Guide: How to Shield Yourself From Risk When Planning Actions on Campus

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Guide: How to Shield Yourself From Risk When Planning Actions on Campus

Preparing for an action on campus? Use this guide to assess your risk and prepare to fight back! Over the past two years, students have organized in unprecedented numbers to stand in solidarity with Palestine. However, instead of listening to students’ demands for institutions to end their complicity in genocide, universities are taking increasingly punitive measures to punish their students for using their voices.

This guide has important resources from Palestine Legal and trusted partners to ensure you can protect yourself and others, and reduce harm from repression.

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Legal Resources for Activists Advocating for Palestine Across the U.S.

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Legal Resources for Activists Advocating for Palestine Across the U.S.

Palestine Legal has been receiving an unprecedented surge in requests for legal support as the Trump administration escalates its repression of the movement for justice in Palestine — with many of the same tools that it inherited from the Biden administration and its unwavering support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Activists and community members have been doxxed, investigated, censored, questioned, fired, jailed, and even assaulted simply because of their views, while government officials appear to be mobilizing law enforcement resources against them for their speech activities.

While we work to respond to these requests, these guides and contacts from Palestine Legal and partner organizations will help you assess risks, protect yourself and others, and reduce harm from repression.

While we work to respond to these requests, here are resources to prepare for and resist backlash against your activism, including contact information for other organizations responding to this unprecedented backlash.

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Palestine Legal Stands Firmly with the Palestine Movement, Condemns Rising Anti-Palestinian Attacks

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Palestine Legal Stands Firmly with the Palestine Movement, Condemns Rising Anti-Palestinian Attacks

Palestine Legal expresses our firm and unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination and freedom. The events of the last few days broke the barriers – physical and psychological – of Israel’s inhumane 16-year long siege of over two million Palestinians in Gaza, of 75-years of dispossession, exile and apartheid, of Israel’s invincibility and Palestinian invisibility. 

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Winter & Spring Events with Palestine Legal

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Winter & Spring Events with Palestine Legal

Palestine Legal staff participated in a number of events during winter and spring this year on topics ranging from attacks on Palestine advocates in the US, to free speech and the right to boycott, to a Know Your Rights workshop geared towards student activists. Stay tuned to this page for updates.

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Legal Resources for Student Organizing for Palestine

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Legal Resources for Student Organizing for Palestine

We’re sharing some essential Palestine Legal resources about your right to organize for Palestine on campus and beyond, including:

  • Our Know Your Rights resources for students

  • 10 Reasons for Students to Call Palestine Legal

  • Our interactive guide on efforts to redefine antisemitism to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights

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Advisory on Law Enforcement Visits to Palestine Activists

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Advisory on Law Enforcement Visits to Palestine Activists

In 2018, Palestine Legal issued an advisory and an update regarding FBI visits to Palestine activists. Given new reports we have heard of activists being questioned by the FBI and local police amid this year’s popular uprising for Palestinian rights and new and updated resources from the National Lawyers’ Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights, we wanted to reissue this information for our community.

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#SaveSheikhJarrah #DefendGaza - Legal Resources for #NakbaAt73 Palestine Protests

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Palestine Legal joins widespread international condemnation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing efforts in East Jerusalem, severe repression of protesters, and indiscriminate murder of Palestinians in Gaza. We share legal resources for protesters organizing or participating in demonstrations, as well as an incomplete list of actions around the U.S. organized by Palestinian communities and their supporters.

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