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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 02:21 20/12/2007 Adalah center issues report on Israel's treatment of Arab minority By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Minority Rights, Adalah  The Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has presented the United Nations with a highly critical report on Israel's treatment of its Arab citizens. The report was presented on February 1 in preparation for United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination discussions in Geneva next week, in which 18 jurists from around the world are set to participate. Adalah's appeal is part of a wider effort by Arab organizations to internationalize the discussion around the relationship between Israel and its Arab citizens. Adalah expects the report to serve as a basis for the committee's discussion and thus create intentional pressure on Israel to change its policies. Advertisement The report outlines several issues that Adalah claims are in violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), on which Israel is a signatory. One of the report's claims is that Israel enacts laws and enters into agreements with institutions such as the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Fund (JNF) that exclusively allocate land to Jews. The report also claims that laws conditioning certain social and financial benefits on a military service discriminate against most of Israel Arab population. An additional issue presented by the report is Israeli legislation allowing severe interrogation methods against detainees suspected of security offences, most of who are Arabs. The report also claims the people responsible for the deaths of 13 Arabs from Israel Police fire during the events of October 2000 were not put on trial. Further claims in the report are that Israel prevents its Arab citizens from marrying Palestinian partners if they wish to reside in Israel; the state exercises extreme discrimination in the budgets it allots Arab towns; Arab citizens have been evacuated from their Negev homes under the claim that the homes were illegal; standards for accepting Arab students into higher-education institutions are discriminatory; state laws give official status to Jewish cultural institutions, but not to Arab ones; and the government has not issued any amendments to address the protection of Muslim and Christian holy sites. The ICERD, drafted in 1966, was one of the first human rights treaties to be adopted by the UN. There are 173 signed states, including Israel, which ratified the ICERD in 1979. The convention commits member states to amend or cancel national laws and policies that create or perpetuate any form of racial discrimination Bookmark to del.icio.us Religious discrimination Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch rejects Israel's Jewish identity in a pre-Christmas speech. Patriot protection The IDF successfully tested an improved defense missile in anticipation of attacks.   1.   Israel is not shy 15:12  |  T A Sheppard 15/02/07   2.   T A Sheppard 15:43  |  Robert 15/02/07   3.   A Jew reads this & weeps 15:54  |  Dani Reiss 15/02/07   4.   what do you expect from an apartheid state? 15:54  |  Sami 15/02/07   5.   We SHould Give Arabs Here The SAME Rights As Arab Countries Give 16:01  |  Yishai Kohen 15/02/07   6.   Robert - Prove this 16:28  |  Skandar 15/02/07   7.   Yishai - Correct approach 16:38  |  Skandar 15/02/07   8.   We are not settlers, we are living here for generations 16:43  |  George Khadra 15/02/07   9.   Arab Governments are mostly dictatorships 16:43  |  Skandar 15/02/07   10.   Pretty soon it`ll be green crescents on their sleeves 17:17  |  Michael Steiner 15/02/07   11.   Israel`s predicament. 17:31  |  Colin 15/02/07   12.   Jews of Hebron also lived there for generations 17:37  |  Dani 15/02/07   13.   Steiner: It`s Called Quid Pro Quo 17:54  |  Yishai Kohen 15/02/07   14.   To Geoge Khadra 18:47  |  Mark B. 15/02/07   15.   dont forget to say that not changing the flag is discrination 19:17  |  Zionist forever 15/02/07   16.   arabs look for problems 19:26  |  zionist forever 15/02/07   17.   to Skandar 19:36  |  AK 15/02/07   18.   Not a perfect world- Israel neither 19:38  |  Avrum 15/02/07   19.   The Human Factor 19:55  |  Alicia 15/02/07   20.   Apartheid state i think Not 20:02  |  Meyer 15/02/07   21.   #3 Dani .. Please Do not cry.. 20:15  |  AV 15/02/07   22.   to number 16 20:30  |  Blinky the Fish 15/02/07   23.   fair game 20:31  |  counter-skandar 15/02/07   24.   Arab minority situation. 20:38  |  David Nigel Braham 15/02/07   25.   Resentment will have consequences 20:41  |  Najdt 15/02/07   26.   This and many other reports begs for an 21:19  |  TOMY 15/02/07   27.   Re Yishai Kohen nos 5 and 13 21:19  |  Colin Wright 15/02/07   28.   Re #18 `Not a perfect world -- Israel neither.` 21:22  |  Colin Wright 15/02/07   29.   #9 Skander, Sweden is not a counry whoom 21:30  |  TOMY 15/02/07   30.   Dani Reiss 21:32  |  Mark Lincoln 15/02/07   31.   Scandar, Israel is the envy of the world 21:42  |  TOMY 15/02/07   32.   Israeli Arabs are the envy of 1.2 million 22:48  |  TOMY 15/02/07   33.   Skandar from London 22:52  |  Somebody from Europe 15/02/07   34.   Skander,you arabs were unsatisfied with Sweden too 23:03  |  Absolute Sweden 15/02/07   35.   #25 Najdt, Resentment has nothing to do 23:04  |  TOMY 15/02/07   36.   RE:30 .. Dani Reiss 23:20  |  zionist forever 15/02/07   37.   The only democracy between the Jordan and the River 23:22  |  Andreas 15/02/07   38.   #20, #30 23:25  |  AV 15/02/07   39.   #3 Dani."...it all reminds me painfully of Jewish experience..." 23:42  |  curious 15/02/07   40.   Do you even know what democracy means? 00:00  |  Lori LowenthalMarcus 16/02/07   41.   Tommy- equal rights in one own country-Reasonable expectation 00:03  |  Najdt 16/02/07   42.   Skandar 01:09  |  Robert 16/02/07   43.   #3- Bravo Dani Reiss - A Compassionate Iraeli Jew Actually Exists 02:53  |  chet 16/02/07   44.   racist remarks of anti-zionists 08:23  |  saul a. readner 16/02/07   45.   to Robert 10:36  |  the pope 16/02/07   46.   #41Najdt , what I am trying to say, is that 17:36  |  TOMY 16/02/07   47.   If we`re so bad, why not go have a better life in an Arab country 08:03  |  JRB 18/02/07   48.   News Alert 20:38  |  New Homeland 18/02/07

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