Today, Palestine Legal sent a letter to the University of Chicago president, calling on the administration to immediately condemn and investigate the latest poster campaign by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. On Thursday, October 20, a number of defamatory, hateful posters were found around campus targeting students due to their support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreUniversity of California Berkeley (Cal) reinstated a student-led course on Palestine this morning following an outcry over its arbitrary suspension last week. The suspension, taken in apparent response to pressure from Israel advocacy groups, was widely condemned -- by students, professors, and observers -- as a violation of academic freedom, shocking, and unjustifiable.
Read MorePalestine Legal joined American Muslims for Palestine, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, and local chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Jewish Voice for Peace to demand that the University of California Irvine (UCI), University of California Berkeley (UCB) and San Francisco State University (SFSU) protect campus members targeted by hateful posters.
Read MoreIt is important for Palestinian rights advocates to understand the extremely limited scope of AB 2844 as it was ultimately signed into law. Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights have created the following FAQ as a resource to inform Californians about the limited scope of the law.
Read MoreOn Saturday, September 24, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2844, ignoring constitutional concerns and a groundswell of opposition.
Read MorePalestine Legal wrote the University of California Berkeley today to challenge the school’s suspension of a student-led course, Ethnic Studies 198: Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis, after dozens of Israel advocacy groups and Israeli government officials complained. The course’s student-facilitator, Paul Hadweh, a senior Peace and Conflict Studies major, learned from media reports that his class was cancelled a week after the course started.
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