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Resources by @ccrjustice.org, @nlg.org, @unitedwedream.org, CUNY CLEAR Project and more.
These guides and contacts from Palestine Legal and partner organizations will help you assess risks, protect yourself and others, and reduce harm from repression.
In anticipation of this increasing repression, we are uplifting a round-up of legal resources for activists who are protesting the horrific US-Israeli war against Iran.
As the US and Israel brazenly attack Iran — targeting children and civilians using the playbook we have seen in Gaza over the last 2.5 years — we anticipate that the Trump administration will continue to escalate its domestic repression of anti-war & pro-Palestine organizing.
HANDS OFF IRAN! Know your rights so you can speak out, protest, and organize safely!
Read the full legal letter here: palestinelegal.org/news/osu-legal-letter
"...University police threaten us with arrests for an anti-ICE protest or even simply wearing keffiyehs. That is appalling — and unconstitutional," said Jineen, an OSU student.
Ohio State University, stop unconstitutionally censoring and discriminating against Palestinian students!
Today, Palestine Legal sent a legal letter to OSU expressing concern about the school's repeated use of the police force to threaten students into silence.
This decision is a victory for activists who face racist harassment and violence from Zionists over their speech in support of Palestinian rights. Palestinians have a right to exist, to speak up, and to speak freely. The movement will not be deterred by Zionist intimidation. ✊🇵🇸
The court ruled that anti-SLAPP law does not apply to physically threatening conduct, even where the context surrounding that conduct was political in nature.
Steiner, in an Orwellian move, filed an anti-SLAPP motion, attempting to recast his actions as protected political speech, arguing that attacking people for their support of Palestine should be shielded from a lawsuit. The Court of Appeal rightly rejected that assertion.
The Bane Act protects people from threat, intimidation, or coercion for exercising their constitutional rights and Ralph Act protects people from violence or the threat of violence motivated by political affiliation, national origin, race, or other protected characteristics.
The sisters sued, represented by Khaldoun A. Baghdadi, Esq. and Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, for negligence, assault, battery, and violations of civil rights laws -- the Bane Act and the Ralph Act.
As the women began recording, Steiner (a military vet at the time stationed in the Presidio of Monterrey) allegedly grabbed Maryam — a 13 year old — around the neck and waist, seized her phone, and threw it to the ground, shattering it. Maryam was left light-headed and shaken.
Max Steiner, a passerby, began to yell at them and destroy their message. Steiner called them “terrorists”, accused them of killing babies and beheading children and used other threatening, Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian language and dismantled their sign.
In Oct 2023, Sara Khalil, her teenage sister Maryam, and their sister-in-law Pearl Warrick were erecting a “Free Palestine” sign made of sticks, shrubs, and plant debris on a public sand dune known locally as Scribble Hill — a spot regularly used to share messages.
This decision affirms that two Palestinian sisters and their sister-in-law can pursue justice against violent intimidation by a Zionist over their expression in support of Palestinian rights. Decision here: www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/non...
🧵 VICTORY for free speech & Palestinian solidarity! In December, the California Court of Appeal (6th Dist.) upheld the trial court’s denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in Khalil v. Steiner.
And for campus protests from @nlg.org:
While we cannot promise legal representation to all who face backlash in these protests, we are happy to share resources on navigating student conduct processes if you face them as a result of these walkouts, so feel free to reach out.
With many of you hitting the streets today and in the weeks and months ahead, we wanted to uplift some resources about knowing your rights in a protest, particularly for student activists.
Demand UCLA drop all disciplinary cases against pro-Palestinian students by emailing and calling the administration at bit.ly/UCLAdropcases.
When the University of California system failed to legally challenge Trump’s fine, UC unions representing faculty, staff, and students successfully sued the Trump administration themselves.
Last summer, UCLA became the first public university attacked by the Trump administration, which fined the $1.2 billion for alleged antisemitism, i.e. insufficiently punishing Palestine protesters.
These drawn-out disciplinary processes are an egregious use of public resources amidst a budget crisis for the UC system. They are also re-traumatizing students who have suffered Zionist and police violence and harassment.
Students who *have* had hearings are speaking out against the UCLA administration’s lack of due process, inconsistent and uneven punishments, secret and vague evidence, and tendency to invent new student conduct policies to justify charges after the fact.
Some students charged in 2024 have not even had a hearing nearly 2 years later — forcing them to put their lives on hold, threatening their ability to afford basic needs, and chilling their speech on campus. Almost no students charged in 2025 have had hearings.
In 2024, after a wave of student actions protesting UCLA’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, UCLA charged over 175 pro-Palestinian students with student conduct violations. As recently as November 2025, UC police arrests at a protest triggered another group of charges.
