Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights today announced the filing of a “friend of the court” brief in support of the University of Pennsylvania in a lawsuit claiming that Penn violated civil rights laws by not doing enough to stop speech critical of Israel on campus.
Read MoreLast week, Palestine Legal wrote to Ohio State University (OSU) expressing serious concerns about the school's repeated censorship and criminalization of student speech. The legal letter demands that the school end its discriminatory enforcement of vague and overly restrictive policies to conform with the First Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Read MoreAcross the US, professors—like Palestine Legal client Mohja Kahf—are continuing to speak out against Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, in defiance of racist attacks and repression.
Professor Mohja Kahf is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas (UofA), and an award-winning Syrian-Americanpoet.
Since December 2025, Professor Kahf has been subjected to a bogus antisemitism investigation by UofA. The complaint? She has two pro-Palestinian posters on her office door (one of which has been there since 2007).
Read MoreProfessor Sahar Aziz, the first Arab and Muslim American female member of the Westfield Board of Education and Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, is the latest target of baseless accusations attacking her speech in support of Palestinian rights.
Read MoreIn April 2023, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entered into a resolution agreement with the University of Vermont (UVM) over a Title VI complaint brought by two Israel advocacy groups, the Brandeis Center and Jewish on Campus (JOC), on behalf of anonymous Zionist students.
Anti-Palestinian groups are attempting to use this agreement—which does not mention Zionism or the politicized International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism—to chill speech supporting Palestinian rights by claiming OCR has created a new policy incorporating criticism of Israel and anti-Zionism into anti-discrimination laws. This is false.
Read MorePalestine Legal is publishing the following testimony by Rifqa Falaneh, a Palestinian law graduate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, against the dangers of the distorted definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
Read MoreAfter facing public backlash, NYU’s Office of Student Conduct has dropped its false discrimination charge against graduate student worker Naye Idriss, who was accused in November 2022 of antisemitism after she wrote “Fuck” over the word ‘Israel,’ and “Free Palestine” on an Israeli mail bag that had been discarded in the recycling at Bobst Library, where she worked in the mailroom.
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