Palestine Legal

Palestine Legal
FounderDima Khalidi
TypeAdvocacy group
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Websitepalestinelegal.org

Palestine Legal is an advocacy group focused on defending people who support Palestinian rights.[1][2] The group is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.[3] Its founder and director is Dima Khalidi, a Palestinian born in Beirut and raised in the US.[4][5]

Activity

In 2015, Palestine Legal published a report with the Center for Constitutional Rights about what the two organizations described as "the Palestine exception to free speech."[6] During the first four months of 2015, the organization reported responding to 102 requests from university students and faculty for legal aid, most of them involving accusations of support for terrorism and antisemitism.[7]

In 2019, Palestine Legal lawyers reported responding to more than 180 attempts to suppress the speech of students and academics supporting Palestinian rights.[8]

In May 2021, Truthout reported that Palestine Legal had been tracking bills that would harm advocacy for Palestinian rights since 2014.[9]

In response to the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, Dylan Saba, an attorney with Palestine Legal, said "Glory to the resistance and the people of Palestine". Saba was described by The Forward as part of a small segment of the Jewish left that supported the Hamas attack.[10]

References

  1. ^ Pilkington, Ed (May 21, 2021). "US campuses become a growing front in Israeli-Palestinian conflict". The Guardian. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  2. ^ Strickland, Patrick (May 14, 2021). "As Violence Spikes in Middle East, Ted Cruz Targets Israel Boycotters". Dallas Observer. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  3. ^ Paul, Ari (May 20, 2021). "Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics". Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  4. ^ "Dima Khalidi". Truthout. May 17, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  5. ^ Biddle, Sam (May 14, 2021). "Facebook's Secret Rules About the Word "Zionist" Impede Criticism of Israel". The Intercept. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  6. ^ Sainath, Radhika (May 23, 2021). "When It Comes to Palestine, Free Speech Rights Are Under Attack". Jacobin. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  7. ^ Eaton, Emily Marie (December 2015). "Let's all meet in Palestine". Dialectical Anthropology. 39 (4): 424. doi:10.1007/s10624-015-9400-7. ISSN 0304-4092. S2CID 143230857.
  8. ^ Kane, Alex (February 25, 2021). "This university claims to be pro-justice. So why is it banning Palestine activism?". +972 Magazine. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  9. ^ Cohn, Marjorie (May 24, 2021). "Outrage Over Israel's Human Rights Violations Is Fueling the Global BDS Movement". Truthout. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  10. ^ Rosenfeld, Arno (October 9, 2023). "Meet the Jews defending Hamas". The Forward. Retrieved December 9, 2023.

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