The City University of New York, Brooklyn College announced that it was suspending its unconstitutional security fee policy in an email to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) last week. In February 2014, Brooklyn College implemented a new security fee policy that allowed the college to assess security costs for after-hours student club events.
Read MoreThe U.S. Attorney filed an extraordinary motion this week in the controversial prosecution of Rasmea Odeh, seeking an order to empanel an anonymous jury and sequester jurors from protests occurring outside the Detroit courthouse so that they are not improperly swayed by Odeh's supporters.
Read MorePSLS is co-sponsoring Steven Salaita's tour of Chicago campuses as he speaks out about the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's actions to terminate him for his tweets about Gaza just weeks before he was set to start his tenured position.
Read MoreStudents for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Loyola University – Chicago today released a statement about the university’s lifting of a temporary suspension on their group and an ongoing investigation against individual students after they attempted to register at a Birthright Israel table on September 9.
Read MorePSLS Director, Dima Khalidi, reflects on the establishment of Palestine Legal and the pervasiveness of the problem that brought it about in this interview on Jadaliyya.
Read MoreAre you planning a mock eviction action to raise awareness on Israel's policy of demolishing Palestinian homes? Pro-Israel students, groups and alumni donors can’t deny Israel’s record of human rights abuses, so they’re increasingly resorting to behind-the-scenes pressure as well as open campaigns calling on universities to punish speech supporting Palestinian rights.
Read MoreAgain, Department of Education Dismisses Baseless Title VI Charges, Reaffirming Criticism of Israel is Protected Speech. In an affirmation of free speech principles, the Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has dismissed a complaint brought by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) in 2011 alleging that Rutgers University tolerated a hostile climate for Jewish students.
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