Institutionalized Discrimination

Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel

 

Adalah’s Report to the World Conference Against Racism,

Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance

 

Durban, South Africa

August/September 2001

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction                                                                                                       1

 

1.  A Historical Overview of the Palestinians in Israel                                          3

 

2.  The Absence of Constitutional Equality [excerpts]                                          7

 

3.  Citizenship                                                                                                    11

 

4.  The Right of Political Participation                                                                 17

 

5.  Speech                                                                                                         23

 

6.  Land and Housing Rights [excerpts]                                                              29

 

7.  Culture and Language Rights                                                                         47

 

8.  Education Rights                                                                                           55

 

9.  Religious Rights                                                                                            67

 

10. Social and Economic Discrimination                                                              73

 

 

Appendix:

 

 

Israel’s Main Discriminatory Laws                                                                     83