A student club is suing its school, saying its pro-Palestinian views were censored

Students at a Washington, D.C. public school are suing their principal and the school district over the administration's censorship of the Arab Student Union's pro-Palestinian speech, according to the federal lawsuit filed by the the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia.

The lawsuit argues that the Jackson-Reed High School students' rights were violated "because the school does not want their viewpoint—which concerns the ongoing war in Gaza and its effects on the Palestinian people—to be heard."

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The lawsuit alleges that the club was prevented from holding its Palestinian Culture Night in the way the students wanted, that they were barred from distributing a one-page "zine" that explained various Palestinian symbols and were not allowed to offer face paint "tattoos" or to distribute pro-Palestine stickers.

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In 1965, a group of students in Des Moines decided to make a public showing of their support for a truce in the Vietnam war by wearing black arm bands. School administrators created a policy stating any student refusing to remove the armband would be suspended. On December 16, 1965, two students, Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt, wore their armbands to school and were sent home. Their arguments prevailed with the Supreme Court holding that students did not lose their freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property.

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