This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a lawsuit seeking to strike down a Texas law that requires government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.
Read MoreToday, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the adoption of state laws that disproportionately harm communities of color. “ALEC Attacks: How evangelicals and corporations captured state lawmaking to safeguard white supremacy and corporate power” traces the establishment of the organization by evangelical conservative activists in the 1970s to counter advances made by the civil rights movement, through to the transformation of ALEC in the early 1990s to be a more stridently pro-corporate lobbying organization.
Read MorePalestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) warned the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to end its censorship of educator Jon Cohen’s support for Palestinian rights in two letters this year.
Read MoreMore than 400 years after the first European settlement of Turtle Island, Palestine Legal acknowledges that the territory on which we live is the product of ongoing settler colonialism, racial and religious supremacy. We understand Israel to be the product of these same forces.
Because the injustices our communities face are interrelated, the contemporary attacks on Indigenous activism, Palestinian rights, and on Black and Brown lives cannot be separated. That’s why we’re are proud to support those working towards justice in Palestine, to stand alongside Black and Indigenous advocates fighting for justice on Turtle Island, and to build strategies for legal support across movements.
Read MoreDespite an international campaign attempting to censor the 9th National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference, hundreds of students gathered Nov. 1-3 at the University of Minnesota (UMN) to strengthen student organizing across the country. NSJP and its attendees were subject to numerous attacks during and leading up to the conference.
Read MoreWith hundreds of supporters signing on to their petition, Georgia Tech chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) successfully appealed sanctions they faced over an April 2019 teach-in on Palestine.
Read MorePalestine Legal participated in this year’s National Lawyers Guild #Law4ThePeople convention in a panel on "Criminalizing the Right to Protest: State Crack Downs on Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian Resistance." Senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath spoke alongside movement lawyers and activists from Greenpeace USA, the Water Protector Legal Collective, Law for Black Lives, and Black Lives Matter DC. The following are some highlights from each speaker:
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