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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

Despite their efforts to get schools to condemn the speaking events, they went ahead as scheduled, and were successful and well attended.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

And also at UPenn.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

And at Georgetown University.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

At UC Davis, relying on anti-Palestinian racism to conflate criticism of Israel's oppression of Palestinians with antisemitism.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

Brandeis threatens anyone who dares speak out against Israel's human rights abuses -- and they lose, again and again. Case in point, when they tried to smear Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd and shut down his speaking events on multiple campuses:

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 15h

The Brandeis Center’s letter threatening Film Workers For Palestine with legal action for boycotting Israeli film institutions is a desperate attempt to silence cultural workers standing on the right side of history. But this isn't the only example: (thread)

In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Arresting, Attempting to Deport Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 7d

Read more about the landmark opinion here:

knightcolumbia.org

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 7d

What it means for campus protests: It strengthens the argument that speech-based retaliation, tied to immigration status, is subject to constitutional limits. It’s not final yet (the govt may appeal), but a significant barrier to using deportation threats to suppress speech.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 7d

What the court found: Senior officials (including in the State and Homeland Security Departments) acted in a way that improperly chilled speech by linking protest activity to visa revocations.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 7d

VICTORY: A federal court ruled yesterday that the Trump administration’s policy of targeting noncitizen students and faculty for deportation based on their political speech in support of Palestinian rights—particularly protest activity—violates constitutional protections.

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 22d

Rather than taking a stand as the birthplace of the free speech movement, this act of cowardice has endangered many in the Berkeley community. Palestine Legal is providing support to those affected, and to the community organizing against this harmful decision.

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 22d

Prof. Butler rightly calls out this capitulation to the federal government, using antisemitism as pretense to try and crush dissent on campuses.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23d

Philosopher Judith Butler is among the 160 names UC Berkeley shared with the Trump administration to comply with its investigation into alleged campus antisemitism. Butler, who is Jewish, says the real goal is to silence pro-Palestine voices.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/judith_butler

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 22d

UC Berkeley has capitulated to to the "bullying and extortion" of the Trump administration by sharing the names of about 160 students, faculty members, and staff members who have a “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism.”

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com

Stop AB 715 | AROC Action

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 28d

This is key to lawfare repression: even when a complaint has zero merit, the legal process itself is the punishment. Take action with @arocaction.bsky.social by sending an email to your California State Senator and assembly member in opposition to AB715 now.

Take action against AB 715 by sending an email to your state senator in opposition to this Trump-style censorship attempt.

arocaction.org

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 28d

The routine filing of baseless complaints means that the teachers who dare to engage their students in lessons about current events are interrogated, falsely accused, their lessons publicly examined under a microscope.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 28d

Despite the bill being shelved in July because of overwhelming public opposition, and a growing global consensus that Israel is in fact committing genocide, the bill's authors are pushing a last-ditch effort to skip all proper legislative procedures and pass the bill anyway.

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 28d

TOP AB 715! AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor criticism of Israel and any education about Palestinian histories, struggles against colonization, and erasure.

Get Help — Palestine Legal

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

If you are a student facing repression for speaking out for Palestine on your university campus, Palestine Legal is here to support you. Get in touch with us at palestinelegal.org/intake.

Request free legal support

palestinelegal.org

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

These attacks on the right to protest harm not only the movement for Palestinian freedom, but also all movements for justice.

Universities need to fulfill their mission — not turn their students, faculty, and staff into prime targets for fascist government repression.

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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

Palestine Legal continues to work on these cases. UCLA community members have also filed a civil rights lawsuit in response to anti-Palestinian repression.
peoplevucla.com

PEOPLE V. UCLA

peoplevucla.com

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

As of August 2025, UCLA is still pursuing disciplinary action against students accused of involvement in the 2024 encampment. Although protesters were the ones attacked by a pro-Israel mob, UCLA has suspended 5 students, censured 7 lecturers and librarians, and fired a lecturer.

VCU releases pro-Palestinian campus activist’s degree after over 2 months

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

Sereen had her degree restored after an appeal, a successful pressure campaign, and representation from Palestine Legal.
www.vpm.org/news/2025-07...

Sereen Haddad won her appeal against a ruling that she broke university rules.

www.vpm.org

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

In May 2025, Sereen Haddad, a Palestinian student at Virginia Commonwealth University, was denied her degree for attending a memorial commemorating violent arrests at VCU’s 2024 encampment.
This punishment came after VCU introduced a new policy banning protests on its lawn.

Teachers' union NEA members endorse cutting ties with ADL

Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 29d

Meanwhile, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League due to its abuse of the term “antisemitism” to punish critics of Israel’s human rights violations.
www.axios.com/2025/07/08/g...

Measure now goes to NEA executive committee

www.axios.com