By Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with CCR For us Palestinian-Americans, the height of election year means it is cringe season. The American Israel Public Affairs...
Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward and carefully pours the coffee his mother has just brought in...
“Israel is occupation-addicted,” said renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “The drug addict who is your friend, if you give him money, he...
When a United States detention center is hundreds of miles off the coast, it can be difficult for Americans to imagine the plight of the people who have been held there for the past 15 years. The...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on Monday, April 4. The April vigil will make connections between imprisonment of Muslims and the...
After nearly 13 years of U.S. wars in the region, the Middle East continues to experience increasing violence and political instability. Yet the news media has placed the domestic costs of war in the...
Join CCR President and Pittsburgh Law Professor Jules Lobel , CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous , and other experts from a variety of disciplines and countries to talk about solitary...
J. Wells Dixon moved to New York from Hartford on Sept. 11, 2001, to start a job as an associate at Kramer Levin Frankel & Naftalis. At the time, he says, he could never have imagined that 14...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir will moderate a panel at a day-long conference about Palestine that aims to address the substance of the right to return, its grounding in international law, and its...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir and Palestine Legal Staff Attorney Rahul Saksena will discuss the historical, comparative, and theoretical context of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). Shakir...
