After a two-month investigation, the City University of New York (CUNY) General Counsel’s office issued a report late Friday vindicating student organizers of a February 7th event at Brooklyn College (BC) from accusations of anti-Semitic discrimination. Read more here.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and other civil rights groups have written to the Presidents of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California expressing alarm after a professor on campus cursed at a Palestinian student and called him a cockroach. The incident occurred during the Claremont Colleges Students for Justice in Palestine's mock Israeli checkpoint action. The Colleges' responses have suggested that there is more interest in blaming the students for alleged violations of the campus demonstrations policy rather than remedying the harms of racial bias and repression of speech. The letter emphasizes the Colleges obligation to protect students who advocate for Palestinian rights from intimidation and racial bias. See the full letter here.
Watch this break down of how civil rights law is being distorted to silence criticism of Israel. Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights provides an overview of the misuse of Title VI.
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Discussion at CUNY School of Law, Silencing Dissent: Efforts to Suppress & Criminalize Advocacy for Palestinian Human Rights in the U.S. April 1st.
Brooklyn College SJP has issued a statement in response to the false allegations and baseless legal threats following their BDS event. The statement rejects
false allegations that student disruptors were removed from the BDS event because they were Jewish or had opposing views. Read the Brooklyn College SJP statement and coverage from the advocacy media.
CCR and NLG sent a letter to eight New York City Council Members that signed a letter threatening to withhold funding from Brooklyn College if it did not cancel or withdraw its co-sponsorship from a student-organized event on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel that took place on February 7, 2013. The letter advises the Council Members that the First Amendment prohibits public officials from withholding benefits in an effort to suppress speech that they find "offensive" and asks them to withdraw their signatures. Two of the ten original signatories had already withdrawn their signatures. See the letter here.
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