Adalah's Newsletter Volume 11, March 2005

01/03/2005

Volume 11, March 2005

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Following Adalah's Petition, Supreme Court (SCt) Orders Israel Prison Service to Explain Decision to Prevent Physical Contact between Political Prisoners and their Children

Adalah Petitions SCt to Order Army to Give Family of Meteb al-Nebari Summary Report Regarding the Circumstances of his Killing

Featured Case

On Gender and Nationality in Education: Petition to SCt to Establish High School for Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Naqab
By Salim Abu-Medeghem, Adalah's Naqab Field Researcher

Articles for Yum El-Ard (Land Day)

On Class and Nationality in Housing Rights

By Suhad Bishara, Adalah Attorney

The Policy of Settlement and "Spatial Judaization” in the Naqab

By Hana Hamdan, Adalah Urban and Regional Planner

Criminal Justice

Mahash Request to Exhume Body of Asil Asleh, Killed by Police in October 2000, was Made in Bad Faith and Harms the Dignity of the Deceased and his Family

Adalah to Transport Minister: Cancel Regulation which Authorizes General Security Service to Prevent Citizens of Israel from Obtaining Driving Licenses

Religious Rights

Beer el-Sabe Municipality Rejects SCt's Suggestion to Open Big Mosque as an Islamic Cultural Center and Demands it be Converted into a Museum

International Advocacy

Intervention before the UN Commission on Human Rights Regarding the Ban on Family Unification Law - FIDH, Al Haq, and Adalah

Intervention before the UN Commission on Human Rights Regarding the Policy of the Jewish National Fund - Habitat International Coalition and Adalah

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Opening Remarks

30 March 2005 is the 29th anniversary of Yum El-Ard (Land Day), one of the most significant days for Arab citizens of Israel as a homeland minority. Land confiscation is a primary constituent of national identity for homeland minorities around the world. As a result of the just struggle of these groups, and in order to achieve equality through distributive justice, many states have given restitution, including compens- ation for the tort of land confiscation as well as the return of the land itself. Where this is impossible, there is a need to find alternative, negotiated solutions. The history of arbitrary land confiscation by Israel against Arab citizens mandates the application of the principle of restitution for: Arab citizens displaced from their villages in 1948 and thereafter; Islamic Waqf land confiscated under the Absentees' Property Law; Arab citizens whose private land was confiscated under arbitrary laws; and unrecogni- zed villages and individual Arab citizens with land ownership claims in the Naqab.

Commentary

Sharif Hamadeh, Adalah, interviews Fr. Shehadeh Shehadeh on the first Yum El-Ard Protest

Anne Massagee, Al Haq: Property Destruction as Collective Punishment in the OPTs