Liz Jackson: BDS campaign against Israeli policies is not anti-Semitic

Liz Jackson: BDS campaign against Israeli policies is not anti-Semitic

Across California, students are increasingly supporting Palestinian human rights through boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) campaigns that promote Palestinian freedom and equality. The movement, similar to the United Farm Workers' nonviolent grape boycott, is designed to create political and economic pressure on Israel to comply with international human rights.

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University of California: Where are the female (or Black, LGBTQ, Latino, Arab, Muslim, etc.) “experts on intolerance”?

University of California: Where are the female (or Black, LGBTQ, Latino, Arab, Muslim, etc.) “experts on intolerance”?

Palestine Legal joins a chorus of California organizations to express our dismay at the all-male panel of experts on “intolerance” that the UC Regents has consulted in efforts to improve the campus climate for vulnerable communities. 

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Palestine Legal, NLG call on Loyola to Repeal Demo Policy, Apologize to SJP

Palestine Legal, NLG call on Loyola to Repeal Demo Policy, Apologize to SJP

Yesterday, Palestine Legal and the NLG-Chicago sent a letter to Loyola University Chicago (LUC) demanding that LUC protect student speech and dissent by fully repealing burdensome demonstration policies that the university has temporarily suspended, including a requirement that students register all demonstrations with the administration three days in advance

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Palestine Legal's 2015 Social Media Highlights

Palestine Legal's 2015 Social Media Highlights

Whew! It’s been quite a year. As we prepare to enter 2016, we took a minute to reflect on our work in 2015. We thought we’d share some of our social media highlights, and we hope you'll join us on Facebook and Twitter:

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StandWithUs Pushes for Full Prosecution of Peaceful Protesters and Lawyer

StandWithUs Pushes for Full Prosecution of Peaceful Protesters and Lawyer

On November 3, Minneapolis activists protested a University of Minnesota Law School event featuring Moshe Halbertal, co-author of the Israel Defense Force’s Code of Ethics.   

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Palestinian American Detained Near Border for Sketching and Writing

Palestinian American Detained Near Border for Sketching and Writing

On December 2, Palestinian-American artist and author of the graphic novel BaddawiLeila Abdelrazaq, and two friends were detained and interrogated near the Mexico border because Ms. Abdelrazaq's notebook sketches and Arabic writing apparently raised red flags.

 

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UAW International Nullifies Democratic Vote of Graduate Student-Workers for Boycott and Divestment

UAW International Nullifies Democratic Vote of Graduate Student-Workers for Boycott and Divestment

Last December, the labor union representing over 14,000 graduate student workers at the University of California (UC) – UAW Local 2865 – voted by a clear majority to demand that their union and their employer, the UC, divest from companies complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.  

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