Palestine Legal warned Google against unlawful worker retaliation as thousands of Google and Amazon employees called on their employers to end contracts with the Israeli government, including the billion-dollar Project Nimbus.
Read MorePalestine Legal staff are participating in a number of events this winter on topics ranging from attacks on Palestine advocates in the U.S. to free speech and the right to boycott. Stay tuned to this page for updates throughout the next two months.
Read MorePalestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront to discuss the ways false accusations of antisemitism are being used to silence support for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreThis week, Palestine Legal published our 2021 Year-in-Review documenting trends in backlash facing the movement for Palestinian rights in the U.S. and the movement’s resilience against them. As people rose up in solidarity with Palestinians, Palestine Legal witnessed an intensification of repression strategies by Israel and its allies in the United States as they attempted to thwart a shift in public opinion in favor of Palestinian rights.
Read MoreA coalition of civil rights and human rights groups urged Virginia lawmakers to oppose a new anti-boycott bill targeting advocacy for Palestinian rights. Palestine Legal sent a letter to state lawmakers on February 7 joined by eight organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. If enacted, H.B. 1161 would unconstitutionally infringe on Virginians’ core political speech, in violation of the First Amendment.
Read MorePalestine Legal joined 60 global NGOs in calling on the Dutch government to reverse their decision to end funding to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Palestine and to reject Israel’s politically motivated designations of Palestinian civil society organizations as “terrorists.”
Read MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s civil rights complaint against George Washington University and student protests against GW’s discriminatory treatment against Palestinians. Our complaint challenges GW's selective and discriminatory cancelation of trauma support services for Palestinian students.
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