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D.C. Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Israeli Boycott

Court dismisses claims arising from 2013 Boycott Resolution as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public…

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Victory! ABA removes controversial definition of antisemitism

Proposed resolution targeted Palestinian rights advocacy In January, we sent letters urging the American Bar…

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Harvard Reverses Course on Advocate Who Criticized Israel

Blocking the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor…

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U.S. Palestinian Rights Group in Federal Appeals Court

Confronts Challenge to Human Rights Advocacy Last week a U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization asked the…

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Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights

Palestine Legal, Jan 18, 2023

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Department of Education to investigate Berkeley Law School

MICHAEL ARRIA, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 16, 2022

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2022.12.14: The Right to Boycott: Resisting the Crackdown on BDS

Join CODEPINK and Meera Shah of Palestine Legal on Zoom December 14th at 2pm ET/11am…

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An open letter to UW-Madison regarding anti-Zionist chalking

Stepha Velednitsky, Ri J. Turner, Joshua Garoon, Tsela Barr, and Annie Sommer Kaufman, The Daily Cardinal,…

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The Case Against ALEC Lawmakers Continues in Arizona Supreme Court

On November 15, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA), Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro,…

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Rising up against Israel’s repression

Today across Palestine, we’re witnessing the Palestinian people rise up united once again. It is…

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Anti-Palestinianism makes the misuse of antisemitism possible

MONA ABUAMARA, MONDOWEISS, AUGUST 20, 2022

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2022.10.05-09: Acclaimed Film Boycott free online

An online film salon for the acclaimed film: BOYCOTT Sunday, 9 October 2022 1pm PT, 2pm…

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President Biden: Stop Israeli Government’s Attacks on Palestinian Civil Society

(Final version, emphasis added) Dear colleagues and comrades, Thank you so much for signing on…

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Rally for Google and Amazon workers against Israeli military

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Next Thursday, September 8th at 5pm at the Seattle Google campus (1000 Mercer…

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Google’s anti-Palestinian worker retaliation

Huge news just broke. Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active in our #NoTechForApartheid campaign,…

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Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way?

In a terrible irony, the campaign against “anti-semitism” has become a threat to freedom Peter…

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President Biden: Stop Israeli Government’s Attacks on Palestinian Civil Society

The Honorable Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20500 Dear…

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Mark Pocan: US should condemn this action

I’m with the nine countries in the EU on this. The US should condemn this…

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Palestinian Rights Organizations Raided & Shut Down

American Friends Service Committee, August 18, 2022 Stand with Palestinian human rights defenders Early this…

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Democracies don’t raid human rights offices

Democracies don’t raid human rights offices in the middle of the night. pic.twitter.com/kJZSVCl1Tx — IfNotNow🔥…

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