israel groups and lawmakers are attempting to shut down protests against the discriminatory and unlawful sale of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, by conducting those sales in houses of worship. Governor Hochul's proposed ban poses a serious threat to New Yorkers' First Amendment rights and sends a dangerous message that silences dissent. Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights have issued this joint statement strongly condemning the proposal.
Read MorePalestine Legal announced the filing of a “friend of the court” brief in support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT Professor Michel DeGraff in an Israel lobby lawsuit claiming that MIT violated civil rights laws by not doing enough to stop speech critical of Israel on campus.
Read MorePreparing for an action on campus? Use this guide to assess your risk and prepare to fight back! Over the past two years, students have organized in unprecedented numbers to stand in solidarity with Palestine. However, instead of listening to students’ demands for institutions to end their complicity in genocide, universities are taking increasingly punitive measures to punish their students for using their voices.
This guide has important resources from Palestine Legal and trusted partners to ensure you can protect yourself and others, and reduce harm from repression.
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