DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

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DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

On Tuesday, October 24, the chancellor of the State University System of Florida, Ray Rodrigues, released a memorandum directing public universities in Florida to “deactivate” chapters of National Students for Justice in Palestine on their campuses. The memo is filled with erroneous factual and legal claims that seek to distract from, distort and silence the message of student activists across the United States the same way Israeli propaganda has sought to distract public attention from ongoing Israeli war crimes.

This is a blatant attack on students’ First Amendment rights, and it will be challenged in court.

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Radhika Sainath in Jacobin: The Anti-Palestinian Censorship Machine Runs on Racism

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Radhika Sainath in Jacobin: The Anti-Palestinian Censorship Machine Runs on Racism

Senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath published an op-ed in Jacobin on how censorship of Palestinian rights advocacy isn’t just a free speech issue — it’s often a manifestation of anti-Palestinian racism.

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Statement from Palestine Legal on Arkansas Anti-Boycott Ruling

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Statement from Palestine Legal on Arkansas Anti-Boycott Ruling

Today’s decision is an attack on our right to dissent from the status quo. In upholding Arkansas’ anti-BDS law, the court refused to confront the reality that these laws are part of an effort to shield Israel from accountability.

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SUNY Binghamton Wrongly Says Professors Can’t Condemn Israel’s Killing of Palestinian Children

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SUNY Binghamton Wrongly Says Professors Can’t Condemn Israel’s Killing of Palestinian Children

A public university in upstate New York violated the constitutional rights of one of its faculty by removing a professor’s bulletin board poster criticizing the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinian children. The university subsequently made a new rule limiting faculty from posting social or political content to their bulletin boards, also in contravention of the federal and NY State constitutions.

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Federal court rules Arkansas anti-boycott law violates First Amendment

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Federal court rules Arkansas anti-boycott law violates First Amendment

Last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Arkansas anti-boycott law violates the First Amendment, reversing the trial court's dismissal of an Arkansas newspaper's challenge to the law. The Arkansas Times was represented by the ACLU in this challenge. The decision is the first time a federal appeals court has decided on the constitutionality of anti-boycott laws.

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Rights Groups Urge Court to Uphold Decision Against Texas Anti-Boycott Law

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Rights Groups Urge Court to Uphold Decision Against Texas Anti-Boycott Law

This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a lawsuit seeking to strike down a Texas law that requires government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.

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NJ Library Censorship of Toddler Book Event is Unconstitutional

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NJ Library Censorship of Toddler Book Event is Unconstitutional

Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the ACLU of New Jersey wrote the Highland Park Public Library today to inform the library that its cancellation of a May 19 event organized by the Central New Jersey chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) violates the First Amendment. The library had put out a statement that the event was cancelled pending a review by the library’s board after community members complained.

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