Shatil
This Israeli organization was created to provide nonprofit organizations with the assistance they need to become stable and effective institutions. Shatil’s Equal Access Initiative strives to promote true coexistence within Israel by closing the socio-economic gaps between Jewish and Arab citizens. |
Bedouins of Palestine
A special report on the Bedouins of Palestine from The Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem (ARIJ). The page supplies information about how the Bedouin way of life in Palestine is under threat of extinction as a result of the constant harassment of the Israeli government, provides demographic statisitics and maps, and gives a chronology of recent events. |
The Arab Association for Human Rights
This Israeli organization was founded in 1988 to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles. Its website has an excellent group of pages on unrecognized villages, which covers planning and contruction laws, demolitions, depravation of services, recognition, reccomendations for action, and further information. You can also view HRA's discrimination diary entry on Kammana. |
Adalah
This legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel helped us file a petition against the Regional Council of Misgav and thier exclusion of Jalassa from Kammana's development plan. The main goal of Adalah is to achieve equal rights and minority rights protections for Arab citizens of Israel. Thier website has many useful resources including a historical and legal overview of Arabs in Israel. |
