DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

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DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida

On Tuesday, October 24, the chancellor of the State University System of Florida, Ray Rodrigues, released a memorandum directing public universities in Florida to “deactivate” chapters of National Students for Justice in Palestine on their campuses. The memo is filled with erroneous factual and legal claims that seek to distract from, distort and silence the message of student activists across the United States the same way Israeli propaganda has sought to distract public attention from ongoing Israeli war crimes.

This is a blatant attack on students’ First Amendment rights, and it will be challenged in court.

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Anti-Palestinian Deborah Project Files Baseless Ethics Complaint Against Arab-American School Board Member and Law Professor

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Anti-Palestinian Deborah Project Files Baseless Ethics Complaint Against Arab-American School Board Member and Law Professor

Professor Sahar Aziz, the first Arab and Muslim American female member of the Westfield Board of Education and Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, is the latest target of baseless accusations attacking her speech in support of Palestinian rights.

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SUCCESS: NYU Withdraws False Accusations Against Pro-Palestine Graduate Student Worker; Rehires Idriss to Library with Back Pay

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SUCCESS: NYU Withdraws False Accusations Against Pro-Palestine Graduate Student Worker; Rehires Idriss to Library with Back Pay

After facing public backlash, NYU’s Office of Student Conduct has dropped its false discrimination charge against graduate student worker Naye Idriss, who was accused in November 2022 of antisemitism after she wrote “Fuck” over the word ‘Israel,’ and “Free Palestine” on an Israeli mail bag that had been discarded in the recycling at Bobst Library, where she worked in the mailroom. 

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Media Roundup: NYU student punished for writing on discarded Israeli mail bag

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Media Roundup: NYU student punished for writing on discarded Israeli mail bag

Our staff attorney, Dylan Saba, spoke to the Electronic Intifada, and New York University’s (NYU) independent student newspaper Washington Square News, about our client who is a graduate student worker at NYU put under investigation by the administration for the alleged “vandalism” of an Israeli mail services bag discarded in a recycling bin.

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Palestine Legal Urges NYU to Stop Politically-Motivated Investigation of Law Students 

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Palestine Legal Urges NYU to Stop Politically-Motivated Investigation of Law Students 

Palestine Legal is supporting NYU law students active with Law Student for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) as they face an investigation based on frivolous complaints falsely alleging antisemitism following a public email exchange with members of Law Students for Israel.

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ASU Students Overcome IHRA Roadblock to Mohammed El-Kurd Event

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ASU Students Overcome IHRA Roadblock to Mohammed El-Kurd Event

After a month of delays and a false push by fellow students to invoke a distorted definition of antisemitism to block their event, the Palestine Cultural Club and Students for Justice in Palestine at Arizona State University successfully hosted a talk by popular Palestinian poet and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd on April 10.

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SUNY Binghamton Wrongly Says Professors Can’t Condemn Israel’s Killing of Palestinian Children

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SUNY Binghamton Wrongly Says Professors Can’t Condemn Israel’s Killing of Palestinian Children

A public university in upstate New York violated the constitutional rights of one of its faculty by removing a professor’s bulletin board poster criticizing the Israeli army’s killing of Palestinian children. The university subsequently made a new rule limiting faculty from posting social or political content to their bulletin boards, also in contravention of the federal and NY State constitutions.

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