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President Donald Trump rescinded Friday an executive order aimed at crippling law firm Paul Weiss’s ability to function, after the firm’s leaders agreed to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, submit to an audit of employment practices, and provide free legal services for Trump causes. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) [...]

A pro-Palestine activist organization filed a legal challenge on Monday against the passage of controversial laws permitting police to restrict protest near places of worship in New South Wales, Australia. The Sydney-based Palestine Action Group announced in a media release that it is filing a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against [...]

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s actions to deport Palestinian activists. The lawsuit seeks a nationwide injunction against executive orders that violate scholars’ freedom of speech. The ADC filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York against [...]

I was recently removed from an academic listserv for expressing my concerns about the administration of Donald Trump. This type of self-censorship permeating across sectors, including academia, is a troubling sign of our times. In some ways I feel as though we are living in 1933 Germany, when Adolf Hitler took power and rapidly dismantled [...]

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student and legal US resident, who was transferred to a Louisiana detention facility following his arrest by immigration officials. The case has garnered intense media scrutiny due to Khalil’s legal immigration status in the US, and his arrest in the [...]

International civil rights organization CIVICUS on Monday added the US to its Monitor Watchlist of countries experiencing a decline in civic freedoms due to executive overreach. CIVICUS said in a press release that the decision comes after the Trump administration’s recent “assault on democratic norms and global cooperation,” and that the administration’s actions have “severely [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an investigation on Wednesday into the University of California (UC) to determine whether the public university system engaged in a pattern or practice of antisemitic discrimination against professors, staff or other employees on its campuses. The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism will investigate UC under Title VII of [...]

Signed by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, the executive order titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” lays the foundation for yet another discriminatory policy targeting individuals from predominantly Muslim and Arab nations. This directive mirrors the controversial 2017 Muslim Ban, granting the [...]

The Australian government on Thursday enacted a new law banning the display of hate symbols and mandating minimum sentences for certain terror offenses, as part of a broader effort to curb a surge in antisemitism across the country. The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 targets the most extreme types of damaging hate speech, [...]

US President Donald Trump laid out plans on Thursday to combat what he described as an “explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets” in recent months. The announcement came on the heels of an executive order, issued Wednesday, on measures the administration planned to take to protect American Jews. As has become [...]