Palestine Legal

 ( Arab-american Culture In Chicago ) 

Palestine Legal is an advocacy group focused on defending people who support Palestinians rights. The group is headquartered in Chicago. Its founder and director is Dima Khalidi, a Palestinian born in Beirut and raised in the US.

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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." 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.

In 2019, Palestine Legal lawyers reported responding to more than 180 attempts to suppress the speech of students and Academic staff supporting Palestinian rights.

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

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.

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