Palestine Legal to Google: You Can't Discriminate Against Workers Organizing for Palestinian Freedom

Palestine Legal to Google: You Can't Discriminate Against Workers Organizing for Palestinian Freedom

Palestine Legal warned Google against unlawful worker retaliation as thousands of Google and Amazon employees called on their employers to end contracts with the Israeli government, including the billion-dollar Project Nimbus.

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Media Roundup: George Washington University’s Anti-Palestinian Discrimination

Media Roundup: George Washington University’s Anti-Palestinian Discrimination

Here is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s civil rights complaint against George Washington University and student protests against GW’s discriminatory treatment against Palestinians. Our complaint challenges GW's selective and discriminatory cancelation of trauma support services for Palestinian students.

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GW Responds to Public Outcry But Falls Short in Supporting Palestinian Students

GW Responds to Public Outcry But Falls Short in Supporting Palestinian Students

George 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.

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George Washington University Selectively Denies Trauma Services to Palestinians: New Civil Rights Complaint  

George Washington University Selectively Denies Trauma Services to Palestinians: New Civil Rights Complaint  

Palestine 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.

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Palestine Legal Submits Report to UN on Canary Mission Discrimination 

Palestine Legal Submits Report to UN on Canary Mission Discrimination 

Palestine Legal submitted the following submission last fall regarding the use of the anonymous blacklisting site Canary Mission against Arabs and Muslims to the United Nations Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

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Success: UIC Reverses Ban on Palestine Event

Success: UIC Reverses Ban on Palestine Event

A community group in Rockford, Ill., that had been blocked from renting space for an event featuring Israeli-American activist and author Miko Peled successfully held their event on Saturday after Palestine Legal intervened.

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Take Action: No Chicago Bar Association conference in Jerusalem

Take Action: No Chicago Bar Association conference in Jerusalem

Palestine 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.

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