Palestine Legal is calling on Duke University to apologize for and remedy an intimidating pattern of monitoring the online speech of a student who is active with Duke Students for Justice in Palestine.
Read MorePalestine Legal just released a new report analyzing attempts to censor the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights in 2019. While efforts to silence the movement intensified from public officials and institutions, activists pushed back, winning key victories on campus and in court. Palestine Legal responded to 247 incidents of suppression of U.S.-based Palestine advocacy over the course of 2019, totaling 1,494 suppression incidents between 2014 and 2019.
Read MoreStaff attorney Zoha Khalili spoke on today's episode of Al Jazeera - The Stream about US government attacks on Middle East Studies at Duke and UNC following a March conference on Gaza.
Read MoreThree months after announcing that it would investigate the use of federal funds in an academic conference on Gaza at the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Department of Education has published a letter threatening to withdraw funding from the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, which sponsored the event.
Sent a week after the start of the fall semester, the letter threatens to cut off funding to Middle East Studies unless Duke-UNC provides a “revised schedule of activities that it plans to support for the coming year, including a description demonstrating how each activity promotes foreign language learning and advances the national security interests and economic stability of the United States” by September 22.
Read MoreStaff attorney Zoha Khalili spoke to the New York Times about the government's effort to dictate what university students learn about Palestine and the rest of the Middle East.
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