Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

The Inequality Series

Three short films written and directed by Rachel Leah Jones for Adalah about the inequalities faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel. These films accompany Adalah's publication, "The Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel"

Targeted Citizen - Unrecognized Village Case (7 minutes, 2011) sheds light on the issues of the planning and building in the unrecognized villages. The film focuses on the case of Kammaneh in the Galilee, and exposes the Israeli government's policy of "separation" between Arab and Jewish citizens of the state through land planning.

Targeted Citizen - Israel Railways Case (7 minutes, 2011) shows the ongoing discrimination against Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel in the area of employment rights and the obstacles that would exclude them from the labor market. The film focuses on a case in which Israel Railways attempted to dismiss all of its 130 Arab workers by changing the job requirements to include the performance of military service.

Targeted Citizen (15 minutes, 2010) surveys discrimination against Palestinian citizens in Israel in land and housing, employment, education and civil and political rights. Interviews with Adalah attorneys and other experts are reinforced by the contrasting informality of on-the-street conversations conducted by Palestinian comic duo Shammas-Nahas and punctuated by the hard-hitting rhymes of Palestinian rap trio DAM. DAM's song "Targeted Citizen," was written and recorded especially for Adalah and the film.

Videos

	August 2009: Intreview with Adalah Attourney Suhad Bishara about the new land reform law, which violates the property rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian refugees
	August 2009: International Law Professor Iain Scobbie from SOAS, London discusses the Geneva Conventions on their 60th anniversary
	March 2009: Interview with Adalah Attorney Sawsan Zaher about the Citizenship Law case
	February 2009: Dr. Hala Khoury-Bisharat, an international law expert and a member of Adalah’s Board of Directors, speaks about the groundbreaking January 2009 decision by the Spanish National Court to probe Israel’s killing of Salah Shehadeh and 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in 2002
	January 2009: Adalah's General Director Attorney Hassan Jabareen discusses the attempt to disqualify Arab political parties

Other Films

Nomads Against their Will

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Nomads Against their Will (4.33 minutes, 2011), written and directed by Eli Zreik for Adalah, is a short film about the unrecognized village of Atir–Umm el-Hieran in the Naqab (Negev), which is threated with demolition. The film presents viewers with two possible scenarios for the future of the village over the next ten years: one, a beautifully developed village designed by Arab town planners and architects, and the other, a destroyed village.

Forbidden Land, 2008

‘Forbidden Land’ is a short documentary produced by Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab
Minority Rights in Israel that highlights the confiscation of Palestinian Arab-owned land by
Israel. Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel lost their land in the 1950s and 1960s after the
government seized it, claiming that the land was needed for "essential" public purposes.

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'The Unrecognized'

'The Unrecognized' is a short documentary which highlights the plight of Palestinian Arab Bedouin citizens of Israel living in the Naqab (Negev) desert, many of whom were forced off their lands following the establishment of the state in 1948.

Approximately 70,000 now live in the poverty of 'unrecognized villages', where they are denied essential public services and face fundamental human rights violations due to institutionalized discrimination.

Film Information
Produced by	Fifty Nine Ltd
Written and commissioned by Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Supported by Oxfam GB and the European Union
Duration	23 mins
Original Format	DV-PAL

The contents of this film are the sole responsibility of Adalah (the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.

DVD copies are available for screening purposes, as are fully subtitled versions for the deaf.