Adalah :: Newsletter

Volume 87, November 2011

Unrecognized villages in the Naqab (Negev)

In response to Adalah's petition: Health Ministry re-opens Mother and Child clinic in the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Wadi al-Nam

Following Adalah's petition: Israeli Supreme Court orders state to pave a safe road to school in unrecognized village of al-Fur'a

Economic and social rights

Adalah participates in UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' review of Israel in Geneva

Akka Municipality announces that notices threatening to fine Arab businesses that open on Saturdays were a mistake

Prisoners' and detainees' rights

To mark the Universal Children's Day: Joint position paper on false confessions by Palestinian children and adolescents under coercion

Briefing paper to the EU on combating torture and protecting the human rights of Palestinian detainees and prisoners held in Israel

Commentaries

Sticker No. 5: Security inspections, racial profiling, and the violation of the basic rights of Arab citizens of Israel, by Rawyah Handaklo

No right to compensation, by Fady Khoury

Nakba Legislation

Excerpts in English from Adalah and ACRI's petition to the Supreme Court challenging the Nakba Law

English translation of Adalah's petition on behalf of MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi against the Knesset for its refusal to introduce his bill
prohibiting Nakba denial

Opening Remarks
The Right Context of the Knesset's Laws By Hassan Jabareen General Director, Adalah The government frequently tries to justify its anti-democratic bills by comparing them to laws in democratic states. For example, it contends that the newly proposed bills regarding the nomination procedures for Supreme Court justices reflect the process followed in the United States. When the government coalition passes anti-Arab legislation like the "Nakba Law," which authorizes the finance minister to cut the budgets of publicly-funded institutions that commemorate the Nakba, it argues that we have to defend Israel's values as a "Jewish and democratic" state by citing the German legal principle of "militant democracy." The government has also made similar comparisons to justify bills that would severely limit foreign funding to local human rights organizations. More …
Campaign against Human Rights NGOs
Draconian restrictions on foreign funding to NGOs temporarily frozen by the Israeli government Civil Society Organizations in Israel: Protect activists from violence
New Reports of Partners
PHR-I and PCATI: Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim DCI-Palestine: Voices from East Jerusalem, The Situation facing Palestinian Children Minority Rights Group: Israel's denial of the Bedouin
Holiday shopping
Sindyanna of Galilee: Fair trade for fair society Sidreh – Lagiyya Women's Weaving Project Sunbula: Palestinian traditional handicrafts Canaan Fair Trade

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