2015 Year-in-Review: Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Continues

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2015 Year-in-Review: Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Continues

Palestine Legal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights of people in the U.S. who speak out for Palestinian freedom, responded to 240 incidents in 2015. Eighty percent of the incidents—which included baseless legal complaints, administrative disciplinary actions, bureaucratic barriers, and false accusations of terrorism and antisemitism—targeted students and scholars across the country. Palestine Legal received an additional 64 requests for legal assistance in anticipation of such incidents.

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

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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”?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Palestinian American Detained Near Border for Sketching and Writing

On December 2, Palestinian-American artist and author of the graphic novel Baddawi, Leila 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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