UC Berkeley has capitulated to to the "bullying and extortion" of the Trump administration by sharing the names of about 160 students, faculty members, and staff members who have a “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism.”

TOP AB 715! AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor criticism of Israel and any education about Palestinian histories, struggles against colonization, and erasure.

Trump and universities are trying to crush resistance to the genocide in Gaza through: 🚔 law enforcement and ICE partnerships 🚫 the Israel lobby definition of "antisemitism" 🤐 new anti-free speech policies Examples of these attacks and how students & faculty have fought back:

VICTORY: Yesterday, a federal judge concluded the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the APA, the First Amendment and Title VI."

Palestine Legal joined @fightforthefuture.org and 30+ human rights organizations to send a letter to university administrations demanding they roll back harmful surveillance policies and protect their students. Read the full letter here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-08...

Under Trump, the Dept. of Health and Human Services has a new role, writes @alexbkane.bsky.social for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: investigating universities, cutting billions of dollars in funding to schools, and "decimating decades of research" to crack down on support for Palestinian rights.

"Universities did everything in their power to suppress the student movement: suspending people, firing professors, banning clubs— Capitulation doesn’t work. The Trump admin is still fleecing them for millions of dollars," said our staff atty Dylan on a panel at @netrootsnation.bsky.social.

VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge. palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...

#ArmsEmbargoNow: Data compiled and published by Israel’s own govt makes it clear that it has been deliberately starving Gaza, reports @theguardian.com. A worst-case scenario famine is now unfolding in Gaza, UN-backed food security experts said this week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

PRESSURE WORKS! Sereen Haddad, a Palestinian student at Virginia Commonwealth University, has defeated baseless charges and had her degree restored after an appeal, a successful pressure campaign, and representation from Palestine Legal. Sereen has lost 200+ members of her family in Gaza.

THREAD: Columbia University continues to bend the knee to Trump, announcing Tuesday it would further repress pro-Palestinian student activism by adopting the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism and partnering with the ADL, a widely discredited Israel lobby group.