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Newsletter issue 100, January 2013
The Prawer Plan

This month the Prawer Plan is back on the agenda in the Naqab, with the government approving new recommendations by Minister Benny Begin that do little to change the policy of displacing up to 70,000 Arab Bedouin citizens in the unrecognized villages.

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Land and Planning
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Elsewhere Adalah challenged other Israeli policies that exclude Palestinians from what remains of Palestinian land both within the Green Line and in the OPT. In East Jerusalem, Adalah objected to plans for a garbage dump that threaten to confiscate the majority of land in the two Palestinian villages of ‘Anata and Al-‘Issawiyya and stunt their development.
Watch a video of Adalah Attorney Suhad Bishara explaining the implications of this case.

In the north, the District Court rejected Adalah’s petition to cancel a public bid for land in Nazareth restricted specifically to former Israeli soldiers. In the center, Adalah petitioned to prevent Jewish ultra-Orthodox associations from bidding for land in the new city of Harish, in the heart of Arab Wadi ‘Ara. These wealthy groups buy up blocs of land and allocate them exclusively to their members, a procedure that prevents any equal distribution or access to land. Adalah was compelled by the District Court to withdraw the case.
Israeli Elections
Among the most significant repercussions for Arab citizens of Israel of the recent Knesset elections, held on 22 January 2013, is the success of parties Yesh Atid and the Jewish Home. These two parties share an agenda of imposing compulsory military or alternative national service on all Israeli citizens, including Arab citizens.
Prior to the elections, the Central Elections Committee (CEC) disqualified Arab MK Haneen Zoabi. Adalah successfully defended MK Zoabi before the Supreme Court, which allowed her to run. The CEC also banned an elections campaign video released by Arab party Balad/Tajammoa’, a decision that Adalah got overturned unanimously in the Supreme Court.
 
Adalah also represented Arab MKs Mohammed Barakeh and Said Naffaa on politically-motivated charges against them for participating in demonstrations and arranging a trip for Arab Druze religious leaders to holy sites in Syria respectively, with the Nazareth District Court deciding that MK Naffaa’s parliamentary immunity did not protect him.
International Advocacy
Israel boycotted its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 29 January. 15 Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations: “Israel and the Council are setting a dangerous precedent on the international stage, one that could be followed by other states refusing to engage with the UN”. Read Adalah’s report and suggested questions to the UPR.
 
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