The New York Civil Liberties Union and Palestine Legal filed a lawsuit today against Columbia University for the unlawful suspension of its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) for engaging in peaceful protest.
Read MorePalestine Legal is sharing a statement from our client, Lance Lokas, an Arab American student organizer at George Washington University (GW) who has been repeatedly targeted by the university administration. On Friday, February 23rd, he was once again dragged before a disciplinary hearing, merely for participating in an on-campus event. Lance has already been placed on disciplinary probation and has been removed from leadership of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at GW in a blatant attempt to silence and discipline his speech and advocacy for Palestinian rights on campus. Now, GW SJP faces disbandment and Lance faces possible expulsion from the university.
Read MoreOpposition to Palestinian rights has shaped U.S. federal anti-terrorism law from its beginnings, according to a briefing paper released today. Dating back to the 1960s, the government has used anti-terrorism law to target the Palestinian movement and supporters and to stigmatize Palestinians as terrorists, the paper says.
Read MoreAs the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza has reached unfathomable proportions, so has the war of repression here: since Oct. 7th we’ve received an unprecedented 1300+ reports from people targeted for Palestine advocacy across cities and industries—but it’s not stopping the upsurge in solidarity.
Here is a media round-up of 10 key articles written by staff and reporters highlighting the wave of anti-Palestinian repression and the resistance to it in both mainstream and progressive outlets such as: Democracy Now!, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, and others.
Read MorePalestine Legal joins eleven other community and civil rights organizations to demand that the University of California, San Francisco, end its discriminatory campaign of intimidating and silencing students, faculty, staff, and other members of the UCSF community who have spoken out against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians.
Read MoreThe U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida today denied the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine’s request for a preliminary injunction, finding that Florida officials do not intend to deactivate the Florida chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). UF SJP is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal.
Read MorePalestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Georgia, along with eight other community and civil rights, sent a letter to Emory University on behalf of Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab students at Emory who have been the target of anti-Palestinian, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and racist harassment.
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