Pro-Israel Students Drop Case Against UMass Amherst Over Palestine Event

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Pro-Israel Students Drop Case Against UMass Amherst Over Palestine Event

Nearly eight months after filing a lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts Amherst, pro-Israel Jewish students dropped claims against the university for hosting an event on Palestine and free speech in May. The lawsuit relied on the same distorted definition of antisemitism included in President Trump’s new anti-Palestinian executive order – one designed to shield Israel from criticism – in attempt to censor the talk.

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Trump's Anti-Palestinian Agenda Comes Home

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Trump's Anti-Palestinian Agenda Comes Home

Today Donald Trump will sign an executive order that directs government agencies, including the Department of Education, to consider a distorted definition of antisemitism designed to censor human rights activists, after failed attempts to pass similar legislation in Congress. 

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Statement on Trump’s Silencing of Palestine Advocacy

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Statement on Trump’s Silencing of Palestine Advocacy

This is a baldfaced attempt to silence the movement for Palestinian rights on college campuses - something that has been at the top of the Trump administration’s agenda. Rather than providing any new protections to Jewish students against the rampant and deadly antisemitism of a resurgent white nationalism, the order described in news reports aims to define the contours of what we can say about Palestine and Israel.

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Rights Groups Urge Court to Uphold Decision Against Texas Anti-Boycott Law

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Rights Groups Urge Court to Uphold Decision Against Texas Anti-Boycott Law

This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a lawsuit seeking to strike down a Texas law that requires government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.

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New Report Details Impact of Secretive American Legislative Exchange Council on Communities of Color

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New Report Details Impact of Secretive American Legislative Exchange Council on Communities of Color

Today, a coalition of human rights organizations released an in-depth report about the role of the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the adoption of state laws that disproportionately harm communities of color. “ALEC Attacks: How evangelicals and corporations captured state lawmaking to safeguard white supremacy and corporate power” traces the establishment of the organization by evangelical conservative activists in the 1970s to counter advances made by the civil rights movement, through to the transformation of ALEC in the early 1990s to be a more stridently pro-corporate lobbying organization.  

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NYC Department of Education: Stop Censoring Pro-Palestine Educator

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NYC Department of Education: Stop Censoring Pro-Palestine Educator

Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) warned the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to end its censorship of educator Jon Cohen’s support for Palestinian rights in two letters this year.

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Towards Collective Liberation

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Towards Collective Liberation

More than 400 years after the first European settlement of Turtle Island, Palestine Legal acknowledges that the territory on which we live is the product of ongoing settler colonialism, racial and religious supremacy. We understand Israel to be the product of these same forces.

Because the injustices our communities face are interrelated, the contemporary attacks on Indigenous activism, Palestinian rights, and on Black and Brown lives cannot be separated. That’s why we’re are proud to support those working towards justice in Palestine, to stand alongside Black and Indigenous advocates fighting for justice on Turtle Island, and to build strategies for legal support across movements.

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