Palestine Legal recently published a new two-page resource on anti-BDS legislation and the right to boycott. At a time when the right to boycott is under attack from rightwing lawmakers, and the Supreme Court is considering weighing in on the constitutionality of these laws, this new resource aims to provide advocates with information and tools to bolster our rights to protest and dissent.
Read MoreToday’s decision is an attack on our right to dissent from the status quo. In upholding Arkansas’ anti-BDS law, the court refused to confront the reality that these laws are part of an effort to shield Israel from accountability.
Read MoreLast week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Arkansas anti-boycott law violates the First Amendment, reversing the trial court's dismissal of an Arkansas newspaper's challenge to the law. The Arkansas Times was represented by the ACLU in this challenge. The decision is the first time a federal appeals court has decided on the constitutionality of anti-boycott laws.
Read MoreOn Thursday, senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath published an essay in Boston Review on the right to boycott. Her essay touches on the legal battles for and against anti-boycott legislation in more than two dozen states, as well as how these laws have impacted activists and everyday people.
Read MoreThe Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the Law Office of Matthew Strugar filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a lawsuit seeking to strike down an Arkansas law that requires government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel. The lawsuit and the amicus brief in support of it argue that the law violates the First Amendment. The filing situates the Arkansas law as part of a broader effort to suppress speech in support of Palestinian human rights.
Read MoreThree new lawsuits seek to overturn unconstitutional laws
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