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.
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.
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Hold Israel accountable. Demand that Congress support sanctions on Israel until it complies with international law and puts an end to its apartheid regime.
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.
In Harvard's lawsuit trying to restore $3 billion in federal funding cut by the Trump administration, Palestine Legal is contesting both Trump's unlawful demands of Harvard, as well as Harvard’s discrimination against Palestinian students and their allies.
We filed a "friend of the court" brief representing our client, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), which Harvard has suspended and sanctioned.
The Trump administration cut Harvard's federal funding based on the false pretense that the university fostered a "hostile environment of antisemitism" by allowing students to speak out against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
THREAD: Today, the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing to call for investigations into the First Amendment protected activities of university students who courageously organized for over 15 months to bring an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Today's Senate hearing relies on the false conflation of support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism. This conflation allows for anti-Palestinian and anti-democratic actors to pretend to care about Jewish safety, while they really silence advocates for Palestinian freedom.
After Trump's executive order targeting college student advocates for Palestinian rights, this hearing is another step towards implementing the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, a blueprint for destroying progressive movements beginning with the Palestinian rights movement.
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…
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.
🚨 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…
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: