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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

First Amendment

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media during a refueling stop at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, on March 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
March 12, 2025, 6:23 pm
Arrest of Columbia anti-Israel activist ‘not about free speech,’ says Marco Rubio
Secretary of state says Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident who distributed Hamas pamphlets on campus, is a ‘visitor’ to the US and has no ‘right’ to stay in the country
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Screenshot of a video on X of anti-Israel protesters outside The University of Minnesota's Morrill Hall, October 22, 2024 (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
October 22, 2024, 2:27 pm
Anti-Israel protesters arrested after occupying University of Minnesota building
Demonstrators demanding the school divest from Israel barricade doors, damage property, and block staff from exiting during brief takeover, school says; at least 11 arrested
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
October 22, 2024, 1:10 am
Anti-Israel US campus groups radicalize, with no one to stop them, experts warn
Former security officials say increasingly violent rhetoric mimics that of 1960s students who pivoted to domestic terror. It’s going unhindered as students point to First Amendment
By Cathryn J. Prince
Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)
August 15, 2024, 4:07 am
UCLA criticizes ruling that pro-Palestinian protesters can’t exclude Jews from campus
US judge finds Jewish students were blocked from parts of university ‘because they refused to denounce their faith… a fact so unimaginable and so abhorrent’ to First Amendment
By Andrew Lapin
Employees seen inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, California, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
March 13, 2024, 11:07 am
Major US Jewish group backs bipartisan bill that could see TikTok banned
Jewish Federations of North America says it supports the proposed law due to concerns of antisemitism proliferating on the platform
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
February 21, 2023, 8:53 pm
US Supreme Court keeps Arkansas anti-BDS law in place, declining to intervene
Justices reject appeal on behalf of an Arkansas newspaper that objected to a state law that reduces fees paid to contractors who refuse to sign pledge not to boycott Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)
June 23, 2022, 9:46 am
US appeals court rules that laws against Israel boycotts don’t violate Constitution
Ruling by St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit court is a major victory for pro-Israel activists who have pushed some 30 states to adopt anti-BDS laws
By Andrew Lapin
A protester stands outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, flanked by anti-Israel and antisemitic signs, in 2020. On Jan. 18, 2022, the Ann Arbor City Council formally condemned the weekly protests, which had been going on for 18 years. (Alex Sherman/Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
May 26, 2022, 8:18 am
US Supreme Court rejects petitions against longtime Ann Arbor anti-Israel protesters
Plaintiffs, one of them a Holocaust survivor, argued the protests targeted Jews at their place of worship, violating their First Amendment rights
By Andrew Lapin
'The Fight for Free Speech' (NYU Press) by author and free speech legal expert Ian Rosenberg. (Portrait photo by Larry Bercow)
June 6, 2021, 4:56 pm
US free-speech lawyer: Government legislation a threat to First Amendment rights
In his new book ‘The Fight for Free Speech,’ author, professor, and ABC News legal counsel Ian Rosenberg cites 10 contemporary cases that highlight how fragile that freedom is
By Cathryn J. Prince
US Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks after being nominated by US President Donald Trump (L) to the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House on July 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 29, 2020, 11:55 pm
Supreme Court ruling could force US aid recipients to follow US policy on Israel
Decision in case on opposing sex trafficking finds foreign organizations operating abroad are not protected by First Amendment; NGOs in Middle East also considered in deliberations
By Ron Kampeas
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat -New York, gestures while testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 12, 2019. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
November 5, 2019, 12:26 am
Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for blocking ex-lawmaker Hikind on Twitter
US Democrat had blocked former New York assemblyman for criticizing her comments likening border detention camps to concentration camps
By Deepti Hajela
Illustrative: A man holds a sign during a rally in support of the BDS movement in Albany New York, on June 15, 2016. (AP/Mike Groll)
March 30, 2019, 2:24 am
Federal judge hears arguments in lawsuit on Israel boycott law
Texas regulation requiring contractors to say they do not support BDS violates First Amendment, opponents claim
By Clarice Silber
Demonstrators protesting against Israel in New York City, June 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
January 9, 2019, 9:48 pm
US Muslim group sues to block anti-BDS measure in Maryland
Latest First Amendment suit comes as Democratic lawmakers block GOP Senate bill granting states legal cover for penalizing contractors who support Israel boycott
By AP and ToI Staff
Texas speech pathologist Bahia Amawi, who filed a federal lawsuit after her school district refused to renew her contract unless she signed a pro-Israel oath. (screen capture: The Intercept)
December 17, 2018, 9:22 pm
Texas speech pathologist files federal lawsuit over anti-BDS law
Bahia Amawi says Austin school district violated her First Amendment rights when it withdrew job contract over her refusal to sign pro-Israel pledge
By ToI Staff
Author Ron Chernow at his home in Brooklyn, New York, on April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)
November 19, 2018, 11:35 pm
Ditching comic, White House reporters pick historian Chernow for gala
Breaking from tradition of having a comedian at annual dinner, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, who has fiercely opposed Trump, to lecture on free speech
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
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