Rights Groups Tell Universities Across the U.S. to Stand Up For Students and Faculty Under Attack

Rights Groups Tell Universities Across the U.S. to Stand Up For Students and Faculty Under Attack

Palestine Legal, along with 13 national civil rights and social justice groups, wrote to 280 U.S. universities this week to demand that they take forceful action to protect free speech in response to targeted harassment by right-wing Israel advocacy groups.

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Columbia Dismisses SSI Complaint Against Students for Justice in Palestine

Columbia Dismisses SSI Complaint Against Students for Justice in Palestine

On April 10, 2018, Columbia University dismissed an 11-page complaint filed by Students Supporting Israel alleging that campus speech supporting Palestinian rights violated New York criminal law, civil law and university rules.

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Islamophobe Coerces L.A. Review of Books, Palestine Legal Responds

Islamophobe Coerces L.A. Review of Books, Palestine Legal Responds

On February 3, the Los Angeles Review of Books, a publication known for its intellectual rigor, published a letter by David Horowitz, a right-wing extremist, falsely accusing Students for Justice in Palestine of funding, supporting and being “orchestrated” by a State-Department designated foreign terrorist organization.

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Don’t Believe Politicians Who Say the Israel Anti-Boycott Act Doesn’t Target Political Boycotts

Don’t Believe Politicians Who Say the Israel Anti-Boycott Act Doesn’t Target Political Boycotts

The bill as written would still punish with criminal financial penalties a variety of actions taken to comply with, further, or support boycott calls by international governmental organizations like the UN or the EU.

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100+ Groups to Congress: Stop the Amended Israel Anti-Boycott Act

100+ Groups to Congress: Stop the Amended Israel Anti-Boycott Act

Today, Palestine Legal and over 100 national and state-based organizations urged Congress to reject the unconstitutional Israel Anti-Boycott Act.

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UMN President Says Student Efforts To Advance Human Rights Could Threaten Mid East Peace

UMN President Says Student Efforts To Advance Human Rights Could Threaten Mid East Peace

On the eve of a student election, University of Minnesota (UMN) President Eric W. Kaler declared that a student-organized referendum to advance human rights and socially responsible investment could damage the UMN community’s efforts to promote peace in the Middle East.

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Victory: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Targeting Research, Palestine Advocacy at SF State

Victory: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Targeting Research, Palestine Advocacy at SF State

On Friday, a federal court issued an order dismissing a lawsuit against San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who together with SFSU, was sued over speech activities supporting Palestinian rights in 2017.

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