Summary

United States legal organization defending Palestine activism, as presented in Noura Erakat’s Chapter 1 speech in From the River to the Sea: it recorded over 400 complaints of harassment, doxxing and abuse in the three weeks after 7 October 2023, against an average of 2-300 complaints a year, and does its work with only six staff attorneys (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 293-295).

Details

  • Erakat asks her audience to support Palestine Legal “in defending our front line” so that thousands more can stand up and fight back, in a speech whose appeal is that Palestinians “do not want your charity, they want your solidarity” (line 295).

From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Noura Erakat