Adalah (organization)

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Headquarters in Haifa

Adalah ( Hebrew עדאלה - המרכז המשפטי לזכויות המיעוט הערבי בישראל, Arabic عدالة - المركز القانوني لحماية حقوق الأقلية العربية في اسرائيل) is a Haifa-based independent human rights organization that represents the political and legal interests of the Arab minority in Israel. "Adalah" - in German "Justice" - was founded in November 1996. The organization files petitions with the Israeli Supreme Court and provides legal advice to individuals, non-governmental organizations and institutions. In national and international law, Adalah advocates the individual and collective equality of the Arab inhabitants of Israel as well as the general human rights of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. The organization issues publications and analyzes on important legal topics. Press releases in Arabic, Hebrew and English appear both locally and internationally. News updates are also issued regularly.

history

Adalah is one of the human rights organizations representing the interests of the Arab-Palestinian minority that emerged as a result of the political and demographic changes brought about by Oslo I and Oslo II . The Oslo Peace Process gave the Palestinians an autonomous administration in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank .

“Adalah's most important goal is the individual and collective equality of the Arab-Israeli population of Israel in all areas. It stands up for equal civil and political rights, cultural, social and economic rights, for property rights to land and real estate, for the rights of the Arab communities and the illegal Bedouin communities. "

- Office of the Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process January 2006 : Music - A Tool for Peacebuilding?

Positions

Adalah believes that Israel's Palestinian people are discriminated against in over 50 laws.

Adalah criticized the fact that Arab students have Jewish culture and history in the curriculum and that the Bible is a compulsory subject for obtaining the Abitur, but Arabic content cannot be attended or only optional.

The change in citizenship law passed by the Israeli parliament in 2003 was criticized, according to which Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens are neither granted permanent residence status nor Israeli citizenship. It's about Israeli Arabs marrying Palestinians.

In 2007, Adalah submitted a draft constitution for Israel. In it she presents her concept of a binational state and calls for the ethnocratically structured country to be democratized. In Israel, from Adalah's point of view, the ethnic majority alone has full civil rights, while the 20 percent or so Palestinian-Arab citizens do not.

In November 2008, Adalah formally objected to Israel's regional development plan for Jerusalem . The organization took the view that the development plan would separate Palestinian residential areas even further than before, thereby further restricting development opportunities for Palestinians.

Adalah has filed a total of 20 lawsuits against Israeli soldiers who were active in Gaza. In 2010 Adalah published several studies on the credibility of the Israeli investigations into the Gaza offensive, the treatment of Palestinian prisoners and the failure to comply with international standards in the Israeli investigations.

The 2009 Goldstone Report summarizes the results of an investigation commissioned by the United Nations into the Gaza War . In this report, which documents, among other things, violations of the Israeli armed forces against the international law of war , Adalah is quoted several times.

In October 2010, when the Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire was expelled, Adalah pointed out that Israel had repeatedly refused entry to critical intellectuals. These included activist Noam Chomsky and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Richard Falk .

In 2012, Adalah passed the Admissions Committee Law adopted by the Knesset in 2011 as an example of discriminatory legislation to human rights officers in the USA and Europe. The US State Department and the European Commission then included it in their reports on Israel. In September 2014, the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of this law. Commenting on this ruling, Adalah said that the court legalized the principle of segregation of residential areas for Arab and Jewish residents, thereby allowing everyday racism against Arab residents in 434 Israeli communities.

Adalah also opposes Israel's policy towards the Bedouins of the Negev . According to Adalah, the "Israel Land Administrative Office" is spraying chemicals to destroy the Bedouin grain crops. Adalah has sued the government over it. On May 30, 2013, Adalah published a position paper funded by the European Union, which accuses Israel of violently severing the Bedouins' historically grown ties to their country in a comprehensive and final manner. In May 2015, on behalf of the residents of the Bedouin village of Umm al-Ḥīrān , the organization appealed to the Supreme Court against its imminent eviction to no avail .

During the Gaza War in 2014, Adalah sent a statement to the UN Human Rights Council on July 22nd. In it, Adalah condemned the attacks by the Israeli army on the Palestinian civilian population as unlawful and as a gross violation of international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Adalah called for an independent commission of inquiry to be set up.

On August 20, 2015, the Israeli Supreme Court suspended the administrative detention of the Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Allan because his life was in danger as a result of a hunger strike. On September 16, 2015, he was arrested again. On August 17, 2015, Adalah filed a petition asking for the administrative detention order to be lifted on the grounds that Allan was not a threat due to his poor health. The court only suspended the detention order without revoking it entirely.

criticism

Since the conflict over the Gaza war of 2008/2009, some non-governmental organizations in Israel have been heavily criticized. In 2010, the right-wing organization Im Tirtzu accused at least 12 Israeli human rights organizations of campaigning for Israelis accused of violating international humanitarian law to be tried in courts outside Israel. The New Israel Fund and the Ford Foundation have been accused of supporting these human rights organizations.

Israeli human rights organizations, including Adalah, were accused in Germany of being silent about rocket fire on Israeli villages in the Hamas- ruled Gaza Strip, but of condemning Israeli Gaza policy. It was also argued that according to Adalah's criteria, every state on earth is an “apartheid state”. The vast majority of laws listed by Adalah as discriminatory do not mention religion or ethnicity; they apply equally to every citizen.

financing

In the period from 2012 to 2015, Adalah had income of 11,526,902 NIS (the equivalent of around 2.8 million EUR). 48 percent of these were private donations, 26 percent were direct donations from governments, 19 percent came from Christian aid organizations, and 7 percent donated Jewish groups. The largest single donations:

year Amount in NIS country Financiers
2012 1,337,430 Netherlands Oxfam Novib
2013 1,180,758 Netherlands Oxfam Novib
2012 766.003 Private Open Society Institute
2013 737.400 Private Open Society Institute
2013 502.654 Germany Bread for the World - Evangelical Development Service
2012 474,621 Germany Bread for the World - Evangelical Development Service
2012 428.419 Private New Israel Fund
2013 421.004 Private New Israel Fund
2012 383,560 Private Ford Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News update August 4, 2010. (PDF) IPK Institute for Palestine Studies, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Ulrike Egetenmeier: Nonviolent Resistance - An alternative way to regulate the Israel – Palestine conflict. (PDF) In: IMI study. Informationsstelle Militarisierung eV, December 2004, p. 3 f , accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Larissa Sailer: Music a means of promoting peace? The commitment of the Barenboim Said Foundation in Israel-Palestine. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Matura thesis at the Kantonsschule Wattwil. November 2006, p. 36 , archived from the original on November 21, 2015 ; Retrieved November 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Monika Bolliger: Echo of an Arab metropolis. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 7, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Uriel Kashi: Democracy Education in Israel - History and Current Approaches. (PDF) Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation, 2008, p. 20 , accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  6. ^ Israel: Legal reform denies right of residence to Palestinian spouses. (No longer available online.) September 23, 2013, archived from the original on November 22, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  7. ^ Draft Constitution for Israel. Heinrich Böll Foundation, November 19, 2007, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  8. ^ The situation of workers in the occupied Arab territories. (PDF) In: International Labor Conference, 98th Session 2009. International Labor Office Geneva, 2009, p. 17 , accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Stephanie Selg: Reactions and “Follow up” at international, European and Swiss level to the report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza conflict (Goldstone report). (PDF) (No longer available online.) Forum for Human Rights in Israel / Palestine, December 31, 2010, p. 35 , archived from the original on November 20, 2015 ; Retrieved November 20, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Richard Goldstone: HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES - Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. (PDF) United Nations Human Rights Council, September 25, 2009, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Israel identifies a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. October 5, 2010, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  12. ^ Johanna Hartung, Patricia Lange: Israel: A jewish state or a state for all its citizens? A discourse-analytical study of the Arab-Palestinian minority and their relationship to the Israeli state. (PDF) Global Media Journal - German Edition, 2014, p. 12 f , accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Ben White: Courting apartheid: how Israel's top judges rubber-stamp discrimination. MEM Middle East Monitor, April 26, 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Unrecognized Settlements: On the Problems of the Bedouins in the Negev. haGalil - Jewish Life Online, July 12, 2009, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  15. ^ The Prawer-Begin Bill and the Forced Displacement of the Bedouin. (PDF) Adalah, May 2013, accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Michal Rotem: Umm al-Ḥīrān - The story of a Bedouin village in Israel. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. March 7, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Palestinian NGOs in Israel to UN HRC: Gross Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations and Suspicions of War Crimes in Gaza. Adalah, July 22, 2014, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Imprisoned again. Amnesty International Germany, September 17, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  19. ↑ Jörn Böhme: Difficult times for the Israeli civil society. (No longer available online.) Heinrich Böll Foundation, May 6, 2010, archived from the original on October 10, 2018 ; Retrieved November 20, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Gerald M. Steinberg: Do Israelis have no human rights? Die Welt, November 21, 2012, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Sebastian Leber: How BDS incites against Israel. Der Tagesspiegel, December 18, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  22. ^ Adalah Funding. (PDF) NGO Monitor, July 19, 2015, accessed on November 20, 2015 (English).