Adalah in the News: 2013

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December

Palestine is a topic too far for Boston African-American paper by Jeff Klein - Mondoweiss, 31 December 2013

Israeli right-wing assault on leftist NGOs is 'stab in the back' gambit by Chemi Shalev - Haaretz, 26 December 2013

Court rejects petition to criminally charge MK Zoabi for Mavi Marmara involvement by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 23 December 2013

Court rejects petition to criminall charge MK Zoabi for Mavi Marmara involvement - The Journal of Turkish Weekly, 23 December 2013

Israeli Arabs face red tape when leasing JNF land by Jack Khoury - Haaretz, 23 December 2013

Israel government retaliating against violent Bedouin protests with harsh detention - by Shirly Seidler, Haaretz, 19 December 2013

Prawer protesters beaten, threatened with rape by Israeli police in Haifa - by Sawsan Khalife', The Electronic Intifada, 17 December 2013 

Adalah: The government’s decision to cancel the Prawer Plan bill is a major achievement - FIDH, 17 December 2013

Taking direct action against Israel’s racist marriage law - by Patrick O. Strickland, The Electronic Intifada, 17 December 2013

Netanyahu's point man on Bedouin relocation says plan still on track - by Jonathan Lis, Jack Khoury and Shirly Seidler, Haaretz, 17 December 2013

Bennett backs 'NGO Bill': Stop the masochism - by Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post, 16 December 2013

Bedouin face eviction as Israeli builds new towns - Maan News, 13 December 2013

Israel defers controversial Bedouin relocation plan - Russia Today, 13 December 2013

Israel forced to back down on racist Bedouin removals - The Standard, 13 December 2013

Bedouins battle 'racist' Israeli evictions - The Standard, 13 December 2013

 
Israel Shelves Plan to Move Bedouins Amid Outcry - The New York Times, 12 December 2013

Judaisation vs Justice: Israel's war on the Bedouin proves 1948 settled nothing by Jonathan Cook - Mondoweiss, 11 December 2013

Having never asked, Israel's government 'surprised' Bedouin reject Prawer by Mairav Zonszein - +972 Magazine, 10 December 2013

In an Israeli Plan, Bedouins see a threat to their way of life by Jodi Rudoren - New York Times, 7 December 2013

JNF Honors Stephen Harper at Annual Gala, names bird sanctuary after PM by Paul Di Stefano - Rabble, 3 December 2013

Police demand media outlets turn over material from Prawer plan protest by Ben Hartman - Jerusalem Post, 2 December 2013

Police threatened us, say protesters against Bedouin relocation by Shirley Seidler - Haaretz, 1 December 2013

Decades of dispossession and discrimination: Um al-Hiran by Mya Guarnieri - +972 Magazine, 1 December 2013

Fallout from Beduin protests threatens passage of bill by Ariel Ben Solomon and Ben Hartman - Jerusalem Post, 1 December 2013

28 stilll detained following Prawer protest - Alternative Information Center, 1 December 2013

Israeli rights group slams police response to ant-Prawer protests - Ma'an News, 1 December 2013

Video: Israel police brutalize child amid anti-Prawer protests by Ali Abunimah - Electronic Intifada, 1 December 2013

Police drag, arrest and allegedly beat Bedouin child at anti-Prawer protest by Mairav  Zonszein - +972 Magazine, 1 December 2013

November

Protesters clash with police over Bedouin displacement by Kareem Khadder - CNN, 30 November 2013

Britons protest over Israel plan to remove 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins by Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian, 29 November 2013

International 'Day of Rage' against the Prawer Plan planned for tomorrow by Adam Horowitz - Mondoweiss, 29 November 2013

Put a stop to the displacement of Bedouin communities in Israel by Nadia Ben-Youssef - Huffington Post, 27 November 2013

Boston Globe article on water partnership gets the story wrong in Massachusetts and Israel/Palestine by Joel Wool - Mondoweiss, 21 November 2013

Beduins please to Supreme Court: Don't throw us out to build Jewish village by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ariel Ben Solomon - Jerusalem Post, 20 November 2013

Jewish groups, American rabbis call on Israel to withdraw Bedouin displacement plan by Mira Sucharov - The Daily Beast, 20 November 2013

Bedouin call on court to block destruction of their Negev village by Shirley Seidler - Haaretz, 20 November 2013

Israeli plan for Jewish Negev town 'racist' - Ma'an News, 12 November 2013

Renounce theft of Bedouin land - Haaretz (Editorial), 12 November 2013

NGO: Israeli plan for Jewish town racist - Al Jazeera English, 12 November 2013

Israeli cabinet approves demolition of Bedouin village, replacement with Jewish community by Shirley Seidler - Haaretz, 10 November 2013

Cabinet OK's razing Bedouin towns to build Jewish settlement in their place by Noam Sheizaf - +972 Magazine, 10 November 2013

Knesset panel debates Beduin resettlement bill by Ariel Ben Solomon - Jerusalem Post, 7 November 2013

'Catastrophe' looms as Israel debates Bedouin resettlement by Luisa Gandolfo - The Conversation, 5 November 2013

Rare appeal granted in policy of education for Palestinian prisoners by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 4 November 2013

October

Max Blumenthal on exposing hardcore racism in 'liberal' Tel Aviv by Nora Barrows-Friedman - Electronic Intifada, 31 October 2013

A-G, Livni : Veterans bill could lead to racial, religious discrimination by Lahav Harkov and Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 28 October 2013

New Israeli discriminatory laws tabled by Stephen Lendman - Indybay, 24 October 2013

Institutionalized discrimination in Israel by Khaled Amayreh - Al Ahram, 23 October 2013

Palestinian youth jailed by Israel for Facebook statuses released - Ma'an News, 22 October 2013

Israel: poorest country in the OECD by Sergio Yahni - Alternative Information Center, 20 October 2013

Israeli police lock up Haifa activist for Facebook statuses by Yoav Haifawi - +972 Magazine, 17 October 2013

Israel's discriminatory laws are embedding racial inequality by Nadeem Shehadeh and Amjad Iraqi - The Hill's Congress Blog, 14 October 2013

Bedouin resist Israeli relocation plans by Majd Kayyal - Al-Monitor, 15 October 2013

High Court hears petition to criminally charge Zoabi for Mavi Marmara flotilla involvement by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 9 October 2013

September

Bedouins slam Israel's desert development as 'Nakba in the Negev' by Shira Rubin - Christian Science Monitor, 17 September 2013

Clandestine Israeli trailer park in JNF forest aims to take over Bedouin village by Allison Deger - Mondoweiss, 13 September 2013

High Court looks set to throw out law used to seize East Jerusalem land by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 11 September 2013

Israeli court may suspend law used to take over Palestinian land in Jerusalem by Nir Hasson - Haaretz, 11 September 2013

Israel court to rule on controversial property law - Ma'an News, 10 September 2013

Israeli High Court to hear landmark case on Absentees' Property Law in Occupied East Jerusalem - Palestine News Network, 9 September 2013

August

Israel: Bedouin Facing Mass Evictions from their land - Human Rights Watch, 30 August 2013

Israel's bedouin battle displacement by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours - Al Jazeera English, 29 August 2013

Is there a place for Jews in the future Palestinian state? by Akiva Eldar - Al-Monitor, 28 August 2013

The settlers willing to vacate the West Bank for a Kerry-brokered two-state solution by Allison Deger - Mondoweiss, 27 August 2013

Supreme Court to rule on legality of settlement boycott by Adam Keller - Jerusalem Post, 20 August 2013

Bedouin Arabs fear upheaval as Israel plans townships in Negev by John Reed - Financial Times, 9 August 2013

A Second Nakba? by Sam Gilbert - Counterpunch, 8 August 2013

Day of Rage by Emily Mulder - Palestine Monitor, 4 August 2013

Resettlement plan cements Bedouin distrust of gov't - Times of Israel (via Associated Press), 2 August 2013

Protest in al-Naqab against the Prawer plan displacement of Bedouins - IMEMC, 2 August 2013

Long-running battle over Israeli Bedouins comes to a head as Knesset debates resettlement plan by Associated Press - Washington Post, 1 August 2013

Activists rally across Israel, West Bank against plans to  relocate Beduin by Tovah Lazaroff and Ariel Ben Solomon - Jerusalem Post, 1 August 2013

July

Israel's Bedouin population faces mass eviction by Noreen Sadik - The New Internationalist, 23 July 2013

Bedouins fight new catastrophe in the Negev by Vita Bekker - The National, 22 July 2013

Israeli parliament approved the deportation of 40,000 Bedouin from their land by Shir Hever - The Real News, 21 July 2013

Crackdown on anti-Prawer demonstrations shows unequal right to protest by Mairav Zonszein and Haggai Matar - +972 Magazine, 19 July 2013

Resource: Full text of Prawer-Begin plan for Negev Bedouin by Adalah and ACRI - +972 Magazine, 19 July 2013

Israel: Demolitions of Bedouin homes in the Negev desert must end immediately - Amnesty International, 18 July 2013

Israel: Excessive Force against Protesters - Human Rights Watch, 18 July 2013

South Africa, Israel and the continuing struggle against Apartheid by Joanne Naiman - Rabble, 17 July 2013

Fighting new Nakba in the Negev by Ben White - Al Jazeera English, 17 July 2013

Arab Israelis protest against Bedouin relocation plan - Xinhua News, 16 July 2013

Margaret Atwood among new signatories to Canadian writers' open letter to Israeli and Canadian leaders - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, 16 July 2013

Activists protest across the nation against Bedouin resettlement plan by Gadi Golan - Israel Hayom, 16 July 2013

Palestinians strike to #StopPrawerPlan - The Stream/Al Jazeera English, 15 July 2013

14 arrested at Bedouin demonstration in Beersheba by Lazar Berman - Times of Israel, 15 July 2013

Protests in Israel against Prawer Plan by Nouran El-Behairy - Daily News Egypt, 15 July 2013

Protests in the Negev, the West Bank, and Gaza against the Begin-Prawer Plan by Shamus Slaunwhite - IMEMC News, 15 July 2013

Israeli-Arabs to strike against Prawer-Begin Plan by Ariel Ben Solomon - Jerusalem Post, 15 July 2013

The Nakba Continues: Israel's Bedouin Face Mass Displacement by Nadia Ben-Youssef - The New Left Project, 15 July 2013

'When I look at the Prawer Plan, I see another Nakba' (Interview with Suhad Bishara) - +972 Magazine, 14 July 2013

Canadian writers urge Israel to halt evictions of thousands of Palestinians and Negev Bedouins by Shamus Slaunwhite - IMEMC News, 12 July 2013

Knesset revives attempt to restrict foreign funding of left-wing NGOs by Jonathan Lis - Haaretz, 10 July 2013

Treatment of Palestinians is apartheid by any other name by Jonathan Cook - The National, 10 July 2013

African Americans Compare Treatment of Palestinians to US Segregation Laws - WAFA News, 2 July 2013

June

Ex-South African Israel ambassador likens Bedouin treatment to apartheid by Phoebe Greenwood - The Telegraph, 19 June 2013

New Law to give ex-soldiers in Israel special privileges - Middle East Monitor, 18 June 2013

Arabs: Preferential treatment bill 'discriminatory' - Ynet News, 17 June 2013

Report: Thousands protest plan to remove Beduins - Jerusalem Post, 13 June 2013

'Temporary' ban on Palestinians living in Israel with spuses now in its 10th year - Washington Post, 12 June 2013

Amusement Park may be tip of iceberg in Israel by Nathan Jeffay - Jewish Daily Forward, 10 June 2013

Negev residents to protest forced displacement plan - Ma'an News, 9 June 2013

Israeli town with anti-Bedouin bias earmarked for Dutch water project by Adri Nieuwhof - Electronic Intifada, 9 June 2013

Minority report: On equality and inequality in Israel by Yossi Mekelberg - Al Arabiya, 9 June 2013

Israel's health minister promises full child allowances to families that don't vaccinate babies by Dan Even and Revital Hovel - Haaretz, June 6 2013

All the fun of the fair at Israel's segregated amusement park by Hugh Naylor - The National, 6 June 2013

May

Slain Bedouin girls' mother, a victim of Israeli-Palestinian bureaucracy by Amira Hass - Haaretz, 26 May 2013

From Al-Araqib to Susiya: Forced Displacement of Palestinians on Both Sides of the Green Line - Jadaliyya, 21 May 2013

Palestinian activists sue Israel for the return of 6,000 books by Vita Bekker - The National, 19 May 2013

Israel's dirty little secret: the 'internally displaced persons' it continues to deny basic rights by Daud Abdullah - Middle East Monitor, 17 May 2013

Report: Forced displacement on both sides of the Green Line - +972 Magazine, 16 May 2013

Arab Israeli 'Nakba' descendants return to village by Shatha Yaish - AFP, 16 May 2013

Watch: "From Al-Araqib to Susiya" - Palestinians highight Israel's ongoing efforts to expel them by Ali Abunimah - Electronic Intifada, 15 May 2013

Return to Iqrit: How one Palestinian village is being reborn by Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian, 15 May 2013

At Tel Aviv University, A Battle Over Memory by Patrick O. Strickland - In These Times, 14 May 2013

"From al-Araqib to Susiya" documentary encourages new framework of resistance by Felix Black - Palestine Monitor, 12 May 2013

Despite threats, students to commemorate Nakba at Tel Aviv University by Patrick O. Strickland - Electronic Intifada, 10 May 2013

NGO: Decrease in child allotments will hurt Arabs by Ariel Ben Solomon - Jerusalem Post, 10 May 2013

Israeli military service requirement discriminates against Arab citizens by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours - Al Monitor, 5 May 2013

Israel and a Sports Boycott: Lessons from South Africa by Football Beyond Borders - Middle East Monitor, 3 May 2013

Apartheid imprisonment: Jewish versus Palestinian "security" prisoners by Charlotte Silver - Electronic Intifada, 3 May 2013

April

Palestinians displaced despite Israeli citizenship by Jillian Kestler D'Amours - Al Monitor, 30 April 2013

Obstacles to justice and redress for Palestinian victims: joint statement issued by Palestinian, Israeli and Int'l NGOs - FIDH, 26 April 2013

Palestinian children denied education in Israeli prisons by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours - Al Monitor, 26 April 2013

When racial profiling is a national policy by Noam Sheizaf - +972 Magazine, 25 April 2013

Bulldozers flatten Bedouin village 49 times by Jillian Kestler D'Amours - Al Jazeera English, 18 April 2013

Palestine activists call on Netherlands prince to disassociate from JNF water project by Adri Nieuwhof - Electronic Intifada, 18 April 2013

On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, almost 5,000 are still in Israeli jails - Middle East Monitor, 17 April 2013

Mistreating Palestinian children by Stephen Lendman - The People's Voice, 11 April 2013

Israel's perpetual state of emergency by Mira Sucharov - The Daily Beast, 12 April 2013

Yale names 2013 World Fellows by Julia Zorthian - Yale Daily News, 2 April 2013

March

Samera Esmeir in Conversation with Adalah's Suhad Bishara, Marking Land Day in Palestine; and Lina Attalah on the Future of Egypt Independent Newspaper - Jadaliyya/VOMENA, 30 March 2013

Why Palestinians continue to commemorate Land Day by Dalia Hatuqa - Al Monitor, 28 March 2013

Resistance burns bright in hunger strikers' village by Maath Musleh - Electronic Intifada, 26 March 2013

Adalah launches online 'Discriminatory Laws Database' to monitor racist Israel legislation by Adam Horowitz - Mondoweiss, 19 March 2013

Israel breaks up checkpoint wedding to challenge citizenship laws - Maan News, 9 March 2013

Attacks and anti-Arab bigotry 'more acceptable' in Israel by Hugh Naylor - The National, 8 March 2013

Israel arrests Palestinian activists "to finish colonization project" by Jillian Kestler D'Amours - Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2013

The unequal right to water in unrecognized Bedouin villages by Sawsan Zaher - +972 Magazine, 1 March 2013

February

Judge acquits Arab protesters, slams Israel Police for trumped-up charges by Jack Khoury - Haaretz, 27 February 2013

How Israel legitimises torturing Palestinians to death by Charlotte Silver - Al Jazeera English, 25 February 2013

Palestinian students "surrounded by guns" at Israeli universities by Sawsan Khalife - Electronic Intifada, 22 February 2013

The fatal blow of solitary confinement by Gideon Levy - Haaretz, 17 February 2013

Israel renews effort to displace Bedouin by Hugh Naylor - The National, 15 February 2013

High Court rejects Zoabi's appeal against Knesset by Lahav Larkov - Jerusalem Post, 14 January 2013

Israel Supreme Court throws out 'anti-torture' petition - Al Bawaba, 12 November 2013

Worries of torture as Israeli SC rejects petition by Patrick O. Strickland - Bikya News, 12 November 2013

Court refuses to make Shin Bet record interrogations by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 11 February 2013

Israel plans to evict Palestinians, building new Jerusalem-area garbage dump on their villages by Adri Nieuwhof - Electronic Intifada, 6 February 2013

BBC acknowledges that Palestinian citizens of Israel are not guaranteed equality by law by Ben White - Electronic Intifada, 3 February 2013

Revisions to Prawer Plan for Negev Bedouin expose the farce of law in Israel by Nadia Ben-Youssef - +972 Magazine, 3 February 2013

January

Relocation Plan Threatens Israel's Bedouin Community by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours - Al Monitor, 31 January 2013

Some Fear a Soccer Team’s Racist Fans Hold a Mirror Up to Israel by Jodi Rudoren - New York Times, 30 January 2013

NGOs denounce Israel’s ambivalence towards UNHRC by Patrick O. Strickland - Bikya News, 29 January 2013

Israel boycotts UN rights council in unprecedented move - BBC News, 29 January 2013

Rights Groups say Israel must submit review report to UN - Palestine News Network, 29 January 2013

8 Israeli rights NGOs urge Israel to cooperate with UNHRC - Jerusalem Post, 29 January 2013

Bedouin slam Israel's land offer as 'back-room deal' by Jack Khoury, Zafrir Rinat and Ofra Edelman - Haaretz, 28 January 2013

Gov’t approves plan for disputed Beduin lands by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 28 January 2013

Palestinian citizens wearily eye Israeli elections by Jonathan Cook - Electronic Intifada, 18 January 2013

Lost Tribes by Daniel Levy - Foreign Policy, 15 January 2013

Court accepts Strong Israel-Balad campaign petition by Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jerusalem Post, 15 January 2013

Court okays Balad, Otzma LeYisrael ads by Aviel Magnezi - Ynet News, 15 January 2013

Hanin Zuabi: Not here to be loved by Dalia Karpel - Haaretz, 4 January 2013

Cover-up led to anti-Zoabi campaign by Sawsan Zaher - Ynet News, 3 January 2013