Today, right-wing anti-Palestinian crusader Kenneth Marcus was confirmed as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education on a narrow, party-line vote.
Read MoreThe fact that 25 states now have legislation targeting advocacy for Palestinian rights indicates the level to which private anti-Palestinian forces are influencing our public institutions to intimidate and punish advocacy for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreOn May 14, the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City asked members of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network, a group that educates clinicians on the impact of Israeli human rights abuses on the mental health of Palestinians, to move a symposium on mental health issues in Palestine.
Read MoreYesterday, members of Congress announced the reintroduction of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (ASAA), a bill aimed at censoring Palestine advocacy on college campuses by imposing on the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) a widely-criticized and overbroad re-definition of antisemitism that classifies virtually all speech critical of Israel as antisemitic.
Read MoreFor years, rightwing Israel advocacy groups like the Amcha Initiative and the Brandeis Center have attacked Middle East studies programs across the country, using flawed research to mischaracterize them as “biased,” “anti-American,” and “anti-Israel.”
Read MorePalestinians mark 70 years since the start of the Nakba, the catastrophe that began with the forced expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
Read MoreWe share a statement issued by the #JusticeDelegation, a group of lawyers and activists from the U.S. who recently returned from a trip to Palestine organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Interfaith Peace Builders.
Read MorePalestine Legal is an independent organization dedicated to defending and advancing the civil rights and liberties
of people in the US who speak out for Palestinian freedom.
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