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MORE DISCRIMINATORY LAWS ON THE KNESSET'S TABLE
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As the Knesset prepares to reconvene for its winter session on 14 October 2013, Arab citizens of Israel are again high on its agenda. Up for debate are discriminatory and anti-democratic bills that further limit Arab citizens’ land, socio-economic and political rights. They include the Prawer Bill, which would displace up to 70,000 Bedouin citizens and confine them to a restricted area in the Naqab/Negev, and legislation that grants yet more privileges and financial benefits to former Israeli soldiers. |
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At the same time, the legal and political space that Arab citizens have to fight discrimination against them is shrinking, with Knesset members set to vote on bills that undermine their civic status and political role. A draft basic law aims to officially subordinate the state’s ‘democratic’ character to its ‘Jewish’ character, thereby legitimizing discrimination against non-Jews. Another bill, to raise the electoral threshold, threatens to squeeze the Arab political parties out of the Knesset, without creating safeguards for minority representation in the country’s lawmaking body. Adalah is closely monitoring this legislation and will take necessary legal action. |
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STOP THE PRAWER PLAN!
We’re almost there! Help in the final push to reach our target of 10,000 signatures on a petition to stop the Prawer Plan! Sign the petition and share it with your friends and colleagues. On 5 November, on the eve of the Knesset’s discussions on the bill, Adalah, the Negev Co-Existence Forum (Dukium), and the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Naqab will deliver the petition to PM Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, and Housing Minister Uri Ariel.
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FAMILIES INTERRUPTED - PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
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SAVE THE DATE! Families Interrupted, 23 October 2013, Dar Issaf Nashashibi, Jerusalem, 6 pm. The event is being organized by Adalah and Society of St. Yves. It will also include a question and answer session and debate and screening of a short film on the ban on family unification.
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Through a series of anonymous portraits, the exhibition captures the reality of the Palestinian families who are forced to live in the shadows by the Citizenship Law. By photographing them in their personal spaces, it offers glimpses of their day-to-day human existence as families.
Photographed by Jenny Nyman and curated by Rula Khoury.
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