Media Roundup: Palestine Legal and ACLU file lawsuit challenging DeSantis' deactivation order against SJPs

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Media Roundup: Palestine Legal and ACLU file lawsuit challenging DeSantis' deactivation order against SJPs

On November 16th, the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (UF SJP) filed a lawsuit challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida’s order to state universities to deactivate the student group. The lawsuit aims to protect UF students’ First Amendment right to free speech. UF SJP is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal.

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Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Unconstitutional Deactivation

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Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Unconstitutional Deactivation

The University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (UF SJP) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Chancellor of the State University System of Florida’s order to state universities to deactivate the student group. Contrary to recent media reports, the deactivation order remains in place today.

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Letter to Workplace Leaders: Protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination

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Letter to Workplace Leaders: Protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination

Palestine Legal, together with other legal organizations including ADC, CCR, NLG, Law for Black Lives,  the National Lawyers Guild and Project South issued an open letter to workplace leaders urging them to take measures to protect against anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discrimination, and against retaliation for employees' political views. The letter emphasizes the unprecedented wave of workplace discrimination and employment consequences people who are advocating for Palestinian lives are facing.

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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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