For the staff at Palestine Legal, Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the past and present struggles of Native Americans, and all indigenous peoples whose histories have been, and continue to be, unwritten and rewritten at the hands of colonizers.
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.
Read MoreWe have some great speaking engagements lined up this fall, including at the US Campaign conference this month in Atlanta and the Palestine Center conference in October in DC. See details below, and don't miss out!
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal issued the following statement in response to recent incidents of racism at University of Missouri:
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of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
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