Palestine Legal Launches Comprehensive, Interactive Site Tracking Legislation Targeting Palestine Advocacy

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Palestine Legal Launches Comprehensive, Interactive Site Tracking Legislation Targeting Palestine Advocacy

Palestine Legal launched a new website tracking legislative efforts to silence the movement for Palestinian freedom in the U.S. Geared towards activists, researchers, journalists, and policymakers alike, the site aims to document one part of a widespread attack on the Palestine solidarity movement in the U.S., and to support efforts to push back against these threats.

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Past Webinars with Palestine Legal

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Past Webinars with Palestine Legal

Palestine Legal staff have organized and participated in a number of webinars this year on topics from FBI spying and frivolous legal complaints against Palestine advocates to the Right to Boycott and Black liberation. Watch and read videos and articles from the events.

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Palestine Legal to California: Stop Erasing Palestinian Narratives

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Palestine Legal to California: Stop Erasing Palestinian Narratives

California has demoted Arab American studies to second-class status in its ethnic studies curriculum after backlash from Israel advocacy groups over the inclusion of narratives around Palestine and boycotts for Palestinian freedom.

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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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