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Pro-Palestine legal aid requests stay high in 2025 amid US campus ...
Washington, DC – Requests for legal support related to pro-Palestine advocacy remained high in the United States last year, as President Donald Trump threatened activists and universities with penalties.In an annual report released on Tuesday, Palestine Legal, an organisation that “supports the movement for Palestinian freedom in the US”, said it received 1,131 queries for legal support in 2025.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US Department of Justice sues UCLA over anti-Semitism allegationslist 2 of 3US civil rights group documents ‘broad attack on Muslim life’ in 2025list 3 of 3Pro-Palestine protester Leqaa Kordia freed from US immigration detentionend of listThe figure is below the record 2,184 requests the group received in 2024, when pro-Palestine protests swept US campuses — and were regularly met with crackdowns from both school administrators and law enforcement.Despite universities enacting new restrictions on protests across the country, the figures from 2025 show that pro-Palestine advocacy has persisted, according to Dima Khalidi, the executive director of Palestine Legal.“Our 2025 year-end report shows that while universities have largely cowered and caved to coercive pressure from the Trump administration and its pro-Israel supporters, student activists for Palestinian and collective freedom remain a model of moral conviction and courage,” Khalidi said.“Even when facing punitive consequences for speaking out, they are holding the line of dissent against injustice from the US to Palestine, because they understand the cost of surrender for all of us.”Palestine Legal said that the “overwhelming majority of requests” for legal support came from university students and faculty in 2025, but a growing number, 122, were categorised as “immigration and border-related”.The group received 851 requests from people or organisations targeted for their Palestine-related advocacy, as well as 280 more asking for legal guidance on conducting advocacy.Despite the drop from 2024, the rate of complaints last year remained 300 percent higher than in 2022, the year before Israel began its genocidal war in Gaza on October 7, 2023.Since then, at least 72,560 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.Pressure campaignsIn 2024, Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House in part on a pledge to crack down on the pro-Palestinian protest movement, which sought to shine a light on the human rights abuses unfolding during the war.He has framed such protes...
Despite Pressures and Threats: How Pro-Palestine Protests Swept U.S ...
Universities in the United States have become a major arena for discussion and action against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since last October 7, especially in light of the great American political and military support for "Israel."Over the past months, universities there have struggled to balance their goals of protecting free speech and combating anti-Semitism since the outbreak of war in Gaza, which has proved a political minefield.Last December, three U.S. university presidents who testified before Congress were accused (if not fairly) of being too permissive of free speech in the face of anti-Semitism or being too legalistic in their explanations of their situation.Dozens of American universities have witnessed a tense atmosphere over the past days due to the escalation of pro-Palestinian student protests and against the Israeli war on Gaza, amidst cases of arrest and suspension of studies against dozens of students, in addition to politicians entering the crisis line.Pro-Palestinian activities at several universities, such as Harvard and Columbia, have been met with warnings of growing anti-Semitic movements, especially since many of the country's major universities depend mainly on financial support from Jewish organizations and funders.The pro-Palestinian protests also attracted students and faculty from different backgrounds, including Islamic, Christian, and Jewish faiths. Among the most prominent groups organizing the protests are: Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.Most of the student movement in American universities calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to American military aid to "Israel," divestment of university investments from companies that benefit from the war, and lifting of the suspension of students and faculty members who were subjected to disciplinary measures or expulsion due to protest.Student ProtestsThe protests of American university students began about ten days ago with the establishment of a solidarity camp with Gaza on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, before expanding to include other universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale, and others.Participants in the protests at Columbia University called for severing ties between the prestigious academic institution and "Israel."More than 130 of them were arrested after university authorities called on the police to come to the private campus, in a move that appears ...
British universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine ...
In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists. In total, 12 universities paid the firm to monitor campus protest activity.
EY sued by employee fired over Gaza comments | Compliance | HR ...
The lawsuit filed in US federal court in Washington names EY and five of its executives as defendants, as well as GWU and several of its staff who Culver claims damaged her reputation. Culver's speech came as university leaders were trying to keep a lid on campus tensions over events in Gaza.
