Today on #LandDay, we uplift Palestinian people demanding return home and full liberation of their homeland. We hold that struggling for Justice in Palestine is part of struggling for justice for all people and the planet. #LANDBACK
We stand with Indigenous Peoples everywhere who face the ongoing impacts of colonialism and imperialism and we uplift all those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend their lands, their homes and their livelihoods and we commit to a liberated future for all of us.
Read the @ndncollective's new position paper on Palestine and learn more about the #LANDBACK movement here.
After retweeting an image of a poster spoofing a historic Palestine tourism ad, @BDSAustria was "SLAPPed" by the city of Vienna with a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. protecttheprotest.org/story/bds-aust…
BDS continues to advocate for Palestinians because so many BDS groups and others have managed to change policies in their own countries and cities for better. Learn more about the case here: elsc.support/cases/m
Facing increasing repression by the government, these activists are fighting for justice in Palestine in an ever-shrinking civic space. Here is their advice on how to keep going: Continue doing the work, build networks, and seek international support.
Although these bills continue to pop up, not a single one of these laws has been upheld on the merits when challenged. palestinelegal.org/news/2022/2/8/…
See what @AbbyMartin, one of the plaintiffs challenging the Georgia anti-boycott law has to say about its impact:
Palestine Legal staff attorney Zoha Khalili was introduced on stage at @jeopardy earlier this week as a "movement lawyer." Wondering what that means? In the words of @Law4BlackLives, it means "building the power of the people, not the power of the law."
As the ADL and other Israel lobby organizations reignite smear attacks on our partner Zahra Billoo, we are reposting our statement from September 2019 to call for safety in solidarity. palestinelegal.org/news/2021/zahr…
"Zahra is on the national stage, but I know her as a community partner, laboring in the daily grind of caring for each other. Zahra zigzags across the Bay Area every day, through traffic congestion, from one community center to another.
She is an essential know your rights educator for people facing persecution simply because they are Arab or Muslim and viewed as dangerous. She is on the mic at huge protests about immigrant rights,
"We have to reject Israel's attempts to make pariahs out of organizations and individuals. ... The best defense is to increase our numbers, to increase our voices, to make it clear that we're not going to let people be dragged under the bus in silence and alone." - Dima Khalidi
"We see our job really as making sure that efforts to make people and groups radioactive don't work, that people aren't isolated, that they have the confidence and the courage to keep going and doing the work ... to reject the goal of intimidation and silencing."
"Part of this is the critical work of connecting our issues. We're not alone here. The repression is not unique. We know that governments throughout history have repressed dissent. We have to learn from those movements historically and ally with those movements here."
BREAKING: We initiated a discrimination complaint against George Washington U. (@GWtweets) for canceling university trauma services for Palestinians this past spring after a pro-Israel group falsely alleged that doing so was anti-Jewish. palestinelegal.org/news/2021/11/1…
The story just broke at @JewishCurrents, which details how GW's Office of Advocacy & Support provided services to Asian, Black, and Jewish students (among other groups), but canceled advertised services for Palestinian students after pressure from admin. jewishcurrents.org/george-washing…
“Palestinians at GW deserve to access the same services as any other student here," said GW employee Nada Elbasha. "To have high-level administrators cancel our support programming was a shocking declaration that GW does not care about its Palestinian students.”