The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed an amicus 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 engage in boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns for Palestinian rights.
Read MoreToday’s decision is an attack on our right to dissent from the status quo. In upholding Arkansas’ anti-BDS law, the court refused to confront the reality that these laws are part of an effort to shield Israel from accountability.
Read MoreAfter administrators tried to block their interfaith event on Palestine earlier this year, students at a private school in Ohio turned to their community—and to Palestine Legal—for help in getting their voices heard.
Read MorePalestine Legal staff are participating in a number of events this spring on topics ranging from academic freedom and free speech to a Know Your Rights workshop geared towards student activists. Stay tuned to this page for updates.
Read MorePalestine Legal is supporting NYU law students active with Law Student for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) as they face an investigation based on frivolous complaints falsely alleging antisemitism following a public email exchange with members of Law Students for Israel.
Read MoreAfter a month of delays and a false push by fellow students to invoke a distorted definition of antisemitism to block their event, the Palestine Cultural Club and Students for Justice in Palestine at Arizona State University successfully hosted a talk by popular Palestinian poet and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd on April 10.
Read MoreA public university in upstate New York violated the constitutional rights of one of its faculty by removing a professor’s bulletin board poster criticizing the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinian children. The university subsequently made a new rule limiting faculty from posting social or political content to their bulletin boards, also in contravention of the federal and NY State constitutions.
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