Radhika Sainath in Inside Higher Ed: New Policies Suppress Pro-Palestinian Speech

Radhika Sainath in Inside Higher Ed: New Policies Suppress Pro-Palestinian Speech

The rewriting of policies to restrict protests over Gaza will have dire consequences for campus speech, argues Radhika Sainath, Senior Staff Attorney at Palestine Legal, in an op-ee for Inside Higher Ed.

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UW-Madison Opens Illegal and Discriminatory Student Disciplinary Proceedings Months After Last Spring’s Encampments

UW-Madison Opens Illegal and Discriminatory Student Disciplinary Proceedings Months After Last Spring’s Encampments

Palestine Legal has sent a letter to the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) demanding they terminate a new round of illegal and discriminatory charges brought against students relating to last spring’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment. 

Palestine Legal is representing two students, Dahlia Saba and Vignesh Ramachandran, who are facing disciplinary charges for allegedly “planning and carrying out an encampment on university lands.”

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Palestine Legal and CAIR File Lawsuit Against U. of Maryland for Canceling Palestinian and Jewish Student Groups' Vigil

Palestine Legal and CAIR File Lawsuit Against U. of Maryland for Canceling Palestinian and Jewish Student Groups' Vigil

Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, filed a lawsuit today on behalf of University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine to challenge the university’s decision to cancel the group’s interfaith vigil to honor the lives lost during Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine Legal Condemns Wave of Campus Anti-Protest Policies Intended To Suppress Student Activism

Palestine Legal Condemns Wave of Campus Anti-Protest Policies Intended To Suppress Student Activism

The stakes have gone up this fall for students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Across the U.S., colleges are rolling out new anti-protest policies in an attempt to prevent a repeat of last spring’s historic wave of student activism calling on universities to disclose and divest from financial ties to Israel. 

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Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: Are restrictions on pro-Palestine speech ‘the new McCarthyism?’

Dima Khalidi on Al Jazeera: Are restrictions on pro-Palestine speech ‘the new McCarthyism?’

Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi appeared on Steve Clemons’ Al Jazeera show The Bottom Line alongside UK journalist British journalist Richard Medhurst, about the increasing attacks on pro-Palestine speech and assembly.

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Palestine Legal Statement on NYU’s New, Draconian Student Conduct Policies

Palestine Legal Statement on NYU’s New, Draconian Student Conduct Policies

In a dangerous escalation of repression, New York University announced new student conduct policies last week that appear to prohibit criticism of Zionism. If implemented, these policies risk creating a hostile environment for Palestinian and anti-Zionist Jewish students and severely curtail the free expression of all students.

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Dep't of Ed Launches Investigation into Anti-Palestinian Racism at Pomona College

Dep't of Ed Launches Investigation into Anti-Palestinian Racism at Pomona College

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into discrimination against Palestinian, Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA), and Muslim students at Pomona College.

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