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August 7, 2019

Students Win Legal Fight Against Fordham University in Bid to Create Club for Palestinian Rights
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Palestinian rights advocates celebrated Tuesday after the New York state
Supreme Court ruled in favor of five Fordham University students who
sought to start a Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, club but
were blocked by the school. The judge in the case found that Fordham's
dean of student life's rejection of the club was "arbitrary and
capricious," and highlighted that SJP promotes "only legal, nonviolent
tactics aimed at changing Israel's policies."

Sapphira Lurie, who graduated from Fordham in 2017 - the same year the
suit was filed - said, "Rather than allow Fordham's administration to
impose its backwards and imperialist politics on us, we were victorious
in the fight for students' rights to organize for justice for Palestine.
This victory shows that when we fight back, we can win. Free Palestine!"

Click here to see our coverage of this case with lead petitioner Ahmad
Awad, and Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal, one of the groups
who brought the suit.


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