Today, Palestine Legal sent a legal letter on behalf of Sociologists for Palestine to urge the American Sociological Association to allow ASA faculty the opportunity to vote on a proposed resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon University's statement is yet another desperate attempt to malign and attack its own students for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights. Palestine Legal, which is representing the student activists, will continue to fiercely defend our client's right to free expression, and we continue to call on CMU to do the right thing and close the investigations against all 10 campus activists.
Read MoreCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) has opened Title VI investigations into 10 activists, barring 8 of them from campus after they painted pro-Palestinian messages on the university's century-old free speech fence. Today, Palestine Legal sent a legal letter to the CMU President's office demanding the university end its discriminatory treatment of advocates for Palestinian freedom, conform with its own speech policies, and comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Read MorePalestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights stand in solidarity with organizations, movements, activists and communities in Florida impacted by two so-called anti-terrorism laws that went into effect on July 1, 2026, which represent a new state-level tool of authoritarian political repression.
Read MoreA federal court has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit by a right-wing Israel lobby organization against the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an anti-Palestinian deal that will infringe on the free speech and academic freedom rights of members of the campus community, blocking efforts by students to have a say in the decision.
Read MoreNew report: Palestine Legal received 300% more legal requests last year than its annual average before 2023, when Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza began.
Read MoreThree Harvard students who engaged in a demonstration in support of Palestinian freedom and climate justice are likely the first to face punishments from a new university disciplinary body that the Trump administration pressured the university to adopt. Students were protesting a campus event promoting climate sustainability that featured the CEO of a major fossil fuel company and board member of notorious weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin, whose weapons are routinely used by the Israeli military to commit war crimes in Gaza and have been used in deadly attacks on residential areas in Iran according to experts.
Read MorePalestine Legal is an independent organization dedicated to defending and advancing the civil rights and liberties
of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
Palestine Legal ©2016
Palestine Legal is fiscally sponsored by Possibility Labs, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your gift may be tax-deductible pursuant to §170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.
