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As heart wrenching as it is to witness the attacks on Palestinians this week, it hurts even more as U.S. taxpayers to know our own complicity in the Israeli government's brutality. Join us in demanding change secure.everyaction.com/1bUDFJrq_kWz5s…
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Palestinians from Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah are rising up against decades of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. As Israel violently attacks Palestinians for resisting 73 years of oppression, the cruelty of its settler-colonial regime is on full display. Image
The U.S. government spends $3.8 billion a year on military funding for Israel, allowing it to uphold its oppressive and racist military occupation of Palestine. We should have a say in how our tax dollars are used. Let's demand better. Image
END U.S. MILITARY FUNDING TO ISRAEL Image
Hold Israel accountable. Demand that Congress support sanctions on Israel until it complies with international law and puts an end to its apartheid regime. Image
Uplift Palestinian calls for freedom. Demand that Congress center those most harmed by violence and oppression—the Palestinian people— and support their right to resist Israel's ethnic cleansing. Answer their demands for freedom, justice, and safety. Image

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More from @pal_legal

Aug 29
THREAD: In a dangerous escalation of repression, New York University (@nyuniversity) announced new student conduct policies last week that appear to prohibit criticism of Zionism. Here’s what you need to know.
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.
The policy directly conflates Zionism and Judaism by stating that the former is a “code word” for the latter. It goes on to treat Zionism as a protected class on its own—a status afforded to no other political ideology. ​​nyu.edu/students/stude…
Read 8 tweets
May 23
Today, the heads of UCLA, Rutgers and Northwestern testified in yet another McCarthyite congressional hearing over the Gaza Solidarity encampments and the speech activity of students and faculty advocating for Palestinian rights on campus (🧵)
These McCarthyist witch-hunts in the form of congressional hearings have justified state and institutional repression targeting students and faculty for protesting an ongoing genocide that has killed over 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Together with a tsunami of other attacks on Palestine advocacy groups, these hearings are one piece of large-scale witch-hunts and fishing expeditions by right-wing electeds and Zionist groups to crack down on a justice movement.
Read 14 tweets
May 2
🚨 BREAKING: Today @EDcivilrights announced @Columbia is under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian racism, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear to arrest Palestinian and associated students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🧵
Palestine Legal is representing four students and the student group @ColumbiaSJP, who have all been the target of anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment by fellow students, professors, and/or Columbia administrators.
This comes less than 48 hours after Columbia President Shafik called in the NYPD, which violently arrested and brutalized dozens of student protestors, some with guns drawn, using sledgehammers, batons, and flash-bang explosives. theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc…
Read 8 tweets
Jan 23
ALERT: We’ve received several reports of the FBI visiting activists in response to their social media posts criticizing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We want you to #KnowYourRights if approached by federal law enforcement (🧵 thread)
The FBI’s discriminatory targeting of people who speak up for Palestinian rights on social media is an attempt to silence popular criticism of Israel. You have a right to speak up against genocide. You have a right to refuse to speak to FBI agents without an attorney present.
Our partners at the @ADC have also documented a disturbing uptick FBI targeting and intimidation of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims since October:
Read 6 tweets
Jan 20
🚨 A Palestinian American student writes "free Palestine" messages across the UIC campus and is stalked by a @thisisUIC employee, who called police to handcuff and arrest in her classroom. Watch the explosive story here: cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u…
She was held in a cell for hours while the university tried to charge her with a felony, which the Cook County attorney rejected before ultimately dismissing criminal charges.
"She didn't break a window ... She didn't burn anything, and for them to put a felony charge, knowing that this could destroy her life? Like a felony is always on your record. This could destroy this young woman's life. But they didn't care," explained @ArabAmCC's Nesreen Hasan.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 8
🧵THREAD: The federal government has launched a long-overdue investigation into anti-Palestinian racism at @thisisUIC. As an institution that prides itself on diversity, UIC should be ashamed of its treatment of Palestinians and their allies.
For years, @SJPUIC has called on @uicpublichealth to end its partnership with @JUFChicago, an organization with a documented history of funding anti-Muslim hate groups. jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/upl…
In March 2021 during the height of the pandemic, @uicpublichealth, as part of its @JUFChicago funded Visiting Scholar in Israeli Studies Program, hosted a talk titled “Description of the Healthcare System in Israel: Implications for COVID Response.”
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