Joint Letter to Universities: Protect Essential Student Activism for Palestinian Human Rights

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Joint Letter to Universities: Protect Essential Student Activism for Palestinian Human Rights

On November 3, Palestine Legal and ten other legal organizations committed to racial and social justice sent an letter to the leadership of hundreds of college and university campuses nationwide—urging them to safeguard the civil and human rights of all of their students, protect the crucial role of campus debate within our democracy, and reject the repression of political speech and the policing, surveillance, and criminalization of students speaking out against the mass atrocities Palestinians are suffering and for Palestinian safety and human rights.

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Radhika Sainath in Boston Review: The Free Speech Exception

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Radhika Sainath in Boston Review: The Free Speech Exception

Senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath penned an excellent op-ed in the Boston Review on how the climate of censorship, suppression, and intimidation aimed at supporters of Palestinian rights that we are witnessing resembles the aftermath of 9/11.

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Dylan Saba in n+1: A Surge in Suppression

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Dylan Saba in n+1: A Surge in Suppression

Palestine Legal staff attorney Dylan Saba published an important Op-Ed in n+1 on the wave of retaliation and censorship of political expression in solidarity with Palestinians that we’ve witnessed over the past month.

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Legal Organizations Put Members of Congress on Notice of Complicity in Genocide

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Legal Organizations Put Members of Congress on Notice of Complicity in Genocide

In our letter to all congressional members, we, along with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild put members of Congress on notice for complicity in genocide. The letter informed congressmembers of potential legal liability for aiding, abetting, inciting, or conspiring to commit genocide through congressional acts, and demanded that they act.

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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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