Media Roundup: Palestine Legal on unprecedented surge in anti-Palestinian repression since October 7th

Media Roundup: Palestine Legal on unprecedented surge in anti-Palestinian repression since October 7th

As the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza has reached unfathomable proportions, so has the war of repression here: since Oct. 7th we’ve received an unprecedented 1300+ reports from people targeted for Palestine advocacy across cities and industries—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity. 

Here is a media round-up of 10 key articles written by staff and reporters highlighting the wave of anti-Palestinian repression and the resistance to it in both mainstream and progressive outlets such as: Democracy Now!, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, and others. 

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Danya Zituni in The Daily Beast: Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Voices Proves Israel Is Losing

Danya Zituni in The Daily Beast: Silencing of Pro-Palestinian Voices Proves Israel Is Losing

Communications Manager Danya Zituni wrote an important op-ed in The Daily Beast on why the machine of anti-Palestinian repression is failing.

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Media Roundup: Palestine Legal and ACLU file lawsuit challenging DeSantis' deactivation order against SJPs

Media Roundup: Palestine Legal and ACLU file lawsuit challenging DeSantis' deactivation order against SJPs

On November 16th, the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (UF SJP) filed a lawsuit challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida’s order to state universities to deactivate the student group. The lawsuit aims to protect UF students’ First Amendment right to free speech. UF SJP is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal.

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Radhika Sainath in Boston Review: The Free Speech Exception

Radhika Sainath in Boston Review: The Free Speech Exception

Senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath penned an excellent op-ed in the Boston Review on how the climate of censorship, suppression, and intimidation aimed at supporters of Palestinian rights that we are witnessing resembles the aftermath of 9/11.

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Dylan Saba in n+1: A Surge in Suppression

Dylan Saba in n+1: A Surge in Suppression

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.

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Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: The double standards of free speech on Palestine

Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: The double standards of free speech on Palestine

Palestine 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.

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Dima Khalidi on Democracy Now! with NYU law student Ryna Workman

Dima Khalidi on Democracy Now! with NYU law student Ryna Workman

Palestine 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.

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