With reports that the Trump administration is plotting a whole-of-government crackdown on pro-Palestine campus demonstrators and other orders that could devastate higher education, Palestine Legal has received a recent wave of reports from students across the country confronting a new level of repression for pro-Palestine protests.
Read MoreIn a dangerous escalation of repression, New York University announced new student conduct policies last week that appear to prohibit criticism of Zionism. If implemented, these policies risk creating a hostile environment for Palestinian and anti-Zionist Jewish students and severely curtail the free expression of all students.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi joined Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! for a live interview this morning alongside our brilliant client, NYU law student Ryna Workman. Ryna was removed as president of the school’s Student Bar Association and lost a job offer from corporate law firm Winston & Strawn after they wrote a newsletter expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
This has not stopped Ryna from speaking out, and using their platform to call for a ceasefire and an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.
After facing public backlash, NYU’s Office of Student Conduct has dropped its false discrimination charge against graduate student worker Naye Idriss, who was accused in November 2022 of antisemitism after she wrote “Fuck” over the word ‘Israel,’ and “Free Palestine” on an Israeli mail bag that had been discarded in the recycling at Bobst Library, where she worked in the mailroom.
Read MoreOur staff attorney, Dylan Saba, spoke to the Electronic Intifada, and New York University’s (NYU) independent student newspaper Washington Square News, about our client who is a graduate student worker at NYU put under investigation by the administration for the alleged “vandalism” of an Israeli mail services bag discarded in a recycling bin.
Read MorePalestine Legal is supporting NYU law students active with Law Student for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) as they face an investigation based on frivolous complaints falsely alleging antisemitism following a public email exchange with members of Law Students for Israel.
Read MoreThe Intercept published a comprehensive report on Zoom’s censorship of academic events on Palestine at San Francisco State University, NYU and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, quoting Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi.
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