Palestine Legal’s work reminds us every day that we are vulnerable. Our movements for social justice, and the individuals within them, have targets on our backs. Today, we are especially sensitive to the fact that the gains we've made for racial, economic and gender justice, immigrant rights and human rights, are on the line.
Read MoreDonald Trump is not the only textbook legal bully this season. David Horowitz– a driver of anti-Muslim and anti-Black hate – threatened to sue UCLA senior Robert Gardner in response to an op-ed calling the Horowitz Freedom Center “hateful.” Robert wrote his op-ed after Horowitz plastered the campus with posters describing Robert, and other students and faculty, as promoters of terrorism and “Jew Hatred.”
Read MoreOn Monday, Palestine Legal and over 70 civil rights groups wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to demand that the company clarify its policies for content removal when requested by government officials, police, and other government actors.
Read MoreToday the Pennsylvania legislature passed HB 2107, an unconstitutional bill that threatens to penalize forms of political expression protected by the First Amendment.
Last Friday, Palestine Legal Director, Dima Khalidi, spoke at a conference at Bard College, “Real Talk: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex and Religion.” The conference looked at recent controversies on campuses, with speakers presenting opposing viewpoints.
Khalidi was invited to speak to the difficult climate for Palestine activists on campus, while Kenneth Marcus, head of the Brandeis Center and architect of the use of Title VI complaints alleging that Palestine activism creates an antisemitic climate for Jewish students, was invited to discuss antisemitism on campus.
Read MoreToday, Palestine Legal sent a letter to the University of Chicago president, calling on the administration to immediately condemn and investigate the latest poster campaign by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. On Thursday, October 20, a number of defamatory, hateful posters were found around campus targeting students due to their support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreUniversity of California Berkeley (Cal) reinstated a student-led course on Palestine this morning following an outcry over its arbitrary suspension last week. The suspension, taken in apparent response to pressure from Israel advocacy groups, was widely condemned -- by students, professors, and observers -- as a violation of academic freedom, shocking, and unjustifiable.
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