Palestine Legal to Oberlin: False Accusations of Anti-Semitism are a Tool of Suppression

Palestine Legal to Oberlin: False Accusations of Anti-Semitism are a Tool of Suppression

On Tuesday, Palestine Legal sent a letter to Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov in response to recent accusations of anti-Semitism against the student group Students for a Free Palestine (SFP) at the Ohio liberal arts college.

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New York State wants to blacklist you

New York State wants to blacklist you

Today, Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Lawyers Guild issued a legal memorandum to New York State legislators raising alarm over two McCarthyist bills pending in the state legislature. One bill passed the State Senate last week.

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2015 Year-in-Review: Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Continues

2015 Year-in-Review: Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Continues

Palestine Legal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom, responded to 240 incidents in 2015. Eighty percent of the incidents—which included baseless legal complaints, administrative disciplinary actions, bureaucratic barriers, and false accusations of terrorism and antisemitism—targeted students and scholars across the country. Palestine Legal received an additional 64 requests for legal assistance in anticipation of such incidents.

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University of California: Where are the female (or Black, LGBTQ, Latino, Arab, Muslim, etc.) “experts on intolerance”?

University of California: Where are the female (or Black, LGBTQ, Latino, Arab, Muslim, etc.) “experts on intolerance”?

Palestine Legal joins a chorus of California organizations to express our dismay at the all-male panel of experts on “intolerance” that the UC Regents has consulted in efforts to improve the campus climate for vulnerable communities. 

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Palestine Legal, NLG call on Loyola to Repeal Demo Policy, Apologize to SJP

Palestine Legal, NLG call on Loyola to Repeal Demo Policy, Apologize to SJP

Yesterday, Palestine Legal and the NLG-Chicago sent a letter to Loyola University Chicago (LUC) demanding that LUC protect student speech and dissent by fully repealing burdensome demonstration policies that the university has temporarily suspended, including a requirement that students register all demonstrations with the administration three days in advance

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Palestine Legal's 2015 Social Media Highlights

Palestine Legal's 2015 Social Media Highlights

Whew! It’s been quite a year. As we prepare to enter 2016, we took a minute to reflect on our work in 2015. We thought we’d share some of our social media highlights, and we hope you'll join us on Facebook and Twitter:

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UAW International Nullifies Democratic Vote of Graduate Student-Workers for Boycott and Divestment

UAW International Nullifies Democratic Vote of Graduate Student-Workers for Boycott and Divestment

Last December, the labor union representing over 14,000 graduate student workers at the University of California (UC) – UAW Local 2865 – voted by a clear majority to demand that their union and their employer, the UC, divest from companies complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.  

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