The Guardian on Backlash to Growing Campus Palestine Activism
/Michael Ratner Justice Fellow Amira Mattar was featured in a Guardian article addressing the backlash to the growing campus movement for Palestinian liberation.
Read MoreMedia Roundup: Florida State's Anti-Palestinian Racism Against Ahmad Daraldik
/In April, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights demanding an immediate investigation into a hostile environment of anti-Palestinian racism at Florida State University. Ahmad’s story was featured in 972 Magazine, Inside Higher Education, Mondoweiss, and in an op-ed from Ahmad himself in The Nation.
Read MoreDima Khalidi's Op-Ed on Palestinian Youth Rising Up
/Director Dima Khalidi published a powerful op-ed in Truthout on the role of Palestinian youth leading the movement to end Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
Read MoreThe Intercept on FB's Secret Rules on Posts About "Zionists"
/The Intercept published a breaking story about guidelines Facebook has been employing since 2019 to moderate posts about “Zionists” as hate speech. Dima Khalidi was quoted in the piece, criticizing the policy.
Read MorePalestine Legal In The News on Redefining Antisemitism
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Palestine Legal and our resources were featured in three articles on a new definition of antisemitism introduced as a moderate alternative to the widely criticized International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition. The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), was released last week by 200 Jewish studies and other scholars, attempting to address the harms caused by the IHRA working definition, which conflated Palestine advocacy with anti-Jewish discrimination..
Read MoreUCLA Doxing Case In The News
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Palestine Legal, our clients and partners were featured in a number of articles about our victory against an attorney with ties to the Israeli government who attempted to force UCLA to reveal the list of speakers at the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference in 2018. On March 11, a judge in California ruled that disclosure would violate the presenters’ rights to freedom of association, speech and privacy.
Read MoreDima Khalidi's Op-Ed on the Biden Transition and Palestine Advocacy
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Director Dima Khalidi published an op-ed in In These Times about the need for the Biden administration to rescind policies from Trump and his predecessors against Palestine advocacy.
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