In an exclusive interview with CBS News, Palestine Legal client Aasiyah Wasif and our Michael Ratner Fellow Rifqa Falaneh spoke about the months-long, hostile anti-Palestinian environment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Read MoreOn April 16th, 2024, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has opened a formal investigation into Palestine Legal’s complaint against the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst alleging a hostile anti-Palestinian environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read MoreOn 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 MoreOn January 16, Palestine Legal, along with 13 other civil rights and legal advocacy organizations, submitted a letter urging the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to reject codifying the distorted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism into agency rules, policies, or decisions.
Read MoreOn October 31st, Palestine Legal, the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the Center for Constitutional Rights have submitted a letter urging the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to take urgent special measures, including providing guidance to universities and schools, to ensure the protection of the fundamental rights of people calling for Palestinian freedom.
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 MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the years-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues unabated at George Washington University (GW).
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