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 response to Palestine protests and acts of solidarity around the country this spring, Palestine Legal witnessed a significant uptick in the amount and severity of backlash against Palestine advocates by Israel and its allies in the U.S. Here we highlight some of the major trends we witnessed in our cases and intakes and in the movement more broadly between May and June 2021.
Read MorePalestine 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.
Read MorePalestine Legal joins widespread international condemnation of Israel’s annexation attempts in the West Bank and highlights legal resources for protesters participating in Wednesday’s Day of Rage against annexation in the U.S.
Read MoreThis Thanksgiving, we recognize our own status as settlers on Native land, and we pledge to stand against the continued loss of sacred lands to developers and oil companies, the spoliation of water sources, and the exploitation of communities.
Read MoreThis “Thanksgiving,” Palestine Legal recalls the fact that the holiday is “a completely made up story,” “the origin story of the United States, the beginning of genocide and dispossession and constant warfare…a colonial system that was set up,” as indigenous historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz recently stated.
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