Claremont Colleges botch response to student speech critical of Israel
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Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote to the presidents of the five Claremont Colleges demanding they fix a botched job on free speech.
Media Release: UC's proposed intolerance statement is unenforceable
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The University of California (UC) Regents Working Group on Principles Against Intolerance has asked the Regents to adopt a report and an accompanying policy on Principles Against Intolerance at their March 23 meeting in San Francisco Mission Bay. The report states that “anti-Zionism” is a form of discrimination.
Read MoreVassar Trustees threaten $900K over BDS
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The Vassar Student Association (VSA) Executive Board was informed last week that if it were to pass a BDS amendment, the college’s Board of Trustees would “remove” student control of college funds for student activities, amounting to around $900,000.
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Marquette University Censors SJP Mock Apartheid Wall
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On Sunday evening, February 21, members of Marquette University’s Students for Justice in Palestine erected a mock Israeli separation wall on campus to kick off Israeli Apartheid Week. The wall featured slogans and pictures that appear on the actual separation wall in Palestine. They had reserved the space and received approval from the University administration for their fliers and publicity. But the next morning, the wall was gone; the University administration had confiscated it.
Read More#UMNDivest resolution countered with proposal to restrict student speech
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Yesterday, University of Minnesota student organizers introduced a resolution in the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) calling on the University to divest from four companies that profit from human rights abuses of Palestinians. If successful, the #UMNDivest campaign, spearheaded by Students for Justice in Palestine, would add University of Minnesota to the growing list of university student bodies that have passed divestment resolutions to support Palestinian freedom and human rights.
Read MorePalestine Legal calls on Florida Governor Scott to veto anti-BDS bill
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Today, Palestine Legal, Center for Constitutional Rights, CAIR-Florida, and the National Lawyers Guild of South Florida sent a letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott urging him to veto a troubling bill aimed at punishing and suppressing First Amendment-protected boycotts for Palestinian freedom.
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