The Vassar Student Association (VSA) Executive Board was informed last week that if it were to pass a BDS amendment, the college’s Board of Trustees would “remove” student control of college funds for student activities, amounting to around $900,000.
Read MoreOn Sunday evening, February 21, members of Marquette University’s Students for Justice in Palestine erected a mock Israeli separation wall on campus to kick off Israeli Apartheid Week. The wall featured slogans and pictures that appear on the actual separation wall in Palestine. They had reserved the space and received approval from the University administration for their fliers and publicity. But the next morning, the wall was gone; the University administration had confiscated it.
Read MoreYesterday, University of Minnesota student organizers introduced a resolution in the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) calling on the University to divest from four companies that profit from human rights abuses of Palestinians. If successful, the #UMNDivest campaign, spearheaded by Students for Justice in Palestine, would add University of Minnesota to the growing list of university student bodies that have passed divestment resolutions to support Palestinian freedom and human rights.
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal, Center for Constitutional Rights, CAIR-Florida, and the National Lawyers Guild of South Florida sent a letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott urging him to veto a troubling bill aimed at punishing and suppressing First Amendment-protected boycotts for Palestinian freedom.
Read MorePalestine Legal is deeply concerned by recent calls from the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to investigate and ban Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) from 23 City University of New York (CUNY) campuses.
Read MoreA wave of anti-BDS legislation is sweeping the country. Dozens of bills aimed at suppressing or punishing BDS activism have been introduced in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures – from Arizona to Massachusetts – in the past year. (See here for information on previous anti-BDS legislative initiatives.)
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