Following Mike Pompeo’s announcement that Trump’s State Department intends to defund and label as "antisemitic" groups that support boycotts for Palestinian freedom, director Dima Khalidi spoke to Al Jazeera English on the larger context of attacks on Palestine advocacy.
Palestine Legal launched a new website tracking legislative efforts to silence the movement for Palestinian freedom in the U.S. Geared towards activists, researchers, journalists, and policymakers alike, the site aims to document one part of a widespread attack on the Palestine solidarity movement in the U.S., and to support efforts to push back against these threats.
Read MorePalestine Legal staff have organized and participated in a number of webinars this year on topics from FBI spying and frivolous legal complaints against Palestine advocates to the Right to Boycott and Black liberation. Watch and read videos and articles from the events.
Read MoreThe Intercept published a comprehensive report on Zoom’s censorship of academic events on Palestine at San Francisco State University, NYU and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, quoting Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi.
Read MoreCalifornia has demoted Arab American studies to second-class status in its ethnic studies curriculum after backlash from Israel advocacy groups over the inclusion of narratives around Palestine and boycotts for Palestinian freedom.
Read MoreIn the latest manifestation of a Trump-backed campaign to redefine antisemitism, the U.S. State Department reportedly plans to designate three prominent human rights groups as antisemitic due to their criticism of Israel’s violations of international law.
According to news sources, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could soon release a report that would label Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam International as antisemitic groups, bar federal funding to the organizations and encourage foreign governments to do the same.
Read MoreExactly a month after censoring a Palestine webinar at San Francisco State, Zoom has censored two other campus Palestine events—this time at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa (UHM) and at New York University (NYU).
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