New York lawmakers, seemingly baffled by the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian freedom, are despairing for the good old days of McCarthyism, when speech was suppressed and activists’ livelihoods endangered with the simple creation of a blacklist.
Read MoreAcross California, students are increasingly supporting Palestinian human rights through boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) campaigns that promote Palestinian freedom and equality. The movement, similar to the United Farm Workers' nonviolent grape boycott, is designed to create political and economic pressure on Israel to comply with international human rights.
Read MoreOn November 3, Minneapolis activists protested a University of Minnesota Law School event featuring Moshe Halbertal, co-author of the Israel Defense Force’s Code of Ethics.
Read MoreOn December 2, Palestinian-American artist and author of the graphic novel Baddawi, Leila Abdelrazaq, and two friends were detained and interrogated near the Mexico border because Ms. Abdelrazaq's notebook sketches and Arabic writing apparently raised red flags.
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We are pleased to share the extensive media coverage of George Washington University's flag-gate 2015, in which GWU President Steven Knapp apologized to pre-med student Ramie Abounaja for the college's discriminatory removal of his Palestinian flag.
Read MoreWe are excited to share the extensive media coverage of our report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US, released last Wednesday in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Read MoreToday, as the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security holds a hearing on the impact of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, Palestine Legal released the following statement
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