Statement by Two Palestinian Students Who Have Faced Severe University Retaliation for Protesting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

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Statement by Two Palestinian Students Who Have Faced Severe University Retaliation for Protesting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Palestine Legal is sharing two powerful statements from student clients who have faced severe university retaliation for speaking out in support of Palestinian freedom in the past year. 

These statements were previously commissioned by a news outlet, but the editors chose not to include them, following a decades-long pattern of mainstream outlets favoring pro-Israel viewpoints over Palestinian voices. 

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Civil Rights Orgs Call on Brown to Reject Politicized Threats and Approve Divestment

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Civil Rights Orgs Call on Brown to Reject Politicized Threats and Approve Divestment

Eight legal and civil rights organizations, including Palestine Legal, have sent a letter to Brown University urging Brown to vote in favor of the Brown Divest proposal, which calls for the university to divest from a list of companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine.

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Federal Court Grants University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine’s Preliminary Junction

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Federal Court Grants University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine’s Preliminary Junction

Today, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland granted the University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine’s (UMD SJP) request for a preliminary injunction to allow the group to host an interfaith vigil on October 7, 2024.

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UChicago Students File Civil Rights Complaint After Disciplinary Charges, Arrests, and UCPD Surveillance

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UChicago Students File Civil Rights Complaint After Disciplinary Charges, Arrests, and UCPD Surveillance

Palestine Legal today announced the filing of a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) demanding an immediate investigation into the nearly year-long, hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism at the University of Chicago, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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

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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

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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

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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 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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