Palestine Legal staff attorney Dylan Saba published an important Op-Ed in n+1 on the wave of retaliation and censorship of political expression in solidarity with Palestinians that we’ve witnessed over the past month.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront alongside Ilan Pappe, renowned author and professor of history at Exeter University, about the limits to free speech on the Israel-Gaza war.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi joined Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! for a live interview this morning alongside our brilliant client, NYU law student Ryna Workman. Ryna was removed as president of the school’s Student Bar Association and lost a job offer from corporate law firm Winston & Strawn after they wrote a newsletter expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
This has not stopped Ryna from speaking out, and using their platform to call for a ceasefire and an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.
On September 12th, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into the University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students.
Below is a media roundup on the Title VI complaint in outlets including The Electronic Intifada, CBS News Chicago, and Middle East Eye.
Read MoreOn June 13th, Palestine Legal wrote a civil rights letter signed by 13 legal groups to the City University of New York (CUNY) to raise serious concerns that the university's statement condemning as “hate speech” the principled remarks by CUNY Law graduate Fatima Mohammed violated state and federal laws.
Below is a media roundup on our support for Fatima Mohammed mentioned in outlets including Jewish Currents, The Daily Beast, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, and The Forward.
Read MoreSenior staff attorney Radhika Sainath published an op-ed in Jacobin on how censorship of Palestinian rights advocacy isn’t just a free speech issue — it’s often a manifestation of anti-Palestinian racism.
Read MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the years-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues unabated at George Washington University (GW).
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