The complaint, which invokes Donald Trump’s new executive order, argues that allowing SJP to hold events, art installations and other speech activity advocating for Palestinian freedom violates the Civil Rights Act.
Read MoreIn the aftermath of the order, Palestine Legal’s voice and expertise were lifted up throughout the media, including in The Guardian, Haaretz, Newsweek, and Politico. Here’s a roundup of news pieces featuring Palestine Legal.
Read MoreDirector Dima Khalidi published a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times on Trump’s executive order redefining antisemitism to attack criticism of Israel.
Read MoreNearly 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.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThis 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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