On April 18, 2016, CCR, Palestine Legal, and the NLG of Ohio sent a memorandum to Ohio lawmakers opposing H.B. 476, an anti-boycott bill pending in the Ohio House of Representatives. The bill would...
Updated: October 16, 2017
September 26, 2017As debates about free speech on college campuses rage, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said that America’s universities are “transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and...
On April 18, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal opposing S.B. 327, an anti-boycott bill that would prohibit the state from contracting with individuals...
Updated: October 11, 2017
On June 24, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to New Jersey Assembly and Senate members opposing A925 and S1923, anti-boycott bills that would create a blacklist of companies that abide...
Updated: March 27, 2025
On October 24, 2016, CCR, Palestine Legal, and the National Lawyers Guild sent a memorandum to Pennsylvania Senate members opposing HB 2107, a bill that prohibits state agencies from contracting with...
Updated: October 16, 2017
October 2, 2017Ten years ago, John Mearsheimer and I published a controversial article and subsequent book examining the impact of the “Israel Lobby” — that is, a loose coalition of pro-Israel individuals and...
October 6, 2017Erwin Chemerinsky, the new dean of Berkeley Law, has been making waves in campus politics regarding free speech issues. Chemerinsky is a major constitutional law scholar, an outspoken liberal and a...
October 18, 2017The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of a Kansas public school teacher who, as a condition for taking her job, was required under a new state law to declare...
October 20, 2017In the aftermath of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the Texas coast in years, one city is requiring all applicants for relief money to provide in writing a guarantee they do not and...
The growing number of anti-BDS laws across the U.S. should be seen "in the larger context of this very well-resourced effort to shut down the entire grassroots movement for Palestinian rights," says...
Updated: October 25, 2017
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