November 20, 2015. Palestine Legal issued the following statement today:
Palestine Legal is deeply concerned by a recent petition calling for CUNY to unconstitutionally ‘shut down’ SJP chapters because of student speech supporting Palestinian rights and by attempts to equate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism.Read More
Today, Palestine Legal sent a letter to the President of the University of Chicago, calling on the University to take appropriate steps to ensure that students can speak out in support of Palestinian freedom without fear of repression, intimidation, or physical threat based on religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
Read MorePalestine Legal supports students’ demands that the University of Texas investigate UT Professor Ami Pedahzur's attacks on members of Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at UT-Austin.
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Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal issued the following statement in response to recent incidents of racism at University of Missouri:
Read MoreOnce again, Israel advocacy groups were out on Monday to demand that the Regents brand criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic and "intolerant” – in the latest of many attempts to shut down one side of an important debate. The controversy is not about “intolerance.” This is a canard. Some campus members want to engage in critical discussion about Israeli policy, and others want to suppress it.
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