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Activists petition Treasury Department to sanction charities that serve as terror proxies

A coalition of 45 organizations sent a letter to the US Treasury Department petitioning to sanction specific non-profits that reportedly serve as terror proxies, according to a statement by the Zachor Legal Institute in February. “This would disallow all financial institutions operating in the United States from offering them service or support of any kind, […]

Klansmen in Keffiyehs

University presidents last week finally said aloud what many Americans suspected: the pro-Palestinian uprisings that swept across campuses after Hamas’s October 7 attack were not spontaneous acts of youthful conscience but were well-coordinated and funded. “It’s more than a social contagion,” said Vanderbilt’s chancellor. “They’re organized networks as well.” Syracuse’s chancellor went further: “I really […]

Rubio Should Label Radical Palestinian Group A Terrorist Org, Watchdog Says

A pro-Palestinian agitation group that celebrated the murder of two Israeli Embassy staff members in May should be classified as a foreign terrorist organization, a watchdog organization told Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Zachor Legal Institute said Tuesday that the radical group Unity of Fields should be considered a terrorist organization, according to a […]

Lyons’ congressional defense of actions at Cal-Berkeley fails to impress Jewish advocates

One of those facing many questions was California-Berkeley chancellor Rich Lyons. “Going forward, for example, there are certain things that we talk to students about all the time. They make demands. Let’s leave ourselves beyond the antisemitism question, as like, do we discuss improving the campus.” Vanessa Hites is the legal director for education at […]

Not your Grandparents’ ACLU

(July 22, 2025 / JNS) When the Beverly Hills City Council recently voted to join a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Southern California, I was the lone dissenting vote. During the council meeting, I made it clear that the main source of my opposition and reason for my “no” was that joining any American Civil […]

Why did Texas A&M decide to shut down its Qatar campus?

Why would a respectable public American university decide to shut down its Middle East campus, sacrificing international prestige and hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from a tiny Gulf country with almost unlimited oil wealth? Zachor Legal Institute spent over five years in litigation with Qatar to obtain information about its activities at Texas […]

Zachor Legal Institute Provides Students and Activists With A Legal Fact Sheet on Israel and Colonialism

Rebutting the false claims that Israel is a settler-colonialist entity and showing who the true settler-colonialists are in the Middle East BOZEMAN, MONTANA, USA, November 12, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — As antisemitism rages on university campuses and urban streets, Zachor Legal Institute is making available our important law review article, “The True History of Colonialism in the Holy Land: […]

Zachor Legal Institute Renews Call for DOJ to Investigate Antisemitic Campus Groups

Calls for the federal government to prosecute terror-affiliated campus groups are more relevant now than ever before. BOZEMAN, MT, UNITED STATES, November 12, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Zachor Legal Institute, a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating antisemitism, is once again urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to initiate a RICO investigation into terror-backed campus groups. In […]

Palestinian terrorists ‘exploit loopholes’ for taxpayer dollars, watchdog tells Congress

EXCLUSIVE — Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups “exploit” little-known “loopholes” to fundraise and gain major footing in the United States financial system due to a lack of Treasury Department laws, a watchdog group alleged in a memo to Congress this week. The eight-page memo was authored by Zachor Legal Institute, an organization that “combats the detrimental financial impact and […]