Anthony Aguilar has made headlines for blowing the whistle on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Now he’s sharing his first-hand account of what he witnessed in Gaza with Defending Rights & Dissent. A retired U.S. special forces officer, Aguilar worked for| Defending Rights & Dissent
Since the launch of its war on the Palestinian people of Gaza, Israel has been credibly accused of violating international humanitarian law and even the Genocide Convention. While the world has looked at images of Palestinians being starved, displaced, and| Defending Rights & Dissent
Pursuant to an ongoing lawsuit brought under the Freedom of Information Act, Defending Rights & Dissent and the Brennan Center for Justice have obtained FBI guidance on the Bureau’s ability to monitor social media for counterintelligence and law enforcement purposes.| Defending Rights & Dissent
The Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee voted to include a troubling provision in the report accompanying their FY26 Appropriations bill that directs the DOJ to re-establish the deeply flawed China Initiative (page 45 of the Committee report). The China| Defending Rights & Dissent
An investigation by Defending Rights & Dissent has revealed that the Department of Homeland Security distributed a “situational awareness bulletin” in advance of the release of the film How To Blow Up A Pipeline to law enforcement agencies across the| Defending Rights & Dissent
On the weekend of June 1, 2018, activists, academics, and writers gathered at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for the annual Left Forum conference. With roots in the Socialists Scholars Conference, Left Forum was regularly one of the largest| Defending Rights & Dissent
Defending Rights & Dissent Policy Director Chip Gibbons appeared on the popular political talk show The Majority Report today for a live discussion about the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech. Speaking to host Emma Vigeland, Chip discussed the arrest| Defending Rights & Dissent