Our Letter to the Dept. of Education: Address Rise of Anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic Racism

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Our Letter to the Dept. of Education: Address Rise of Anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic Racism

On October 31st, Palestine Legal, the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the Center for Constitutional Rights have submitted a letter urging the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to take urgent special measures, including providing guidance to universities and schools, to ensure the protection of the fundamental rights of people calling for Palestinian freedom. 

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Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: The double standards of free speech on Palestine

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Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: The double standards of free speech on Palestine

Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Marc Lamont Hill’s Al Jazeera show UpFront alongside Ilan Pappe, renowned author and professor of history at Exeter University, about the limits to free speech on the Israel-Gaza war.

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Dima Khalidi on Democracy Now! with NYU law student Ryna Workman

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Dima Khalidi on Democracy Now! with NYU law student Ryna Workman

Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi joined Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! for a live interview this morning alongside our brilliant client, NYU law student Ryna Workman. Ryna was removed as president of the school’s Student Bar Association and lost a job offer from corporate law firm Winston & Strawn after they wrote a newsletter expressing solidarity with Palestinians.

This has not stopped Ryna from speaking out, and using their platform to call for a ceasefire and an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza.

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DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

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DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

On Tuesday, October 24, the chancellor of the State University System of Florida, Ray Rodrigues, released a memorandum directing public universities in Florida to “deactivate” chapters of National Students for Justice in Palestine on their campuses. The memo is filled with erroneous factual and legal claims that seek to distract from, distort and silence the message of student activists across the United States the same way Israeli propaganda has sought to distract public attention from ongoing Israeli war crimes.

This is a blatant attack on students’ First Amendment rights, and it will be challenged in court.

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Hundreds of Legal Community Members Demand Action To Stop Racist and Unlawful Targeting of Palestine Advocates

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Hundreds of Legal Community Members Demand Action To Stop Racist and Unlawful Targeting of Palestine Advocates

Palestine Legal and over 600 legal organizations and professionals, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, released a new letter urging elected officials and institutional leaders to take urgent measures to address the surging racist attacks and unlawful retaliation against advocates for Palestinian rights. 

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Legal Resources for Activists Advocating for Palestine Across the U.S.

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Legal Resources for Activists Advocating for Palestine Across the U.S.

Palestine Legal has received an unprecedented surge in requests for legal support over the past week. Activists and community members have been doxxed, threatened, investigated, censored, questioned, fired, and even assaulted simply because of their views, while government officials appear to be mobilizing law enforcement resources against them for their speech activities.

While we work to respond to these requests, here are resources to prepare for and resist backlash against your activism, including contact information for other organizations responding to this unprecedented backlash.

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Palestine Legal Stands Firmly with the Palestine Movement, Condemns Rising Anti-Palestinian Attacks

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Palestine Legal Stands Firmly with the Palestine Movement, Condemns Rising Anti-Palestinian Attacks

Palestine Legal expresses our firm and unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination and freedom. The events of the last few days broke the barriers – physical and psychological – of Israel’s inhumane 16-year long siege of over two million Palestinians in Gaza, of 75-years of dispossession, exile and apartheid, of Israel’s invincibility and Palestinian invisibility. 

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