Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights today announced the filing of a “friend of the court” brief in support of the University of Pennsylvania in a lawsuit claiming that Penn violated civil rights laws by not doing enough to stop speech critical of Israel on campus.

Last week, Palestine Legal wrote to Ohio State University (OSU) expressing serious concerns about the school's repeated censorship and criminalization of student speech. The legal letter demands that the school end its discriminatory enforcement of vague and overly restrictive policies to conform with the First Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Across the US, professors—like Palestine Legal client Mohja Kahf—are continuing to speak out against Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, in defiance of racist attacks and repression.

Professor Mohja Kahf is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas (UofA), and an award-winning Syrian-Americanpoet.

Since December 2025, Professor Kahf has been subjected to a bogus antisemitism investigation by UofA. The complaint? She has two pro-Palestinian posters on her office door (one of which has been there since 2007).