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Arab leadership takes action against Israel's new Jewish Nation-State Law

2018-08-06

Adalah files Israeli Supreme Court petition on behalf of Arab political leadership in Israel, including High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens, the National Committee of Arab Mayors, and the...

Adalah and the Civic Coalition-Jerusalem: New Regional Master Plan for Jerusalem will suffocate Palestinian neighborhoods, enable settlement expansion

2012-09-13

Adalah and the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem (CCDPRJ ) organized a press conference yesterday (invitation), 12 September 2012, on the National Council for...

Adalah to Levy Committee: International Law Does Not Distinguish Between Settlements and Unrecognized Outposts, All Must Be Removed

2012-06-18

(Haifa, Israel) On 12 June 2012, Adalah sent a position paper to the Levy Committee, which was established by the Israeli government to consider how to retroactively legalize unrecognized...

UN Calls on Israel to End Racial Discrimination

2012-03-15

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),...

Israeli Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Family Unification

2012-01-12

On 11 January 2012, the Israeli Supreme Court in a 6-5 decision, delivered a 232-page judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law – 2003 (as amended...

Adalah Petitions Supreme Court to Demand Cancellation of New "Admission Committee Law"

2011-03-31

Following the passage of a racist law called the "Admission Committees Law" in the Knesset on 22 March 2011, on the same day as the “Nakba Law,” Adalah submitted a petition to the Supreme Court...

UN: Israel Must Ensure Equal Rights for Arab Women Citizens

2011-02-23

(Nazareth, Israel) The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) issued its Concluding Observations on Israel in February 2011, in which it called on Israel to ensure...

Israeli Supreme Court Hears Adalah's Petition Demanding Cancellation of "Admission Committees"

2011-02-03

On 1 February 2011, the Supreme Court of Israel heard two separate petitions - one submitted by Adalah (HCJ 8306/07) and the other filed by the Tel Aviv University Human Rights Clinic (HCJ 3552/08)...

Adalah: New Bill Demanding Loyalty to the Jewish State from Arab NGOs Threatens their Existence

2010-11-04

(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...

UN Human Rights Committee Urges Israel to Revoke Ban on Family Unification Law; Ensure Access to non-Jewish Holy Sites; Make Public Administration Fully Accessible in Arabic; Guarantee Cultural Contact for the Arab Minority; Respect Bedouin Rights to Ancestral Land and Basic Services in the Unrecognized Villages

2010-08-04

(Haifa, Israel) On 29 July 2010, the UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), issued its Concluding...

Breaking Away from the Israeli Model

“Americans understand now what Israelis have felt for years.”2 In the days following 11 September 2001, it became quite common to hear statements like this one made by Moshe Fox of the Israeli...

Initial Comments on the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Nationality and Entry into Israel Law

n the Supreme Court’s ruling on H.C. 7052/03, Adalah, et al. v. Minister of Interior, et al., delivered on 14 May 2006, which stretches over 263 pages and includes eleven separate opinions of the...

Proposed JNF land exchange policy is discriminatory

2005-06-28

On 18 June 2005, Adalah sent a letter to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Attorney General (AG) Menachem Mazuz, calling on them to reject the Gadish Committee's recommendations to...