Press Releases

Adalah Director Hassan Jabareen to Central Elections Committee: I refuse to go in and start trying to convince racists why Arab should be equals.

Under court pressure, Afula to end ban on non-residents from entering park; court ruled local authorities have no legal power to close public parks or collect entrance fees, let alone prohibit entry.

Adalah represented families of 13 Palestinians killed by Israeli police in October 2000; Barak, who ordered police to deploy deadly means including snipers, was directly responsible for killings.

Adalah demands Israeli authorities clarify why no criminal probe opened into planting of 1,200 hidden video cameras in polling stations in Arab communities during 9 April national elections.

Gisha, Adalah, and Al Mezan call on Israel to halt aerial spraying of herbicides along Gaza fence. New Forensic Architecture report on spraying based in large part on work conducted by the three...

Adalah demands adoption of measures that will lead to equality in land benefits policy; gov't set NPAs relating to construction and housing without including Arab towns.

David Yellin College, under pressure from extreme-right wing Israeli activists, took disciplinary action against two students that lacked legal basis.

Six UN Special Rapporteurs issued a joint letter to Israel, recently made public, raising serious concerns about Israeli government plans to forcibly displace 36,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel.

Adalah demands Israeli Education Ministry immediately halt online course; Nazareth school cancelled exchange program to Sweden rather than having its students learn racist ideology.

Gisha, Adalah, and Al Mezan filed Supreme Court petition; Israel says it will return another 65 boats and fishing vessels seized from Gaza fishermen within the next four months.

Adalah attorney and her infant son banned from entering public park in Afula after security guard determines they are from Arab city of Nazareth; Adalah takes legal action.

Committees in Israeli Jewish towns can reject potential residents based on 'social suitability', essentially enforcing de facto housing segregation between Jewish and Arab citizens.

72-year-old Salwa Salem Copty finally allowed to visit Christian cemetery surrounded by Israeli military base built on the ruins of destroyed Palestinian village near Nazareth.

Adalah demands Israel prohibit use of live ammunition against protesters; military retroactively invented 'key instigator' category to justify shootings of people who posed no immediate danger.

Delegitimization and racist incitement against elected representatives of Palestinian Arab public in last April election was not exclusive domain of any one particular Israeli political camp.

Israel says will return boats 'subject to security and political considerations'; NGOs demand Israel return them immediately along with all on-board equipment, without further costs to boat owners.

March went forward following Adalah's legal intervention after Israeli police initially refused to grant necessary permits to event organizers.

Adalah: Israel demonstrates continued unwillingness to investigate its actions in a long series of suspected war crimes and attacks on Gaza.

Activists from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party wore some 1,200 hidden cameras at polling stations in Arab towns across the country during Israel's national election on Tuesday.

Less than half the population living between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River will determine the fate of millions of Palestinians without citizenship and basic rights, in an election...