On 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 MorePalestine Legal, together with other legal organizations including ADC, CCR, NLG, Law for Black Lives, the National Lawyers Guild and Project South issued an open letter to workplace leaders urging them to take measures to protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination, and against retaliation for employees' political views. The letter emphasizes the unprecedented wave of workplace discrimination and employment consequences people who are advocating for Palestinian lives are facing.
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 MorePalestine Legal joined civil rights and Muslim advocacy groups in denouncing Islamophobic attacks against Nourhan Mesbah, the newly-elected vice president of the College Democrats of America, based on one tweet she made as a child. Read the full press release from American Muslims for Palestine here.
Read MoreThe unprofessional response of City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law to a Zionist smear campaign has fueled vicious cyberbullying against a Palestinian student.
Read MoreWe grieve with the community of Poway, California who lost a loved one to hate. We are frightened as the safety of Jewish communities continues to be threatened by white supremacists. Seeing that the Poway synagogue murderer was inspired by the New Zealand mosque attacks and also set fire to the Escondido Mosque nearby painfully reinforces the fact that anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate go hand in hand. We are in this together, and we must defeat all forms of racism together
Read MorePalestine Legal sends our condolences and love to our Muslim friends and family in the wake of the horrific mosque attacks in New Zealand. We understand that many in our communities are experiencing a variety of feelings - from concern for their own personal safety to anger at the ways in which the media and public continue to uphold white supremacy and Islamophobia in their responses to the massacre.
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