Palestine 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.
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Palestine Legal received over 2,000 requests for legal support last year, a 55% increase from 2023, and a 600% increase from 2022. Here is a media roundup of the top 4 stories about the landmark settlement from outlets including DC News Now, Fox 5 DC, Truthout, and The New Arab.
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal sent a letter to George Mason University on behalf of their client, Students for Justice in Palestine at George Mason (Mason SJP), warning the university that as a public institution, using the IHRA definition to censor speech in support of Palestinian rights violates the First Amendment and federal civil rights law.
Read MoreAs students return to school this fall, here are the top three ways we are seeing universities intensify their crackdowns on campus activism, and ways they’re being challenged.
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