Palestine Legal received over 2,000 requests for legal support last year, a 55% increase from 2023, and a 600% increase from 2022. Here is a media roundup of the top 4 stories about the landmark settlement from outlets including DC News Now, Fox 5 DC, Truthout, and The New Arab.
Read MoreAs students return to school this fall, here are the top three ways we are seeing universities intensify their crackdowns on campus activism, and ways they’re being challenged.
Read MorePalestine Legal received over 2,000 requests for legal support last year, a 55% increase from 2023, and a 600% increase from 2022. Here is a media roundup of the top 5 stories citing Palestine Legal’s new report from outlets including The Guardian, Mondoweiss, and American Community Media.
Read MorePalestine Legal, a legal aid organization supporting the movement for Palestinian freedom in the U.S., received over 2,000 requests for legal support last year, a 55% increase from 2023, and a 600% increase from 2022. About two-thirds of reports of people targeted for their Palestine-related advocacy that Palestine Legal received in 2024 were campus-related, including over 100 reports at K-12 institutions.
The report comes as the Trump administration threatens and implements sweeping actions against Palestine protestors on college campuses, including deportations, federal investigations, and withholding hundreds of millions in funding from universities.
Read MoreWith reports that the incoming Trump administration is plotting a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests, ranging from federal prosecution of campus demonstrators to deporting international student protesters, several media outlets have reached out to Palestine Legal for comment.
Here is a media roundup of the top 7 stories featuring Palestine Legal’s commentary about the Trump administration’s recent repression from outlets including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Hill, Democracy Now!, and Columbia Spectator.
Read MorePalestine Legal Director Dima Khalidi argues that universities’ complete surrender to Trump’s threats and ever-harsher crackdowns on the student movement “will not release them from the administration’s crosshairs. (Columbia has learned that lesson 400 million times over).” Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.
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