On Friday, April 5, Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) urging an immediate investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill’s systemic pattern of discriminatory treatment against Palestinian students and their allies.
Read MoreGeorge Washington University (GW) is investigating its denial of trauma support services of trauma support services to Palestinian students in the wake of Israel’s bombing campaign last spring, but the university failed to apologize to its Palestinian students. The investigation comes after a public outcry and a civil rights complaint that Palestine Legal initiated this month.
Read MorePalestine Legal and co-counsel Benjamin Douglas initiated a civil rights complaint against George Washington University (GW) challenging GW's selective and discriminatory cancelation of trauma support services for Palestinian students after Israel’s violent repression of Palestinian protests in Jerusalem and another devastating war on Gaza this past spring.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, April 13, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights demanding an immediate investigation into a hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues to fester at FSU.
Read MorePalestine Legal has joined a coalition of interfaith and civil rights groups calling on UCLA to defend the rights of faculty and students in the face of two federal investigations into the university’s response to Palestine advocacy and scholarship.
Read MorePalestine Legal joins the National Lawyers Guild – Chicago, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and the Center for Constitutional Rights in urging the Chicago Bar Association, Catholic Lawyers Guild, and Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois to reconsider the location of a Continuing Legal Education conference in Jerusalem scheduled for the end of March.
Read MoreOn Thursday, the US Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee approved the nomination of Kenneth L. Marcus to head the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education.
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