CCR to Brooklyn College: Stand for Free Speech Despite Growing Pressures

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould commending her for her principled stand for academic freedom and free speech in the face of nation-wide repression and a local campaign to shut down a student-organized event on BDS. Read the full letter here. CCR and the National Lawyers Guild also issued this statement, read aloud at the press conference organized by Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine on February 5: CCR and NLG Stand With Student Organizers of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Event.