PSLS Director, Dima Khalidi, made the following statement in response to the Ferguson Grand Jury's failure to indict Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
Read MoreNLG released the following statement on Friday, November 21, 2014. PSLS and other organizations urge Judge to reinstate Rasmea Odeh's bond so she can continue her social work pending her sentencing in March.
Read MoreIn the past few years, pro-Israel groups have mounted an escalating and concerted effort to set the contours of scholarly debate about Israel on American campuses. This fall, two such organizations, the AMCHA Initiative and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, are lobbying Congress and the Department of Education to punish Middle East studies centers that present alternatives to staunchly pro-Israel viewpoints.
Read MoreRasmea Odeh’s trial was surreal – and not just because I grew up knowing her and her story and was jarred seeing her in the defendant’s chair. The attorney representing the U.S. government essentially did Israel’s bidding, painting a Palestinian woman who embodies the Palestinian history of dispossession, struggle and resilience as “dangerous and threatening.” And the judge allowed it.
Read MoreThe Institute for Palestine Studies is pleased to present “The Legal Assault on Palestinian Rights Activism”, a panel discussion on November 21st from 12pm to 2.30pm at the SEIU building in Dupont Circle, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC.
Read MoreJoin us and our partners next Tuesday at Defending Rights, a program on the importance of protecting the rights of children detained in military courts, and the rights of U.S. Palestine human rights activists.
Read MoreMONDAY NOV.17th11:30am-1:00pm Rutgers Newark An Attack on Academic Freedom: Silencing Dissent: Hear Prof Steven Salaita Robeson Student Center 3rd fl 350 MLKing Jr. Blvd, Newark Sponsors: Students for Justice in Palestine
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