Following Mike Pompeo’s announcement that Trump’s State Department intends to defund and label as "antisemitic" groups that support boycotts for Palestinian freedom, director Dima Khalidi spoke to Al Jazeera English on the larger context of attacks on Palestine advocacy.
The 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.
Read MoreThe New York Times reported this week that Marcus resigned after we filed a complaint to the Inspector General outlining the ways he violated the law in service of his anti-Palestinian agenda. The article features staff attorney Zoha Khalili.
Read MoreThe North Jersey Record covered the complaint that Palestine Legal and 8 other civil rights organizations filed with the Department of Education against Kenneth Marcus for violating federal law while investigating Rutgers University at the behest of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). The article quotes staff attorney Zoha Khalili and Rutgers SJP:
the complaint Palestine Legal and 8 other civil rights organizations filed against Kenneth Marcus for violating federal law while investigating Rutgers University at the behest of the Zionist Organization of America
Read MoreSenior staff attorney Liz Jackson appears in an extensive Jewish Currents profile on lawfare efforts to silence campus Palestine advocacy.
Read MoreSenior staff attorney Meera Shah was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the impacts of Trump’s antisemitism executive order.
Read MoreLast December, the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility at Brown voted to divest from companies complicit in violations of Palestinian human rights. This followed a student referendum that from Brown University Divest passed by an overwhelming margin in March. The university's president refuses to honor these calls. Senior staff attorney Liz Jackson published an op-ed in the Brown Daily Herald telling her alma mater that it must divest from Israel's abuse of Palestinian human rights:
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