New 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 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 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 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 MoreToday, civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a historic $100,000 settlement agreement for their clients, University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD SJP), paid by the University of Maryland.
Read MoreThe action against Addameer is the latest in a long list of politicized attacks by the Trump administration against activists and organizations that work to promote civil and human rights.
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