Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights condemn the addition of Samidoun to its “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” list. This action — a politically-motivated decision to criminalize the organization without due process — is the latest evidence that the US is doing more to try to shut down opposition to a genocide than to stop the genocide itself.

Eight legal and civil rights organizations, including Palestine Legal, have sent a letter to Brown University urging Brown to vote in favor of the Brown Divest proposal, which calls for the university to divest from a list of companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine.