Butler University canceled an April 1 talk with Dr. Angela Davis without warning or discussion just three days before the event. Students, faculty and community members are demanding that Butler apologize to Davis and reinstate the event, titled "Joint Struggle and Collective Liberation."
Read MorePalestine Legal submitted the following submission last fall regarding the use of the anonymous blacklisting site Canary Mission against Arabs and Muslims to the United Nations Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
Read MorePalestine Legal and our resources were featured in three articles on a new definition of antisemitism introduced as a moderate alternative to the widely criticized International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), was released last week by 200 Jewish studies and other scholars, attempting to address the harms caused by the IHRA working definition, which conflated Palestine advocacy with anti-Jewish discrimination..
Read MorePalestine Legal launched a new, interactive resource visualizing two decades of efforts by Israel advocates to establish a politicized redefinition of antisemitism designed to silence advocacy for Palestinian freedom.
Read MorePalestine Legal, our clients and partners were featured in a number of articles about our victory against an attorney with ties to the Israeli government who attempted to force UCLA to reveal the list of speakers at the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference in 2018. On March 11, a judge in California ruled that disclosure would violate the presenters’ rights to freedom of association, speech and privacy.
Read MoreRejecting demands for the names of speakers at a private National Students for Justice in Palestine conference, a judge in California ruled today that disclosure would violate the presenters’ rights to freedom of association, speech and privacy.
Read MorePalestine Legal has released a new report analyzing trends in the censorship of the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights in 2020, in the context of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Palestine advocacy and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Palestine Legal responded to 213 incidents of suppression of U.S.-based Palestine advocacy over the course of 2020, totaling 1,707 suppression incidents between 2014 and 2020.
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