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CRUSHING DISSENT: The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom NYU Law National Lawyers Guild Co-Sponsors: NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Middle East Crisis Response 10/21, NYU Law School Vanderbilt Hall - *Greenberg Lounge*, 6PM REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED In a groundbreaking new report <http://palestinelegal.org/s/Palestine-Exception-Report-Final-jpjy.pdf>, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Palestine Legal have documented the extensive campaign by lobbying organizations and billionaires to shut down the dynamic, growing movement for Palestinian rights on US campuses. Fueled by Israel’s periodic massacres in Gaza, the campaign for Palestinian rights has sought to expose and sanction the Israeli government’s ongoing violations of international law and the role of the US government and corporations in facilitating these indignities. A multi-billion dollar network of public relations firms, lobbying groups, and Israeli-government affiliated initiatives have pressured universities and governments to censor pro-Palestinian speech, cancel events, tarnish student activists as “terrorists,” fire professors, or even criminally sanction non-violent advocacy. Egregiously, donors and lobbyists managed to push the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign to fire Indigenous Studies professor Steven Salaita <http://www.ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/salaita-v-kennedy-et-al> after the professor published a series of outraged tweets against the Israeli invasion of Gaza -- prompting international outcry <http://www.usacbi.org/2014/08/over-1200-scholars-boycott-university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-until-professor-steven-salaita-reinstated/>. Join attorneys from the CCR and Palestine Legal along with activists for justice in Palestine as we discuss the report and the climate of fear that seeks to suppress a growing movement for justice in Palestine. Omar Shakir is a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, currently representing fired Palestinian professor Steven Salaita. Omar will speak about the case and what it means for the right to dissent. Radhika Sainath is a Staff Attorney at Palestine Legal (and Cooperating Counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights), where she provides legal advice and advocacy support to Palestine rights activists, students and professors on issues ranging from free speech, discrimination, threats, surveillance and disciplinary charges. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
