Senior staff attorney Liz Jackson was recently interviewed by The Boston Globe in an article exposing the kind of pressure academics who speak out for Palestinian rights face on college campuses. It highlights how the Palestine Exception to free speech affects academic freedom on Palestine, and features powerful Palestinian female professors who have resisted the censorship and bullying.
Read MoreOur staff attorney, Dylan Saba, spoke to the Electronic Intifada, and New York University’s (NYU) independent student newspaper Washington Square News, about our client who is a graduate student worker at NYU put under investigation by the administration for the alleged “vandalism” of an Israeli mail services bag discarded in a recycling bin.
Read MoreOur advocacy manager, Lina Assi, spoke to the Electronic Intifada and Mondoweiss about an important victory: the Department of Education’s exclusion of the distorted IHRA definition in its guidance on addressing antisemitism and other discrimination in US schools – despite heavy pressure from Israel lobby groups that use IHRA as a censorship tool.
Read MoreCommunications Manager Danya Zituni published an op-ed in Truthout, on an alarming new trend of multiple U.S. cities and counties voting to adopt the distorted definition of antisemitism used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). In the Op-Ed, Danya argues that the IHRA definition is also dangerously being used to expand the scope and power of police surveillance, and provides quotes from organizers challenging IHRA on the ground from Stop LAPD Spying and Palestinian Youth Movement.
Read MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s support for Berkeley law students in defense of their free speech rights. Law students at the University of California at Berkeley continue to face threats and attacks because of their commitment not to host speakers who support Israeli apartheid.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront to discuss the ways false accusations of antisemitism are being used to silence support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s civil rights complaint against George Washington University and student protests against GW’s discriminatory treatment against Palestinians. Our complaint challenges GW's selective and discriminatory cancelation of trauma support services for Palestinian students.
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