Palestine Legal Director Dima Khalidi argues that universities’ complete surrender to Trump’s threats and ever-harsher crackdowns on the student movement “will not release them from the administration’s crosshairs. (Columbia has learned that lesson 400 million times over).” Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Steve Clemons’ Al Jazeera show The Bottom Line alongside UK journalist British journalist Richard Medhurst, about the increasing attacks on pro-Palestine speech and assembly.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront alongside Ilan Pappe, renowned author and professor of history at Exeter University, about the limits to free speech on the Israel-Gaza war.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi joined Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! for a live interview this morning alongside our brilliant client, NYU law student Ryna Workman. Ryna was removed as president of the school’s Student Bar Association and lost a job offer from corporate law firm Winston & Strawn after they wrote a newsletter expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
This has not stopped Ryna from speaking out, and using their platform to call for a ceasefire and an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.
Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront to discuss the ways false accusations of antisemitism are being used to silence support for Palestinian rights.
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