Palestine Legal Joins Community and Civil Rights Groups to Demand an End to UCSF's Unlawful Practices

Palestine Legal Joins Community and Civil Rights Groups to Demand an End to UCSF's Unlawful Practices

Palestine Legal joins eleven other community and civil rights organizations to demand that the University of California, San Francisco, end its discriminatory campaign of intimidating and silencing students, faculty, staff, and other members of the UCSF community who have spoken out against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians.

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Federal Court Rules Florida Officials Do Not Intend to Deactivate University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine

Federal Court Rules Florida Officials Do Not Intend to Deactivate University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida today denied the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine’s request for a preliminary injunction, finding that Florida officials do not intend to deactivate the Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). UF SJP is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal.

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Palestine Legal, CAIR-GA, Community and Civil Rights Groups Demand Emory University Protect Palestinian, Muslim and Arab Students from Harassment

Palestine Legal, CAIR-GA, Community and Civil Rights Groups Demand Emory University Protect Palestinian, Muslim and Arab Students from Harassment

Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Georgia, along with eight other community and civil rights, sent a letter to Emory University on behalf of Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab students at Emory who have been the target of anti-Palestinian, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and racist harassment.

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Coalition Letter to Dept. of Education: Reject IHRA Definition That Is Causing Severe Anti-Palestinian Racism

Coalition Letter to Dept. of Education: Reject IHRA Definition That Is Causing Severe Anti-Palestinian Racism

On January 16, Palestine Legal, along with 13 other civil rights and legal advocacy organizations, submitted a letter urging the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to reject codifying the distorted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism into agency rules, policies, or decisions. 

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Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Unconstitutional Deactivation

Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Unconstitutional Deactivation

The University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (UF SJP) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida’s order to state universities to deactivate the student group. Contrary to recent media reports, the deactivation order remains in place today.

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Letter to Workplace Leaders: Protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination

Letter to Workplace Leaders: Protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination

Palestine Legal, together with other legal organizations including ADC, CCR, NLG, Law for Black Lives,  the National Lawyers Guild and Project South issued an open letter to workplace leaders urging them to take measures to protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination, and against retaliation for employees' political views. The letter emphasizes the unprecedented wave of workplace discrimination and employment consequences people who are advocating for Palestinian lives are facing.

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Joint Letter to Universities: Protect Essential Student Activism for Palestinian Human Rights

Joint Letter to Universities: Protect Essential Student Activism for Palestinian Human Rights

On November 3, Palestine Legal and ten other legal organizations committed to racial and social justice sent an letter to the leadership of hundreds of college and university campuses nationwide—urging them to safeguard the civil and human rights of all of their students, protect the crucial role of campus debate within our democracy, and reject the repression of political speech and the policing, surveillance, and criminalization of students speaking out against the mass atrocities Palestinians are suffering and for Palestinian safety and human rights.

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