Virginia lawmakers voted to adopt the distorted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism into Virginia law. HB 1606 adopts IHRA, including its contemporary examples related to Israel, as a tool and guide for recognizing and combating antisemitic discrimination and hate crimes in Virginia.
Read MorePalestine Legal published our 2022 Year-in-Review this week, which documents trends in backlash facing the movement for Palestinian rights in the U.S. and the movement’s resilience against them. In nine years, from January 1, 2014, through December 31, 2022, Palestine Legal responded to a total of 2,201 incidents.
Read MoreYesterday, the D.C. Superior Court ended a 9-year harassment campaign against the American Studies Association (ASA) and several of its members over its historic 2013 academic boycott resolution.
Read MoreYesterday, Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the years-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues unabated at George Washington University (GW).
Read MorePalestine Legal is committed to uplifting important stories reflecting the widespread suppression of Palestine advocacy, and challenges to it, that don’t get national attention, while providing needed context and analysis on the stories that do. As we begin 2023, here’s a look back at our top five stories from 2022.
Read MoreLast week, Palestine Legal joined more than 40 civil rights, human rights, and grassroots organizations in calling on the American Bar Association (ABA) to remove reference to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition on Antisemitism in a proposed resolution on antisemitism.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has released a new fact sheet describing protections that cover students who are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, or of another religious group. The fact sheet comes after years of demands by pro-Israel groups and right-wing politicians for the Biden administration to further entrench the Trump-endorsed IHRA definition of antisemitism. The Israel lobby has demanded that Biden’s Education Department enshrine the distorted definition in federal regulations.
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