State Dept. Push to Label Human Rights Orgs ‘Antisemitic’ Exposes Repressive Intent of Redefinition Efforts

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State Dept. Push to Label Human Rights Orgs ‘Antisemitic’ Exposes Repressive Intent of Redefinition Efforts

In the latest manifestation of a Trump-backed campaign to redefine antisemitism, the U.S. State Department reportedly plans to designate three prominent human rights groups as antisemitic due to their criticism of Israel’s violations of international law.

According to news sources, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could soon release a report that would label Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam International as antisemitic groups, bar federal funding to the organizations and encourage foreign governments to do the same.

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Big Tech Censors Palestine—Again

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Exactly a month after censoring a Palestine webinar at San Francisco State, Zoom has censored two other campus Palestine events—this time at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa (UHM) and at New York University (NYU).

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Butler Students Defeat Measures to Censor Palestine

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Students at Butler University in Indiana mounted a successful campaign against two resolutions cracking down on the right to advocate for Palestine on campus. The resolutions had been proposed as retaliation against an event featuring protest art from around the world.

Palestine Legal wrote to Butler earlier this week after an administrator boosted the censorship campaign in a campus-wide email. The letter explained that Butler had failed its students by giving a stamp of approval to a widespread harassment campaign targeting advocacy for Palestine on college campuses.

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Summer 2020: Recap of Efforts to Silence Palestine Advocacy

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Summer 2020: Recap of Efforts to Silence Palestine Advocacy

As we head into the fall, here’s a recap of some of the biggest stories of the summer targeting advocacy for Palestinian rights in the U.S.

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CUNY Law Compromises Palestinian Student’s Safety, Caves to Zionist Pressure

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CUNY Law Compromises Palestinian Student’s Safety, Caves to Zionist Pressure

The unprofessional response of City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law to a Zionist smear campaign has fueled vicious cyberbullying against a Palestinian student.

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Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class

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Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class

Three tech giants censored a discussion featuring Palestinian, Black, Jewish and South African activists at San Francisco State University today, after pro-Israel advocacy groups complained. The open classroom event “Whose Narratives?: Gender, Justice & Resistance” featured Palestinian activist Leila Khaled and was scheduled to take place at 12:30 PDT before being erased from Zoom, Facebook and YouTube.

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Federal Crackdown on Campus Palestine Activism: Title VI Attacks

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As the Israeli government and its proxy groups operating in the United States continue to mount coordinated campaigns against the movement for Palestinian freedom and equality, these groups have coopted the language and tools of civil rights to stifle Palestine activism on U.S. campuses.

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