Palestine Legal In The News on Redefining Antisemitism

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Palestine Legal In The News on Redefining Antisemitism

Palestine Legal and our resources were featured in three articles on a new definition of antisemitism introduced as a moderate alternative to the widely criticized International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), was released last week by 200 Jewish studies and other scholars, attempting to address the harms caused by the IHRA working definition, which conflated Palestine advocacy with anti-Jewish discrimination..

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UCLA Doxing Case In The News

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UCLA Doxing Case In The News

Palestine Legal, our clients and partners were featured in a number of articles about our victory against an attorney with ties to the Israeli government who attempted to force UCLA to reveal the list of speakers at the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference in 2018. On March 11, a judge in California ruled that disclosure would violate the presenters’ rights to freedom of association, speech and privacy.

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Dima Khalidi's Op-Ed on the Biden Transition and Palestine Advocacy

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Dima Khalidi's Op-Ed on the Biden Transition and Palestine Advocacy

Director Dima Khalidi published an op-ed in In These Times about the need for the Biden administration to rescind policies from Trump and his predecessors against Palestine advocacy.

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Palestine Legal & Fordham SJP In The News

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Palestine Legal & Fordham SJP In The News

The Fordham Observer and North Jersey Record each covered last week’s court hearing in the seminal case. Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Adam Levine represent Fordham University students, and urged the appellate court to reject Fordham’s effort to overturn the lower court’s ruling that the school’s ban on an SJP club was arbitrary and capricious.

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Dima Khalidi in Al Jazeera English on Pompeo's Anti-BDS Attacks

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Dima Khalidi in Al Jazeera English on Pompeo's Anti-BDS Attacks

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.

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Dima Khalidi in The Intercept on Zoom Censorship

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Dima Khalidi in The Intercept on Zoom Censorship

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.

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Zoha Khalili in the NYT on Kenneth Marcus's Resignation from the Dept. of Ed.

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Zoha Khalili in the NYT on Kenneth Marcus's Resignation from the Dept. of Ed.

The 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.

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