On June 21st, Palestine Legal sent the following letter to UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan as a submission for her forthcoming report on Freedom of Expression in Challenging Times. The report will be presented at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2024.
Read MoreOn May 23, Palestinian and Muslim graduating students at Barrington High School held the Palestinian flag upon receiving their diplomas. When students raised their flags, hostile attendees shouted racially motivated comments such as “get him out” and “get the f*** out of here” at the students.
Following this, Principal Stephen McWilliams sent a one-sided email to the Barrington community alleging these actions were “disruptive” with no supported evidence, and made no mention of the hateful comments towards students.
Palestine Legal wrote to the school district last week explaining how their actions violate students’ rights.
Read MoreIn recent weeks, as encampments and other protests on campuses have gained national attention and a seven-month-long US-backed genocide continues unabated in Palestine, anti-Palestinian lawmakers, groups, and institutional actors have intensified their racist and repressive targeting of the Palestine solidarity movement in the US from multiple angles. This is a desperate effort to criminalize and shut down a growing movement calling for Palestinian freedom.
Read MoreToday Palestine Legal published a new report on the post-Oct 7th crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the US. The report is Palestine Legal’s first total accounting and analysis of the reports of repression the organization received between Oct 7th and Dec 31, 2023, with the high volume of reports continuing into 2024.
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia University’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear — for the first time in decades — to arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide last week.
Read MoreOn April 16th, 2024, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has opened a formal investigation into Palestine Legal’s complaint against the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst alleging a hostile anti-Palestinian environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Read MoreAfter 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.
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