After facing public backlash, George Washington University (GW) has dropped its baseless and discriminatory charges against our client, Arab American student organizer Lance Lokas. GW has also cleared GW Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) of a vast majority of their charges.
Read MoreToday, the President of Columbia, along with other university leaders, testified in Congress. The hearing evidenced the hostile anti-Palestinian environment at Columbia University perpetuated by university leadership and administration.
Read MorePalestine Legal today announced the filing of a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the months-long, hostile anti-Palestinian environment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read MoreOn Friday, April 5, Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) urging an immediate investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill’s systemic pattern of discriminatory treatment against Palestinian students and their allies.
Read MorePalestine Legal and the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Georgia) today announced the filing of a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the hostile environment of anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic discrimination at Emory University.
Read MorePalestine Legal has sent a letter to Vanderbilt University after the administration unilaterally canceled a campuswide vote on a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution set to take place this week.
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal sent a letter to the Ohio State University (OSU) administration urging it to allow students to vote on a ballot initiative that would call on the university to divest from companies complicit in genocide.
In our letter to the university, we warn OSU against disparate treatment toward Palestinian students and put the university on notice to respect students’ civil and constitutional rights.
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