Meera Shah in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Kenneth Marcus

Senior staff attorney Meera Shah was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the impacts of Trump’s antisemitism executive order:

Meera Shah, who represents Palestinian-rights protesters as a senior staff lawyer at the advocacy group Palestine Legal, says the executive order “makes crystal clear that it will be used to justify censorship and attempt to silence advocacy of Palestinian rights in violation of the Constitutional protections guaranteeing free speech.”

The order, Shah stressed, is already having an impact on student activists who now fear speaking out in this climate. Her organization has responded to many incidents of suppression, she said, in which students had to defend themselves in disciplinary proceedings because Israel activists charged them with anti-Semitism for their pro- Palestinian speech.

“Students and faculty activists supporting Palestinian rights don’t just feel that their speech is being chilled. It’s actually happening,” she said.

Read the full article here and view our analysis of the executive order here.