Discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel

Tomorrow, Wednesday 20 June 2012 at 9 am, the Israeli Supreme Court will hear the petition of MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi (Ra'am-Ta'al), against the Speaker of the Knesset, MK Reuven Rivlin, for prohibiting...

(Haifa, Israel) On 11 June 2012, Adalah submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) to assist it in preparing a “List of Issues” for Israel in July 2012. The UN HRC...

Adalah submitted an NGO report to the Committee in December 2011 on Israel's lack of compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD),...

Petition submitted in 10/04 against the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Minister of Finance (MOF), demanding the cancellation of an ILA policy and a...

In August 2009, Islam, Mar'am, Lina and Saf'aa, four Muslim girls from the Arab village of Jatt, located in the Triangle area in the center of Israel, went to visit their aunt in Tel Aviv.

Petition filed by Adalah on behalf of married Arab couple Ms. Fatina Ebriq Zubeidat and Mr. Ahmed Zubeidat against the community town of Rakefet and the Israel Land Authority (ILA). The Court...

The Knesset enacted the Nakba Law on 22 March 2011. The law authorizes the Minister of Finance to reduce funding or support provided by the state to an institution if it holds an activity that...

Adalah, EMHRN, and Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA) report describing the Palestinian minority's status, and specific steps the EU can take to improve minority treatment while maintaining...

Any citizen who cares deeply about the future of the State of Israel cannot but feel uneasy about the developments of the past decade and the growing number of racist incidents and intolerance...

On 13 December 2010, Adalah sent a letter to the Israel Land Administration (ILA) demanding the cancellation of an internal ILA decision issued in 2007 that orders public land to be transferred to...

(Haifa, Israel) On Sunday 7 November 2010, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation will discuss a new private member's bill entitled, “The Bill for Protecting the Values of the State of...

Last night, 10 October 2010, the Israeli government approved a new amendment to the Citizenship Law which would require all non-Jews seeking citizenship via the naturalization process to declare an...

(Haifa, Israel) In response to petitions submitted by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Adalah, the Israeli Supreme Court decided on 15 September 2010 that Amendment 146 to the Income...

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The duty to comply with judgments issued by the judiciary is based on the principle of the rule of law and is obligatory. The basic rationale behind the application of this principle of the rule of...

The Knesset Economic Committee recently considered the issue of the Israel Land Administration reform, and approved a draft law on the subject. The draft law, inter alia, institutes a regime of...

The new Israel Land Administration (ILA) legislation, which is currently being debated in the Knesset in the framework of the Economic Arrangements Law for 2009-2010, seeks to implement...

The judge: We will begin to hear the case of The State of Israel v. Abed Aghbariya. How does the defendant plead? The defense attorney: The defendant pleads not guilty, your honor. Since his...

Supreme Court of Israel held a hearing on petitions filed by Adalah; by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel; and by the Tel Aviv University Law Clinic with Mossawa demanding the cancellation...

In 2008, the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) considered many new pieces of "anti-Arab" legislation, several of which have been enacted into law. Some of these new laws and proposed bills are...