Arab Minority Rights
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Arab citizens of Israel face entrenched discrimination in all fields of life. In recent years, the prevalent attitude of hostility and mistrust towards Arab citizens has become more pronounced, with large sections of the Israeli public viewing the Arab minority as both a fifth column and a demographic threat. There are glaring socioeconomic differences between Jewish and Arab population groups, particularly with regard to land, urban planning, housing, infrastructure, economic development, and education. Over half of the poor families in Israel are Arab families, and Arab municipalities constitute the poorest municipalities within Israel.
ACRI seeks to eradicate this socioeconomic inequality. Consequently, a majority of ACRI’s work regarding Arab equality involves the discrepancies in housing and infrastructure. ACRI engages in legal maneuvers and public advocacy to promote equality in housing and planning, to challenge discriminatory policies and decisions, to oppose home demolitions, to promote local planning efforts, and to encourage equal distribution of state resources. ACRI also seeks to ensure equal access to education, including the construction of Arabic schools in mixed and predominantly Arab cities. In addition, ACRI addresses a number of other issues in an attempt to ensure overall equality, including safeguarding the rights of Arab Knesset members and political parties, promoting the sufficient inclusion of Arab representatives in State bodies, protecting the freedom of expression, and opposing the legalization of racial profiling.
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ACRI Review of Knesset Winter Session
April 13, 2011
In recent years, ACRI has been increasingly troubled by expanding assaults on Israel’s democratic values. Of great concern is the … Read more
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Knesset Roundup | 28 March 2011
March 28, 2011
March 22 – March 30 2011 Recent Anti-Democratic Legislation March 22 | Acceptance to Communities Bill On … Read more
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Petition to the HCJ to Disqualify Acceptance to Communities Law
March 23, 2011
The Nakba Law and the Acceptance to Communities Law, part of the recent slew of anti-democratic legislation that ACRI has … Read more
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Final Vote Today on Nakba Law and Acceptance to Communities Bill
March 22, 2011
Two separate bills, two of the unfortunate “stars” of the recent slew of anti-democratic legislation that ACRI has been relentlessly … Read more
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Racial Discrimination in Airports: One, Not Unusual, Story
March 21, 2011
“I am telling you all of this so that you would know. That it happens here. To Arabs. All the … Read more