Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights...
Updated: February 29, 2016
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in New York that would threaten core First Amendment-...
Updated: October 16, 2017
The Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal have engaged in advocacy to oppose legislation in California that would threaten core First Amendment-protected...
Updated: October 16, 2017
On April 28, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent copies of their report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S. , to one hundred lawmakers in five states who were...
Updated: October 9, 2017
While there has been recent criticism of those taking the position that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, there is a long history of human rights scholarship and legal analysis that...
Updated: October 5, 2016
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
CCR joined New York City-based advocates and community members on July 12, 2016 in a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association , Maina...
Updated: October 26, 2016
CCR and Palestine Legal provided a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in advance of his March 2017 report to the UN Human...
Updated: January 4, 2017
As Trump’s campaign promises become reality, the University of California (UC) Regents’ so-called “Intolerance Principles” put vulnerable students at risk for increased attacks, warned CCR and other...
Updated: November 22, 2016
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