Yesterday, the D.C. Superior Court ended a 9-year harassment campaign against the American Studies Association (ASA) and several of its members over its historic 2013 academic boycott resolution.
Read MoreHere is a media roundup on Palestine Legal’s federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the years-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues unabated at George Washington University (GW).
Read MoreYesterday, Palestine Legal filed a federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the years-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism that continues unabated at George Washington University (GW).
Read MoreSenior staff attorney Liz Jackson was recently interviewed by The Boston Globe in an article exposing the kind of pressure academics who speak out for Palestinian rights face on college campuses. It highlights how the Palestine Exception to free speech affects academic freedom on Palestine, and features powerful Palestinian female professors who have resisted the censorship and bullying.
Read MorePalestine Legal is committed to uplifting important stories reflecting the widespread suppression of Palestine advocacy, and challenges to it, that don’t get national attention, while providing needed context and analysis on the stories that do. As we begin 2023, here’s a look back at our top five stories from 2022.
Read MoreOur staff attorney, Dylan Saba, spoke to the Electronic Intifada, and New York University’s (NYU) independent student newspaper Washington Square News, about our client who is a graduate student worker at NYU put under investigation by the administration for the alleged “vandalism” of an Israeli mail services bag discarded in a recycling bin.
Read MoreLast week, Palestine Legal joined more than 40 civil rights, human rights, and grassroots organizations in calling on the American Bar Association (ABA) to remove reference to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition on Antisemitism in a proposed resolution on antisemitism.
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