Amid a local pressure campaign, the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has divested roughly 85% of its holdings in Israeli bonds. Mondoweiss speaks with one of the lead organizers of the effort, Zainab Chaudry, Director of CAIR Maryland.
A city official in Miami Beach is being sued for allegedly hiring billboard trucks to attack local Jewish, anti-Zionist activists.
The New School has rejected a student senate vote to sever ties with and cut funding for its Hillel chapter because of “extensive ties to violations of international law.”
Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker who fled persecution by the Israeli military, has finally been released from detention, after being incarcerated by ICE for 20 months.
After a community leader in Milwaukee was detained by ICE, activists are sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on dissenting Palestinian voices.
Last week, a federal jury convicted eight protesters on terrorism charges in a monumental trial that could have far-reaching implications on the U.S. government’s ability to crack down on activism.
Columbia protester Leqaa Kordia has been detained by ICE for nearly a year and was recently hospitalized due to a seizure. Kordia’s lawyers and family members were not told where she was and were not allowed to speak to her for more than 3 days.