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21 January 2015
Two courts have already ruled the lawsuit against the co-op is frivolous; now the Washington state supreme court will weigh in. Read more about Washington supreme court hears arguments on Olympia co-op's boycott of Israeli goods
18 October 2014
The group invokes a new California law alleging the academic boycott enables “unlawfully discrimination,” but the American Studies Association is still going forward with plans. Read more about Anti-gay Christian group threatens to sue hotel for hosting scholars who endorse Israel boycott
2 April 2014
Pro-Israel groups are using court venues around the world in an attempt to stilfe the Palestinian-led boycott campaign, but are having surprisingly mixed results. Read more about Israel's incompetent global campaign of "lawfare"
New York City 11 March 2014
Ghassan Elashi’s wife’s garnished wages are the latest example of how far the US is willing to go to silence and scare those involved in Palestinian activism. Read more about US confiscating a quarter of “Holy Land Five” wife’s wages
San Francisco 22 October 2013
Tenuous evidence used to smear Council on American-Islamic Relations. Read more about How the FBI blacklisted US' largest Muslim civil rights group
28 August 2013
The US Department of Education has thrown out three separate legal claims filed by Zionist students against the University of California. Read more about Victory for campus free speech as US Dept. of Education throws out “anti-Semitism” complaints
14 December 2012
Sahar Francis of Addameer, the Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy organization, says that the Israeli army’s recent raids on human rights groups in the West Bank is because of Palestinian civil society advocacy for human rights and BDS. Read more about Podcast: Israel wants to criminalize human rights defenders, says head of Palestinian group raided by army
12 December 2012
A letter sent Monday to the Department of Education from the ACLU states that Israel-aligned groups’ complaints of discrimination because of Palestine activism “raises constitutional red flags that are significant and alarming.” Read more about ACLU condemns “lawfare” targeting campus Palestine solidarity activism
15 August 2012
Invoking state secrets, a federal court has dismissed a class-action case against the FBI for unlawfully surveilling southern California’s Muslim community. Read more about US federal court upholds state secrets privilege, foregoing rights of Muslim citizens
18 April 2012
Nancy Murray, education director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, explains why she believes a “Muslim exception” is being carved out of the First Amendment, how a juror came to Tarek Mehanna’s sentencing hearing last week to ask the judge for mercy, and why Mehanna’s case has wide-reaching implications. Read more about "You will be punished if you don't become an informant": ACLU's Nancy Murray on Tarek Mehanna case